237090 Introduction to Applied Linguistics (S) (WiSe 2013/2014)

This course will address how language is learned and used and how we set about to investigate educational and social problems centred around language.
The major areas of focus will be: first and second language acquisition, bilingualism and bilingual education, approaches to language teaching, code-switching and language planning.

Literaturangaben

Adamson, Bob. 2004. Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology. In Davies, A. & C. Elder (eds). The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. pp. 604-622. Malden, MA, etc: Blackwell Publishers.
Chomsky, N. 1988. Language and problems of knowledge. The Managua Lectures. Cambridge, Massachussets: MIT.
Chomsky, N. 1993 1987 On the nature, use, and acquisition of language. Goldman, A. (ed.) Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. MIT Press. 511-534.
Gramley, S. & V. Gramley (eds.) 2008. Bielefeld Introduction to Applied Linguistics. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag.
Krashen, Stephen. 1982. Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition. Prentice-Hall International.
Littlewood. W. 2004 Second language learning. In Davies, A. & C. Elder (eds). The Handbook of Applied Linguistics. pp. 501 – 524. Malden, MA, etc: Blackwell Publishers.