Duration
20h SEM
Number of credits
| Master in linguistics (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Seminar sessions (presentations and discussion) centred on the study of a reading portfolio that broaches various major themes in contemporary linguistics
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the seminar, students will have mastered the contents and the challenges put forward by the reading portfolio. In particular, they will be able to:
- understand and critically assess the major challenges of the various domains of linguistics represented by the articles in the reading portfolio
- read, understand and present (orally and in writing) the contents of contemporary linguistic studies;
- discuss those contents with their peers
- develop (oral or written presentation) an idea of one of the domains tackled or in relation with their own personal interests in linguistics.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
General notions of linguistics.
Good understanding of French and English (spoken and written)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The seminar aims at active participation of the students involved by means of oral presentations, written reviews and discussion.
In concrete terms, the seminar consists of 6 sessions of 3 hours each centred on the presentation and discussion of the methodological challenges put forward by a specific scientific article or book chapter. Five of the six sessions will be organized as follows:
1/ The article/book chapter concerned is presented by one of the professors involved in the seminar (see 'organisational remarks')
2/ Each student then in turn takes the floor by means of an oral presentation of 10 to 15 minutes critically addressing the study at hand, to underline the questions it gives rise to, suggest extensions or any other kind of proper scientific reaction to it.
3/ All of the participants discuss the presentations, mediated by the professor in charge of the session, who synthesizes the discussion.
One session will take the form of a workshop.
When appropriate, invited researchers can potentially be asked to participate in the sessions by presenting certain issues and by taking part in the discussion.
In the exam session, students will present an individual presentation of 30 minutes in the context of a collective one-day workshop attended by all students. In the presentation, they will give an account of how they have made the topics addressed in the seminar their own (development of a critical review or a synthesis, identifying an object of study, relating it to the master thesis, etc.)
Students are encouraged to work in groups and to go see the professors in charge of the seminar. This preparation should lead to two personal pieces of work each session:
1/ A long summary of the article/book chapter studied in the session concerned. This summary highlights the plan and is about 3 to 5 pages long. In addition, there has to be a page with figures (when relevant) and a bibliography.
2/ A critical presentation (cf. supra)
The final session will give rise to two pieces of work:
1/ A critical presentation (cf. supra)
2/ A document that synthesizes this presentation and which should be submitted a week before the concluding session (10 to 15 pages + bibliography)
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Classroom sessions
Recommended or required readings
Reading portfolio.
List with additional literature distributed during the year.
Assessment methods and criteria
Permanent evaluation
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Afterwards, the seminar is organized around six 3-hour sessions each, ideally each month from October until December and from February to May.
Students will have a month to prepare for each session.
Following these sessions, there will be a concluding session to prepare the day-long workshop that will take place in the exam session.
Contacts
Philippe Swennen -- Philippe.Swennen@ulg.ac.be
Nicolas Mazziotta -- nicolas.mazziotta@ulg.ac.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
All students speak French
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
All students speak French
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
See "Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session" (no change).
Assessment methods
See "Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session" (no change).
Contacts
No change