Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Applied Linguistics
- Code
- BMI-ANGD-CAn17E.01
- Title
- Language Policy: Language Education Policies in the EU and Hungary
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The aims of the course are to develop students’ ability to contextualize national and EU-level language policy in the social, political and economic background, and to help them understand the nuances of HU and EU language policies and their effects on society. Students will get insight into the major language education issues, and by the end of the course, they will be able to analyse their own language learning paths in the light of the relevant EU and Hungarian regulations and tendencies.
- Course content
- This course consists of two parts: the beginning of the course provides the context and background knowledge for a deeper and empirical analysis of language policy in the EU and Hungary. First, the course is concerned with the social, cultural, political and economic context of language policies: we will look at the relationship between language policy and identity, sense of nationhood, globalization, English as a lingua franca, and the potential tension between promotion of national language(s) and regional integration. In the second part of the course we will focus on language education policy; the main aspects (regulations, planning, implementation, monitoring, case studies) will be discussed in the European and Hungarian contexts. Special attention will be paid to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and other major European documents to identify the present trends and tendencies, and these considerations will serve as grounds for the more specific, nation-level elaborations. The discussions on language education policy will heavily build on the participants’ own language learning and test-taking experiences.
- Assessment method
- Requirements that will serve as grounds for grading: preparation for and participation in class, attendance (max. three absences), completion of both in class and home assignments (mid-term test, poster presentation, further minor tasks), and keeping up with readings.
- Bibliography
- Main compulsory readings: 1) Common European framework of reference for languages: Learning, teaching, assessment. (2001). Strasbourg: Council of Europe. Retrieved from http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/source/framework_en.pdf 2) Europeans and their languages. (2012). European Commission. Brussels: Eurobarometer. Retrieved from http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf 3) Forche, C. R. (2012). On the emergence of Euro-English as a potential European variety of English: Attitudes and interpretations, Jezikoslovlje 13(2). 4) Key data on teaching languages at school in Europe, 2012 Edition. (2012). Retrieved from http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/education/eurydice./documents/key_data_series/143EN.pdf 5) Medgyes, P. & Öveges, E. (2004): Paved with good intentions: Foreign language policy in Hungary. In C. Dobos, Á. Kis, Y. Lengyel, G. Székely & S. Tóth (Eds.), Mindent fordítunk és mindenki fordít - Értékek teremtése és közvetítése a nyelvészetben (pp. 279-290). 6) Nikolov, M. & Szabo´, G. (2015). A study on Hungarian 6th and 8th graders’ proficiency in English and German at dual-language schools. In D. Hollo´ & K. Ka´roly (Eds.), Inspirations in foreign language teaching: Studies in applied linguistics, language pedagogy and language teaching (pp. 184-206). Harlow: Pearson Education. 7) Öveges, E. (2016). Language education policy unveiled: The framework of foreign language teaching at schools in Hungary and the European perspective. Manuscript in preparation. 8) Pennycook, A. (2003). Beyond homogeny and heterogeny: English as a global and worldly language. In C. Mair (ed.), The politics of English as a world language. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 9) Schiffman, H. F. (1996). Linguistic culture and language policy. London: Routledge. 10) Spolsky, B. (2004). Language policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.