General information
| Course type | EPICUR hybrid |
| Module title | Bilingualism in education |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Anna Ewert |
| Lecturer's email | aewert@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | associate professor |
| Faculty | Faculty of English |
| Semester | 2025/2026 (winter) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 4 |
| USOS code | 5-BIE-EC-W |
Timetable
as announced by the Faculty
Module aim (aims)
This course will be based on the Erasmus+ TEAM project course. The project aimed to develop materials to educate teachers and other education professionals, as well as other persons working with migrants, refugees and minority students about relevant aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, combining different research perspectives of the partners and different social and cultural contexts of bilingualism and multilingualism across the partnership. More about the project: https://team.amu.edu.pl/
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Genuine interest in bilingualism and multilingualism.
Syllabus
After a brief introduction, emphasizing the relevance of bilingualism and multilingualism research for educators, the course will be divided into four thematic modules:
- Linguistic approaches to multilingualism, including types of multilingual development, problems with the native speaker, language development in typical and atypical populations;
- Neurocognitive processes in multilingualism and language acquisition, including the multilingual mind and brain, the impact of multilingualism on the native language, acquiring L2 concepts, working memory;
- Social and cultural aspects of multilingualism, including family language policy, language shift and maintenance, integration of migrants and refugees;
- Multilingual education: including models, approaches and strategies, as well as the development of academic language.
Evaluation will be based on active participation in class discussions, group projects and a final quiz.