Educational Language Policy

Course objectives: Students develop a critical approach and a methodological apparatus that enable them to understand and deal critically with educational language policies.

Course description: This course provides a critical analysis of the topics and phenomena pertaining to educational language policies, particularly in relation to perceptions of language as well as to the importance and role of language in social communities. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the ways in which educational language policies are created and how they operate, namely, to the analysis of the correlations between linguistic and extralinguistic factors and institutions that influence the decisions about which languages will find their place in education systems, in what roles (languages of instruction, foreign languages, minority and regional languages) and in what teaching modalities (monolingual or multilingual teaching, additive and subtractive bilingualism in education, academic language competences, communicative competences, etc).

Learning Outcomes: Students acquire theoretical knowledge and methodological competences so that they can independently research and analyse the educational language policies in Serbia, Europe and in the rest of the world.

Literature/Reading:

• Filipović, Jelena. 2009. Moć reči: Ogledi iz kritičke sociolingvistike. Beograd: Zadužbina Andrejević. (Može se nabaviti kod izdavača).
• Filipović, Jelena (2011), Language policy and planning in standard language cultures – an alternative approach. In: Vera Vasić (ed.), Primenjena Lingvistika u čast Ranku Bugarskom. JEZIK U UPOTREBI
• Filipović, Jelena, Julijana Vučo, and Ljiljana Djurić. 2010. From Language Barriers to Social Capital: Serbian as the Language of Education for Romani Children.
• Filipović, Jelena. 2009. Rodno osetljive jezičke politike: teorijske postavke i metodološki postupci Anali Filološkog fakulteta, 21: 109-127.
• j.Filipović, J.Vučo & Lj.Djurić. 2007. Critical review of language education policies in compulsory primary and secondary education in Serbia. Current Issues in Language Planning: Vol. 8:2: 222-242.
• Filipović, Jelena. (forthcoming). Language education policies and the education of Roma in Serbia. Multilingualism in Europe: Prospects and Practices in East-Central Europe
• Hogan Brun, Gabrielle & Stefan Wolff (eds.). 2010 (1st ed. 2003). Minority languages in Europe. Frameworks, status, prospects. Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
• Hyland Eriksen, Thomas. 2001. Small places, large issues. London, New York: Pluto Press, pp. 260-311.