Section: Teaching Objectives and Skills to be developed | Linguistics | UDBKM

Section outline

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  General Objectives
  
  The course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of key sociolinguistic phenomena, especially diglossia, bilingualism, code-switching, and borrowing, and to develop their ability to analyze language contact and variation in multilingual contexts.
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  Specific Objectives
  
  By the end of the course, students should be able to:
  
  Define diglossia, bilingualism, code-switching, borrowing, and variationist sociolinguistics.
  
  Distinguish between these concepts and explain how they are related.
  
  Describe the social functions of language choice in multilingual communities.
  
  Identify examples of diglossia and bilingualism in real speech situations.
  
  Recognize and analyze code-switching in spoken and written discourse.
  
  Explain borrowing as a result of language contact.
  
  Understand the basic principles of variationist sociolinguistics.
  
  Observe how language varies according to social factors such as class, gender, age, and context.
  
  Apply sociolinguistic terminology correctly in analysis and discussion.
  
  Relate these concepts to English and to multilingual societies, especially those familiar to the students.
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  Skills
  
  Knowledge competence: understand the definitions and main features of diglossia, bilingualism, code-switching, borrowing, and variationist sociolinguistics.
  
  Analytical competence: identify and compare these phenomena in spoken or written discourse.
  Interpretive competence: explain why speakers change language or variety depending on context, interlocutor, and social setting.
  
  Linguistic competence: use the correct terminology and describe examples accurately.
  
  Communicative competence: discuss sociolinguistic issues clearly in oral and written form.
  
  Critical competence: reflect on how social factors such as class, age, gender, and identity influence language variation.