Objectives and competences
The objective of this course:
Awareness about the meaning of language.
To familiarize students with the basics of language planning, language culture and language management with special emphasis on bilingualism;
To demonstrate the teacher’s professional and linguistic responsibility; to formulate a positive attitude towards bilingual education;
To acknowledge theories about language genres.
To formulate ideas about expressive images inlanguage and functional use of language.
To familiarize students with language and sociocultural community coherence and with heterogenity in language.
To identify correlatations between sland and literary language system (contrastive analysis)
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Theories of language genres. Language definition from structural, functional, sociological and ontological point of view.
• Language planning, language culture and language management majorities and minorities (planning the status of a minority language, planning the learning process).
• Teaching the mother tongue and teaching in the mother tongue as the fundamental human right; content and implementation of this right.
• The linguistic situation of Hungarian on both parts of Hungary – the process of detrianonization of Hungarian and its consequences in bilingual education.
• Mother tongue and language of the environment (second language) in implementing national programs for individual courses in a bilingual education process – language competencies and responsibility of teachers.
• Vernacular language as a language in children communication.
• Problematics of professional language on various lingual levels in bilingual primary and secondary schools.
• The possibility of maintaining Hungarian (the minority language) in bilingual education.
Learning and teaching methods
• lecture
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
• explain the understanding of the basic functions of the language system and compare between the levels of language,
• use the understanding of the basic facts and basic units of the levels of language in the analysis of Hungarian texts of variuos types.
• Recognizing and understanding the fundamental terms of the branch.
Acquiring competences for a problem-based approach and to solve problems, and participating in a critical discussion.
• Understanding the term hungarian (minority) language from differents aspects, especially from
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Understanding the basic regularities of bilingualism and bilingual education.
A nyelvjárási nyelvhasználat mint módszertani lépés a standard nyelváltozat elsajátításában. Use of slang as a methodical procedure in literary (standard) language acquisition.
Readings
• Bernjak, Elizabeta 2004. Slovenščina in madžarščina v stiku. Maribor: Zora 29.
• Domonkosi, Ágnes - Lanstyák, István - Posgay Ildikó szerk. 2007. Műhelytanulmányok a nyelvművelésről. Dunaszerdahely-Budapest: Gramma Nyelvi Iroda-Tinta Könyvkiadó.
• Kolláth, Anna 2005. Magyarul a Muravidéken. Maribor: Zora 39.
• Kolláth, Anna 2012. A magyar nyelv a többnyelvűség kontextusában. Maribor: ZORA 92.
• Kontra, Miklós - Saly, Noémi szerk. 1998. Nyelvmentés vagy nyelvárulás? Vita a határon túli magyar nyelvhasználatról. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó.
• Péntek, János 2004. Anyanyelv és oktatás. Csíkszereda: Pallas-Akadémia Könyvkiadó.
