Language and literacy in migration context
International school organised under the framework of Blended Intensive Programme (BIP), 2023-2024
Organising institution:
Department of Romance languages and literatures, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Contact person: Egle Mocciaro, egle.mocciaro@mail.muni.cz
Partner institutions:
University of Bergen
Participant to be sent: 3 students (2 MA, 1 Ph.D.)
Contact person: Ann-Kristin Helland Gujord, Ann-Kristin.Gujord@uib.no
Teachers: Ann-Kristin Helland Gujord
Østfold University College, Norway
Participants to be sent: 1 student (Ph.D.)
Contact person: Åshild Søfteland, ashild.softeland@hiof.no
Teachers: Åshild Søfteland, Linda Emilsen, linda.e.emilsen@hiof.no
University of Cyprus
Participant to be sent: 5 students (MA, Ph.D.; could open to Bachelor)
Contact person: Sviatlana Karpava, karpava.sviatlana@ucy.ac.cy
Teachers: Sviatlana Karpava
University of Porto
Participant to be sent: 7 students (MA, Ph.D.; could open to Bachelor)
Contact persons: Rui Alexandre Alves, ralves@fpce.up.pt; José Pedro Amorim, jpamorim@fpce.up.pt
Teachers: Rui Alexandre Alves
Boğaziçi University, Instanbul
Participant to be sent: 2 students (MA; could open to Bachelor if needed)
Contact person: Belma Haznedar, belma.haznedar@gmail.com
Teachers: Belma Haznedar, Işıl Erduyan, isilerduyan@gmail.com
University of Potsdam
Paticipant to be sent: up to 10 students
Contact persons: Marta Lupica Spagnolo, lupica@uni-potsdam.de
Teachers: Marta Lupica Spagnolo, Christoph Schroeder, schroedc@uni-potsdam.de;)
Implementation period
In-presence phase: 3-7 June 2024
Virtual phase: April-May 2024 (3 seminars)
Credits: 5 ECTS
Description of the course
The course combines five in-person days in Brno in the spring of 2024 and an online teaching path taking place at the end of April and early May. The in-person segment, hosted in the rooms of the Faculty of Arts, consists of lectures and workshops.
The lectures will be held by teachers of the programme, both local and from BIP partner institutions, and will address from different and complementary perspectives (theoretical, sociolinguistic, educational) the nuclear themes of the course: language, literacy and migration. In particular, the lectures will focus on crucial but as yet little explored topics such as the dynamics of multilingualism in a European and migration context, the notion of literacy and its different types, the role of literacy skills in the development of non-mother tongues, research ethics.
The different thematic blocks will be complemented by peer-to-peer workshop activities, in which students will be asked to enter into and comment on documents, case studies and problems directly related to the topics covered. The results of this work will then be presented and discussed in plenary.
In addition to lectures and peer work, some workshop sections in the strict sense are included in the project. Unlike the peer workshops, these sections are led by a trainer and consist of direct immersion and familiarisation in new languages and writing systems, and autobiographical narration of multilingualism experiences. In all three cases, these are experiential and didactic declinations (according to the principle of immersive didactics and learning by doing) of themes that have been given ample consideration in the relevant scientific literature in recent years.
The course will be completed by a direct experience of the city’s linguistic diversity, with a workshop with local experts and scholars of Vietnamese and Romani languages (and eventually writing system).
If you are interested in applying, please fill in the Application Form below until 31.03.2024!
All fields of the application must be written in English!
Registrations are closed.