Language, Ideologies and Attitudes

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• display individual learning, study and performance skills and time management through your independent learning activities
• display both self-confidence and self-awareness in your studies
• show capacity for problem solving, information gathering and presenting your findings
• demonstrate written communication skills through the development of ideas and arguments

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how particular beliefs about language, including stereotypes and prejudice, emerge and develop.
• Sociolinguistic phenomena relating to language ideology, and sociopsychological phenomena relating to language attitudes;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• synthesise your own commentaries of sociolinguistic case studies
• evaluate sociolinguistic data using theoretical and methodological models
• recognise principles underlying the analysis and significance of sociolinguistic data in a global context

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.