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Week 1
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Introduction to Course, Syllabus
Layout, Lecture Schedule, exam guidelines
a) Bilingualism
i) Where does
bilingualism come from?
ii) Linguistics: what
they know and don’t know
iii) Why so many
languages
(1) The rationale
iv) Why bilingualism
matters
v) Practical
considerations
(Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Page 1-16)
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Assignment 1:
Summary
Deadline
10 March (week 3)
Marks 5%
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Assignment 2
Summary
Deadline
7 April
Marks 5%
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Week 2
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Introducing Language
and Dialect. What ‘social work’ do they do?
a · What is a
language?
· Mutual
Intelligibility
· Dialects as
groupings under a language
· The written
language and dialects
· Identifying the
standard dialect
· Who speaks a
dialect
(Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 2, Page 16-34)
b · Discourse model
of language
· What is Standard
English?
· Fuzzy boundaries
of languages
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, Chapter 3, Page 27-38)
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Week 3
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Bilingualism and multilingualism
a
i) Introduction
ii) Who is a
bilingual or Multilingual?
iii) Defining
Bilingualism
iv) Defining
Multilingualism
v) Factors promoting
these –isms
(Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 3, Page 35-66)
b) Bilingualism and
Multilingualism: Some Central Concepts
(Article
1 – Johan Edwards, Page 5-24)
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3a. Shumaila Zamn
3b Rabab Zahra
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3a. Yasir Riaz
3b Adnan Ijaz
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Week 4
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Approaches to Study:
a) Studying
Bilinguals
i) Methodological
and Conceptual Issues
(The
Handbook of Bilingualism, Chapter 2, Page 32-66)
b) Studying Societal
Multilingualism
i) The construction
of Meaning
ii) Dominant vs.
critical readings
iii) Ethnographically
based discourse analysis
iv) The study of
language ideologies
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, Chapter 2, Page 12-24
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4a Yasir Riaz
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4a Nafeesa Khansa
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Week 5
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Acquisition
a) Early Bilingual and
multilingual Acquisition
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 1, Page 15-44)
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5a Adnan Ijad
5a Sahrish Manzoor
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5a Tehreem Ijaz
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Week 6
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Code Switching, Mixing and Speech
Accommodation
a) Code-switching as a
conversational strategy
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, chapter 11, 279-314)
b) Code Switching
and Grammatical Theory
(The
Handbook of Bilingualism, Chapter 11, Page 283-311)
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6a Majid Ali
6b Umair Tariq
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6a Sadia Saba
6b Amber Firdous
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Week 7
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a) Mixed codes
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 11, 315-340)
b) Social and
Psychological Factors in Language Mixing
(The
Handbook of Bilingualism, Chapter 13, page 336-352)
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7b. Khurram
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7b Sajida Jaben
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Week 8
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a) Multilingual forms of
talk and identity work
Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 13, page) (341-370
b) The social
motivation for language use in interpersonal interactions (Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 6, page 142-174)
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8a Asma Rashid
8b Amber
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8a Asad Ishaq
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Week 9
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Mid Term Exam
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Week 10
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a) Multilingualism and
the family
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 2, 45-68)
b) Multilingualism in
the workplace
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 16, 405-422)
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10a Shumaila Zamn
10b Asma Rashid
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Week 11
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a) Multilingualism and
specific language impairment (SLI)
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 9, page 229-246)
b) Bilingual Aphasia
(The Handbook of
Bilingualism, chapter 3, page 71-89)
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11a Sadia Saba
11b Asad Ishaq
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11b Sadia Rafique
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Week 12
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a-i) Societal
multilingualism
(Introducing Multilingualism
- A Social Approach, chapter 6, page 69-81)
a-ii) Societal
multilingualism
(Sociolinguistics
and Language Teaching – Chapter 2, page 47-70
B) Societal multilingualism:
reality, recognition and response
(Handbook
of Multilingualism and Multilingual Communication, Chapter 18, Page 447-468)
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12aii Nafeesa Khunsa
12b. Tehreem Ijaz
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12aii Umair Tariq
12b. Majid Ali
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Week 13
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a) Language and
Identities
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, chapter 7, page 82-94)
b) Ideologies and
attitudes
(Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 5, page 107-141)
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13b Sahrish Manzoor
13b Sadia Rafique
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Week 14
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a) Language Planning and Policy
(Sociolinguistics
and Language Teaching – Chapter 4, page 103-148
b) Language policies
and globalization
(Multiple Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter, 13,
369-411)
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14a. Rabab Zahra
14b. Khurram Shahzad
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Week 15
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a) Language
maintenance and Shift
(Multiple
Voices: An Introduction to Bilingualism, Chapter 4, page 67-106)
b) Language Contact
& Language Death
(Reading to be
confirmed)
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15a. Sajida Jabeen
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Week 16
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a) Language
Variation and the spread of global languages
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, Chapter 4, Page 39-52)
b) Revitalization of
endangered languages
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, chapter 5, 53-66)
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Week 17
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Multilingual Education
a) Mother tongue
education
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, Chapter 10, page 123-135)
b) Heritage language
Education
(Introducing
Multilingualism - A Social Approach, Chapter 11, page 136-148)
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Week 18
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Final Exams
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