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122251 AR Advanced Course in Linguistics (2021W)

Applied Linguistic: English-medium education: language policies & practices in higher education

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
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. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

ONSITE (in SR5)
NEW from Nov 22 (till end of semester): due to Covid-19 all classes will take place online

  • Tuesday 05.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 12.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 19.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 09.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 16.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 23.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 30.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 07.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 14.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 11.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 18.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Tuesday 25.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

ONSITE

The so-called “Bologna Process” of internationalising tertiary education has not only resulted in the three-level architecture of study programmes (bachelor/master/doctorate), but has also changed and strengthened the relevance of English at higher education institutions (HEIs) outside the Anglophone world. Besides teaching English language classes, English is increasingly used as medium of education, language of administration, and of doing and disseminating research, i.e. as language for academic purposes. From a sociolinguistic point of view this means that our universities are no longer the largely monolingual institutions they used to be, but have entered an era of de facto bi/multilingualism . In how far is this multilingualism made visible and constructed online? How do institutions react to or support the presence of English and other languages in their policy statements and other online texts? What does English-medium education look like across HEIs and different academic disciplines? What kind of English is taught and/or used? It is questions like these that we will deal with in the Advanced Course, which focuses on the dynamic complexity of English Medium Education in Multilingual University Settings (EMEMUS).
Based on the ROAD-MAPPING framework developed for researching and working with EMEMUS, we will approach the topic in three phases, approaching it from a different angle each time, i.e. internationalisation and language policy in higher education, the roles of English and other languages in education, and classroom practices across different academic disciplines. Each of these phases will combine a literature-focused part based on selected readings and an empirical part, in which all participants will collect relevant information from selected HEIs. More precisely, each participant will select one or two HEIs as their research site(s) that they will use for collecting EMEMUS-related data for each of the three phases. By applying research methods introduced in the course, each student will then analyse their own data, share their findings orally in class and write it up in the form of a short research report. Each student’s reports and data make up their moodle-based ROAD-MAPPING portfolio

Assessment and permitted materials

Course evaluation will be based on
• class participation and assignment (max. 7 points)
• data collection (max. 15 points)
• literature search (max. 12 points)
• 3 oral presentations (max 15 points)
• 3 research reports (max. 45 points)
• ROAD-MAPPING portfolio (max. 6 points)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements:
[dropping out of course is possible till October 31]
a) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences)
b) collecting 3 sets of data
c) giving at least 2 short presentations (on set dates)
d) submitting 3 research reports (by set dates)
e) attaining 60 of the maximum 100 points

Course evaluation will be based on:
* class participation and assignments (max. 7 points)
* data collection (max. 15 points)
* literature search (max. 12 points)
* 3 oral presentations (max. 15 points)
* 3 research reports (max. 45 points)
* ROAD-MAPPING portfolio (max. 6 points)

Final grades & points achieved: ‘1’: 90-100; ‘2’: 80-89; ‘3’: 70-79; ‘4’: 60-69; ‘5’: 0-59

Examination topics

Presentations, research reports, engagement in discussion and group work, assignments

Reading list

Dafouz, Emma; Smit, Ute. 2020. ROAD-MAPPING English medium education in the internationalised university. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. chs. 2+3.
Hultgren, Anna Kristina; Jensen, Christian; Dimova, Slobodanka; 2015. English-medium instruction in European higher education: From the north to the south. In: Dimova, Slobodanka; Hultgren, Anna Kristina; Jensen, Christian (Eds.) 2015. English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education. Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1-15.
Knight, Jane. 2013. The changing landscape of higher education internationalisation – for better or worse? Perspective: Policy and Practice in Higher Education 17(3): 84–90, DOI: 10.1080/13603108.2012.753957
Murata, Kumiko; Iino, Masakazu. 2018. EMI in higher education: an ELF perspective. In: Jenkins, Jennifer; Baker, Will; Dewey, Martin (eds.). The Routledge handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. New York: Routledge, 400-412.
Saarinen, Taina; Nikula, Tarja. 2013. Implicit policy, invisible language: policies and practices of international degree programmes in Finnish higher education. In: Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel (eds.) English-medium instruction at universities: global challenges. Bristol: Multilingual Matter, 131-150.
Selvi, Ali Fuad. 2020. Qualitative content analysis. In McKinley, Jim, & Rose, Heath (eds.). The Routledge handbook of research methods in applied linguistics. London: Routledge, 440-453.
Smit, Ute. 2018. Beyond monolingualism in higher education A language policy account In: Jenkins, Jennifer; Baker, Will; Dewey, Martin (eds.). The Routledge handbook of English as a Lingua Franca. New York: Routledge, 387-399.

Association in the course directory

Studium: MA 812 [2]; UF MA 046/507
Code/Modul: MA M04, MA M05, UF MA 4B
Lehrinhalt: 12-0260

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