Entry requirements

Prerequisite course for this course is: EL616E English and Education: Language Teaching in Theory and Practice II

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

This course is part of the English and Education Master’s Programme.

Course contents

Students will expand their knowledge of linguistic variation and linguistic norms. Students will also acquire an advanced understanding of the relationship between linguistic variation and language teaching.'

The course deals with linguistic variation and linguistic norms from a sociolinguistic perspective. Topics include language and gender, power and regional variations in English as an international contact language. The relationship between identity and language is also explored. Various digital tools are used to study linguistic variation. Issues in linguistic variation are analysed in relation to language teaching and language teaching materials.

Learning outcomes

On completing the course, the student will be able to:

• critically evaluate linguistic variation in relation to various factors such as location, class, gender and ethnicity,
• use digital tools critically to study language use and linguistic variation,
• draw theoretically grounded conclusions on language teaching and the selection of teaching materials.

Learning activities

The course includes various learning activities such as seminars, lectures, independent study and group work.

Assessment

The course is assessed through an oral and written examination.

Grading criteria for the course are announced by the course coordinator at the start of the course.

The basis for all assessments must be such that individual performance can be distinguished.

Course literature

Hornberger, Nancy & McKey, Sandra Lee. (2010). Sociolinguistics and Language Education. Toronto: Multilingual Matters. 560 s.

Additional selected research articles, approximately 200 pages.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.