Content

  Lesson One: Diglossia 

Objective: 

- Introducing students to the concept of diglossia as a key sociolinguistic situation.

-Enabling  students to describe and analyse the functional distribution of High and Low varieties within a speech community

Content:

-Definition of Diglossia and its features

-Extended Diglossia  

    Lesson2: Bilingualism

Objectives:

-Understanding the concept of Bilingualism from different perspectives

-Identifying the different types of Bilingualism

Content: 

-The definition of Blingualism 

-Types of Bilingualism

         Lesson3:Code-switching 

Objectives:

-Understanding code switching as a systematic feature of multilingual discourse, to distinguish it from related phenomena such as code mixing

 -Developing  students’ ability to interpret the communicative and social functions of code switching

Content: 

-The definition of Code-switching and its types

-Code switching vs Code mixing

-Functions of code-switching 

              Lesson four: Language Borrowing 

Objectives: 

-to understand language borrowing as a major outcome of language contact, 

-to define and distinguish borrowing from code switching and related phenomena,

Content 

-The definition of borrowing and its types 

-Borrowing and other linguistic phenomena.

        Lesson Five: Pidgin and Creoles

Objectives

-Understanding pidgins and creoles as products of intense language contact, to distinguish them from other reduced or mixed codes, and to describe their structural and functional characteristics

Content

-basic distinctions between Pidgin and creoles

-Structural Characteristics of Pidgin and Creole

-Sociolinguistic Status

            Lesson 6: Globalisation 

Objectives

-Understanding the concept of globalisation from different perspectives and disciplines.
 -Discussing the factors of globalisation of English and defining the features of global English. 

Content

-What is Globalisation and English as a Global Language
-World Englishes and the Factors of the Global Spread of English

            Lesson 7: Language Planning 

Objectives

-Understand what is language planning.
-Distinguish between the different types of language planning.

Content

 -Definition of Language Planning
- Types of Language Planning