GRADUATE PROGRAMME – Master of Education in English Language and Literature
SINGLE AND DOUBLE MAJOR PROGRAMMES
semester 3
Course title: BILINGUALISM
Course coordinator: Assistant Professor Stela Letica Krevelj
Lecturer: Assistant Professor Stela Letica Krevelj
ECTS credits: 5
Language of instruction: English
Duration: semester III
Status: elective
Form of instruction: 2 hours of lectures + 2 hours of seminar
Prerequisites: —
Examination: continual assessment
Contents:
Definitions of bilingualism; overview of research in the field; relationship between individual and social bilingualism; dynamics of bilingual development (in natural and institutionalized contexts); language processing in bilingual individuals; crosslinguistic interaction within the bilingual system; communicative competence of bilinguals; monolingual and bilingual modes; code switching; language attrition; bilingualism and cognition; bilingualism and education.
Objectives:
Getting an insight into basic processes of bilingual development, specific aspects of linguistic and communicative competence of bilinguals and bilingual education.
Literature (selected chapters):
Aronin, L., & Singleton, D. (2012). Multilingualism (Vol. 30). John Benjamins Publishing.
Auer, P., & Wei, L. (Eds.).(2007). Handbook of multilingualism and multilingual communication (Vol. 5). Walter de Gruyter.
Cenoz, J., Hufeisen, B., & Jessner, U. (2003). The multilingual lexicon. Springer Netherlands.
Cenoz, J. (2009). Towards multilingual education: Basque educational research from an international perspective (Vol. 72). Multilingual Matters.
Helot, C.,&O’Laoire, M. (2011). Language Policy for the Multilingual Classroom. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Todeva, E., & Cenoz, J. (Eds.). (2009). The multiple realities of multilingualism: Personal narratives and researchers’ perspectives (Vol. 3). Walter de Gruyter.
Journals: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, International Journal of Multilingualism, Language Awareness, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
