Welcome to HIF-8007, Language Acquisition!

In this course, you will get an introduction to various topics related to language acquisition and multilingualism, with a focus on studies carried out in Tromsø. The course will run over five days, Monday October 17 to Friday October 21, and you will meet a number of different instructors (for details about this, look at the course plan attached in Module 1). The course is structures as follows:

On Monday, we will focus on monolingual first language acquisition (Module 1)
On Tuesday, emphasis will be on bilingual first language acquisition (Module 2)
On Wednesday, we will consider studies of L2, L3 and Ln acquisition (Module 3)
On Thursday, the topic will be heritage speakers and heritage languages (Module 4)
On Friday, you will get a brief introduction to different methodologies (Module 5).

As is clear from this overview, he Canvas page is organised into modules around the same topics (L1, 2L1, heritage language, etc.), and you will find the readings for each class under the relevant module.

I'm looking forwards to seeing you in Tromsø in the middle of October!

Best wishes,

Merete

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Faglig ansvarlig for emnet: Merete Anderssen
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