!nternationellt breddad rekryterings-seminarium hölls den 27 maj. Seminariet inleddes med ett samtal om det förnyade fokus breddad rekrytering fått nationellt och Malmö högskolas roll i det sammanhanget. Därefter presenterade John Storan, gästprofessor (SPS) i breddad rekrytering från University of East London, tillsammans med Michael Aldarondo-Jeffries, Program Director från University of Central Florida, det arbete med breddad rekrytering till forskarnivå som bedrivs vid deras universitet, lokalt och i samarbete universiteten emellan.
Month: May 2015
Patricia Staaf lägger fram licentiatavhandling i svenska som andraspråk
Vid licentiatseminariet i svenska språket, Linnéuniversitetet, lägger Patricia Staaf den 21 maj fram sin licentiatuppsats med titeln Som man frågar får man svar. Andraspråksstudenter möter lärares krav i hemtentor.
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Opponent är universitetslektor Gunlög Sundberg, Stockholms universitet och ordförande professor Gunilla Byrman, Linnéuniversitetet.
BA thesis awards in English Studies
The Swedish Society for the Study of English (SWESSE) – the umbrella organization for English Studies in Sweden – has just announced the winners of its recently created ‘BA thesis of the Year’ awards. Both of them (linguistics and literature, 2014) go to Malmö.
Congratulations Anne Blauenfeldt and Charles Simmons!
Watch this space for interviews, pictures and more information.
Lundic workshop
On May 4-6 the workshop Lexical and typological diversity in Caucasian languages. Methods and models for coding of big data was held at Linguistics (Center for Language and Literature, Lund University) and Caucasus Studies (Dept. of Language and Linguistics. Malmö University), as a part of research cooperation within the project LUNDIC – Lund Digital Atlas of Language and Culture (http://project2.sol.lu.se/lundic/). Project leader: Gerd Carling, Lund University.
Invited participants: Prof. Merab Chukhua, Tbilisi State University and Circassian Cultural Center, Georgia; Prof. Madzhid Khalilov, Institute of Language, Literature and Art, Dagestan branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Makhachkala, Russian Federation; Prof. Nadezda Alipulatova, Faculty of Foreign Languages Dagestan State Pedagogical University, Makhachkala, Russian Federation; Dr. Leila Avidzba, Scientific Research Center of Georgian-Abkhazian Relationships, Tbilisi State University, Georgia; Dr. Zarina Molochieva, Institute for Media, Language and Culture, Regensburg University, Germany.
Organisers: Gerd Carling (Lund University), Karina Vamling (Malmö University), Maka Tetradze (Malmö University)
New book by Fred Anderson, guest researcher at SPS
Education in Languages of Lesser Power
Asia-Pacific Perspectives
Edited by Craig Alan Volker and Fred E. AndersonDivine Word University, Papua New Guinea / Kansai University, Japan
Hardbound – Available
ISBN 9789027218766 | EUR 99.00 | USD 149.00
The cultural diversity of the Asia-Pacific region is reflected in a multitude of linguistic ecologies of languages of lesser power, i.e., of indigenous and immigrant languages whose speakers lack collective linguistic power, especially in education. This volume looks at a representative sampling of such communities. Some receive strong government support, while others receive none. For some indigenous languages, the same government schools that once tried to stamp out indigenous languages are now the vehicles of language revival. As the various chapters in this book show, some parents strongly support the use of languages other than the national language in education, while others are actively against it, and perhaps a majority have ambivalent feelings. The overall meta-theme that emerges from the collection is the need to view the teaching and learning of these languages in relation to the different needs of the speakers within a sociolinguistics of mobility.
Intervju i Universitetsläraren om breddad rekrytering
Tere
sa Tomasevic, ansvarig för det övergripande arbetet med breddad rekrytering vid Malmö högskola och prefekt för Institutionen för språkstudier, intervjuas i Universitetsläraren (nr 3, 2015). Hon framhåller bl a: “Ju mer mer mångfald vi har inom olika utbildningar desto bättre förberedda är studenterna på att verka i den föränderliga värld de skall möta”.