MULTI2150 ¨C Project-based Research in Multilingualism

Course content

This course gives practical experience in project-based research, either through collaboration with partner institutions outside of the university or with on-going research in the Socio-Cognitive Lab. Students will apply basic research skills to a current case or problem related to multilingualism. Students will work in groups to explore and propose a solution to the case that they are presented with. This may include working with an educational institution, a social service institution, health care organization, international company, or other organization, to better understand and address challenges that they experience in relation to multilingualism.

Students will read literature that is relevant to the project they undertake, and that is selected in consultation with the teacher, up to 1000 pages maximum.

Learning outcome

Students will be able to:

• Apply linguistic theories and methods to a practical problem

• Execute a short-term research project in a group with the supervision of the teacher

• Present research results orally and in writing for both academic and professional audiences

Admission to the course

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Formal prerequisite knowledge

LING1109 ¨C Fleirspr?klegheit, LING1113 ¨C Psykolingvistikk og sosiolingvistikk or equivalent for BA students. Students without the required background courses may apply to enroll based on other relevant knowledge and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Overlapping courses

• 10 credits overlap with MULTI4150 ¨C Project-based Research in Multilingualism.

Teaching

The course consists of extensive group work on a project, under supervision by the course coordinator. Some weeks there will be supervised meetings with the instructor, and in other weeks students will organize their own work in each group.

Each student has to complete a required assignment given by the lecturer during the course of the seminar. The assignment must be approved by the lecturer before the student can take the final exam.

Access to teaching

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Approved compulsory activities are valid for the next term in which the course is offered

Examination

The exam is a portfolio consisting of two written papers (with individual evaluation) and an oral group examination (everyone in the group gets the same evaluation).

The lecturer will give the details about the submissions at the beginning of the semester.

Grading scale

Pass/ Fail?

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

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