MULTI4170 – Multilingualism Specialisation B
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The academic theme of this course changes from semester to semester, but all specialisations provide students with deeper knowledge of the fundamentals of recent research on cognitive and psychological approaches language and communication, with a special focus on multilingualism. This will include one or more research fields, such as cognitive approaches to language acquisition, language processing, statistical modeling of linguistic processes, clinical linguistics, language assessment or other current trends in research.
Spring 2024:
Early language development (0-4 years): Theory and Methods.” In this course, we will examine the main milestones in early language acquisition - from 0 to 4 years of age - in monolingual, bilingual and bidialectal infants and toddlers, factors that shape their development (parental/language input, media, book reading, etc.), and methods/tools that can be used to assess early language skills, including parental reports, behavioral (e.g., habituation, intermodal looking preference), neural (EEG, fNIRS) and eye-tracking methods. Lectures on the theory of early language development and seminars on methods will alternate. The seminars will be mostly run as hands-on sessions, where students will learn how to design a research task and implement it on an experimental platform/software. We will use e-Babylab and Experiment Builder (Eye-link) as support.
Learning outcome
Students will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of one or more specialised approaches to research on multilingualism
- Explain the central theories and concepts of these specialised approaches
- Critically consider the relevance of these approaches to an area of research that students are may explore in their thesis
Admission to the course
Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.
Recommended previous knowledge
No formal requirements. It is an advantage if students have completed MULTI4100 Theoretical Foundations of Multilingualism; and/or LING4140 Research Methods for Language. If space is available, it is possible to take the course without this background however.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with ILNMULTI4130 – Linguistics Specialization B (discontinued).
Teaching
10 double lectures
Students should participate actively in all sessions. Students must attend a minimum of 75% of sessions in order to receive credit for the course.
Approved compulsory activities are valid for the next two terms in which the course is offered.
Examination
Term paper: Each student writes an assignment of approximately 10 pages in length (2300 characters without spaces per page); details of the assignment will be provided in class
Language of examination
You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
A term paper or equivalent that is passed may not be resubmitted in revised form.
If you?withdraw from the exam?after the deadline, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.