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160160 PS Mit Musik geht alles besser: the role of music / song in foreign language learning research (2023W)

Current trends in language teaching and learning

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work
ON-SITE
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German, English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 06.10. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 13.10. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 20.10. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 27.10. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 03.11. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 10.11. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 17.11. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 24.11. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 01.12. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 15.12. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 12.01. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 19.01. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Friday 26.01. 12:00 - 13:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Recently there is an increasing interest into the overlap between music, song and language learning, the role music/singing and/or musicality plays in language learning and teaching, not only as a motivation boost, but also more generically as regards the underlying phylogenetic (evo) and ontogenetic (neuro) commonalities of both domains/systems. This proseminar wants to tap into these connections and discuss recent trends in this research and enable students to perform own research in this area.

The course participants will, ideally in small groups for the literature research and independently or in team work (two), use a mixed methods approach (qualitative + quantitative methods (statistics), online questionnaires, interviews, field research whenever possible).
The course is suited for students interested into research of musical properties of language teaching and learning, music/song, plurilingualism/multilingualism or psychology of language learning. The course is empirical with a small own research project involved. It should render the course participants sensitive towards new methodological paradigms and try exploring new methods or the ones already acquired in the course of their previous studies.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written end term paper and 2 oral presentations.
(40% talks, 40% paper, 20% discussion participation)
The course should be interactive and practical (performing literature search and experiments) with elaborating own projects (presentation of a preferred topic chosen from the topic of the seminar). This will be chosen during the first 14 days after a brain storming period in the first two sessions, thus fixed in the second/third session. Additionally there is a "presenter's day", a first series of mini presentations as result of the literature search (alone or in focus groups, but everyone has to present). Students discuss and present their findings and research results in class (second presentation) and write a final paper about their research topic.
The use of AI (artificial intelligence) tools to generate texts for the PS paper is generally not allowed.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active participation in classes (max. 2 sessions missing! =180min max missing time), 2 presentations: theory literature research, field research, presentation of field research in class, application of explorative qualitative and/or quantitative methods, round table discussions, active contribution of own ideas, final proseminar individual end-term paper (app. 20-25 pages). The exact page and word counts are fixed in class.

Examination topics

see above in Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Reading list

Literature: Buch
The Palgrave handbook of applied linguistics research methodology. (2018) edited by Plonsky, Luke; De Costa, Peter I.; Phakiti, Aek; Starfield, Sue. London:Palgrave Macmillan;Ann Arbor.
https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC15281274
More literature forthcoming and will be provided on Moodle and during classes.

Association in the course directory

BA-M12
MA2-APM4B-4

Last modified: Fr 27.10.2023 21:07