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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Ass-Prof. i.R. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Philip-Martin Herdina Ass-Prof. i.R. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Philip-Martin Herdina

609649

English Usage and/or Applied Linguistics

VO 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The lecture will provide an introduction to and overview of the main fields of applied linguistics. These will include established so-called, 'hyphen-linguistic' categories such as sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics as well as more specific topics including language planning, language change, societal and individual multilingualism. Particular attention will be paid to issues of language learning and language teaching in a multilingual context.

overview of the methods and fields of applied linguistics+language as the object of scientific inquiry+methodology and language data+language data as a cognitive construct and fait sociale+langauge as a system verss language as a means of communication+diachronic and synchronic perspectives on language+linguistic diversity:dialect versus national language+differentiaton and standardization of languages+linguistic diversity:dialect,sociolect,idiolect+sociolinguistics and language change+language contact and the growth of English+language norm and insitutionalization+purism versus pragmatism+institutionalized langauge learning versus (natural) language acqusition+the psycho- and neurolnguistics of first language acqusition+linguistic and cognitive development+language achievement and language defects+monlngual misunderstandings+second and third language acqusition+theores of language growth+nature versus nurture+dynamic modeling and complexity theory on growth and change+ the acquisition and spread of multilingualism+langauge learning vs. langauge teaching+ implementing learning through actiivities,tasks and goals+assessing skills and compteneces+language testing and language assessment in accordance with the European Framework

lecture,slides,online resources

Course requirements: final written examination and script

Recommended reading: Aitchison Jean, Linguistics, Teach Yourself Books, Hodder and Stoughton Carter Ronald, Introducing Applied Linguistics, Harmondsworth 1993 Guy Cook, Applied Linguistics, Oxford Introductions to Language Study, Oxford University Press 2003 Alan Davies, An Introduction to Applied Linguistics, Edinburgh University Press 1999 P.H.Matthews, Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2003 Peter Trudgill, Sociolinguistics. An Introduction to Language and Society, Penguin 2003

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: pror attendance of History of English and Synchronic Linguistics recommended Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): VO 1: Applied Linguistics (Survey) + VO 1: English Phonetics and Phonology Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): NUR VO 1: Applied Linguistics (Survey). Für Lehramtsstudium (344) wird VO 1 English Phonetics and Phonology weiterhin als eigene Lehrveranstaltung angeboten.
Beginn: 11. Oktober 2012