Anmeldung an: englischdidaktik@hu-berlin.de Both bi- and multilingualism and bi- or plurilingual education are individual and social phe-nomena at the same time. Thus the course will look at the following concepts relevant to future teachers and at the situations they will be confronted with every day: · first and second language, strong and weak language(s), balanced bilinguals, receptive and productive bilingualism, language attrition, cognitive functioning (impairment and reserve) · simultaneous v. sequential / consecutive bilingualism, strategies for bilingual education in the family: home language v. local language, one person-one language; parents / caregivers as „teachers“. motherese, language teaching techniques, intentional / „artificial“ bilingua-lism (= home immersion) · additive v. subtractive bilingualism, literacy, semi-lingualism, language and thought (= verbal thought), code-switching v. code-mixing; BICS v. CALP, street v. school language, interdependence and threshold hypotheses, CUP v. SUP; risk factors for academic achievement (insights from PISA and DESI), deprived / vulnerable learners · first, second and foreign languages in society and bi- / plurilingual education; diglossia in nation states; language policies in Europe and beyond, English as a „killer language“?; bilingual schooling issues (CLIL / EMILE, variants of immersion) · the Berlin Europe-School (an experimental school project in dual / two-way immersion), the role of partner tongues, curricular planning (topic web & leporello), content-obligatory language, language across the curriculum; the intercultural dimension · bilingual university courses, „Studierfähigkeit“ and general academic proficiency in L2 Recommended pre-reading: Colin Baker (2006): Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. You are expected to attend regularly, prepare an oral presentation, upload your slides on the moodle platform and use English in class. Depending on the regulations you can hand in a written assignment by mid-August 2013 (if you decide to write it in this field). |
