ALM5510A - Language Maintenance in Practice

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Not offered in 2007

Aims
On completion of this unit students should have:

applied their knowledge of language maintenance strategies;
developed an ability to implement language maintenance programs appropriate to particular language endangerment settings internationally

Objectives

On completion of this unit students should be able to:
draw on in-depth and critical knowledge of the literature in this field to write a literature review;
formulate a detailed proposal to develop a language maintenance project;
plan the stages in carrying out research in an endangered language community or an organisational setting;
apply appropriate methodologies to implement research questions;
undertake independent research;
analyse primary data;
write a thesis based on original research.

Minor thesis (16000 words): 100%.

(Supervised)