Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
Students are required to have a proficient level of oral and written English in order to fulfill the course requirements sucessfully. A minimum of a C1 us required.
Topic 1 Introducing Sociolinguistics. Key concepts.
Topic 2 Qualitative Sociolinguistics. A Critical Perspective
Topic 3 Bilingual and Multilingual Language Practices
Topic 4 Monolingualism, Bilingualism and Multilingualism in
the Articulation of Nations and States
Topic 5 Globalization, Language Diversity, and Inequality
Topic 6 The Value of Language in the Economy
Topic 7 Language Skills in the Workplace
Topic 8 Language and Identity
Topic 9 Language Power, Ideology and Agency
Topic 10 English in Multilingual World Contexts
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Assigned readings | 17 | 0.68 | 9, 4 |
Assignments | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 3, 12, 6, 8, 7, 13, 10, 4, 11 |
Discuss assigned readings | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 12, 8, 9, 4, 11 |
Final assignment | 22 | 0.88 | 13, 9, 4 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Preparation to undertake practical exercises | 11 | 0.44 | 13, 9, 4 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Practical exercises of analysis | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 3, 12, 5, 8, 7, 13, 9, 10, 11 |
IN RELATION TO THE COVID HEALTH CRISIS: In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
The final grade of the course will be calculated
Recuperation
A grade below a 4 on the final paper can be redone.
All work submitted that receives a grade of a 4 or above will b e included in the calculation of the average for the final grade. -
Assignments and exercises in class can not be resubmitted.
The maximum grade for resubmission of final paper is 6
The final grade of the final paper that has been resubmitted will be the new mark even when this is a lower mark than obgtained previously.
If the student fails on the resubmission of the final paper he can pass the subject as long as the global average is equal to or greater than 5.
VERY IMPORTANT: Total or partial plagiarism of any of the evaluatioin items will automatically be considered a “fail” (0 points ) for the plagiarized item. Plagiarism isinvolves copying one or more sentences from unidentified sources, presenting it as original work (THIS INCLUDES COPYING PHRASES OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE INTERNET AND ADDING THEM WITHOUT MODIFICATION TO A TEXT WHICH IS PRESENTED AS ORIGINAL). Plagiarism is a serious offense. Students must learn to respect the intellectual property of others, identifying any source they may use, and take responsibility for the originality and authenticity of the texts they produce.
GRADE REVISION: Lecturers will inform students (via the Moodle) of the procedures to be followed, the place, and the dates for reviewing all grades awarded for assignments.
REQUIRED WORK: Students will not obatin a grade for the course unless they have submitted more than 70% of the assessment items.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Assignments | 30 | 40 | 1.6 | 1, 2, 3, 13, 9, 4 |
Class participation and forums of debate | 30 | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 2, 12, 8, 7, 13, 10, 4, 11 |
Final paper | 40 | 10 | 0.4 | 6, 5, 8, 7, 13, 10, 4, 11 |
Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 224Pp.
Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 229 Pp.
Bex, Tony & Richard J. Watts (eds.). 1999. Standard English. The Widening Debate. London:Routledge, 312 Pp.
Billig, Michael. 1995. Banal Nationalism. London:Sage, 197 Pp.
Blommaert, Jan. 2003. Commentary: A sociolinguistics of globalization. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7/4: 607-623.
Blommaert, Jan and Jef Verschueren. 1998. The “migrant” problem. In Jan Blommaert and Jef Verschueren Debating Diversity. London: Routledge.
Brutt-Griffler, Janina. 2002. World English. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 216 Pp.
Cameron, Deborah. 2000. Good to Talk? London: Sage Publications, 213Pp.
Cameron, Deborah. 2000. Styling the worker: Gender and the commodification of language in the globalized service economy. Journal of Sociolinguistics 4/3:323-347.
Coupland, Nikolas, Srikant Sarangi, & Cristopher Candlin (eds.). 2001. Sociolinguistics and Social Theory. London: Longman.
Gellner, E. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Oxford:Blackwell.
Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Pp. 256 Pp.
Hill, Jane. Published on the web pages http://languageculture.binghamton.edu/symposia/2/part1/index.html and to see the pictures in the article consult the address below:http://www.deaflibrary.org/nakamura/courses/linguisticanthro/hill1995slides/
Hobsbawm, E. J. 1992. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hutchinson, John& Anthony D. Smith (eds.). 1994. Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 378Pp.
Inda, Jonathan Xavier & Renato Rosaldo (eds.).2002. The Anthropology of Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell, 498 Pp.
Joseph, John E. Language and Identity. National, Ethnic and Religious. 2004. London: Palgrave, 268 Pp.
Lippi Green, Rosina. 1997. English with an Accent. London: Routledge, 286 Pp.
Milroy, James. 1999. The Consequences of Standardization in Discriptive Linguistics. In Bex, Tony & Richard J. Watts (eds.). Standard English. The Widening Debate. London: Routledge, Pp. 13-39.
Moyer, Melissa & Luisa Martin Rojo. 2007. Language, Migration and Citizenship: New Challenges in the Regulation of Bilingualism. In Monica Heller (ed.) Bilingualism. Social Approaches. London: Palgrave, 36 Pp.
Muehlmann, Shaylih & Alexandre Duchêne. 2007. Beyond the nation-state: international agencies as new sites of discourses on bilingualism. In Monica
Heller (ed.) Bilingualism. Social Approaches. London: Palgrave, 13Pp.
Pennycook, Alastair. 1998. English and the Discourses of Colonialism. London: Routledge, 239 Pp.
Pujolar, Joan. 2007. Bilingualism and the Nation-State in the Post-national Era. In Monica Heller (ed.) Bilingualism. Social Approaches. London: Palgrave,
Stroud, Cristopher. 2007. Bilingualism: Colonialism and postcolonialism. In Monica
Heller (ed.) Bilingualism. Social Approaches. London: Palgrave, 36 Pp.
Sutton, John. 2006. Globalization: A European perspective. In Anthony Giddens, Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle (eds.) Global Europe, Social Europe.Cambridge: Polity Press, 37-51Pp..
Urciuoli, Bonnie. 1996. Exposing Prejudice. Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race and Class. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 222 Pp.
Woolard, Kathryn. Language ideology as a field of inquiry. In Schieffelin, Bambi, Kathryn Woolard & Paul Kroskrity (eds.). 1998. Language Ideologies. Practice and Theory. Oxford:Oxford University Press, Pp. 3-27.
Zentella, Ana Celia. 1997. Growing up Bilingual. Oxford: Blackwell, 322 Pp.