Multilingual Pedagogies in Higher Education

Overview

What you will learn

• The participants of the Multilingual Pedagogies in Higher Education course offered by North-West University (NWU) should be able to demonstrate an awareness of and a sensitivity to multilingualism in Higher Education contexts in order to foster mutual respect among speakers of different languages, encourage an ethic of care, further a culture of social justice, and embrace diversity in language usage and language classrooms. 

• The participants should demonstrate knowledge and skilful implementation of a number of practical and useful strategies that may be utilised to enhance teaching, learning and assessment in a multilingual classroom in a Higher Education context.

• The participants should demonstrate the skill of returning to the medium of instruction and consolidating students’ understanding.

• The participants should be able to demonstrate an informed understanding of the strategies for the promotion of multilingual teaching and plan and manage an implementation process within a well-defined, familiar and supported environment.

• The participants should demonstrate a detailed understanding of lecturing through the medium of a second language, skills to evaluate, select and apply appropriate multilingual pedagogies within a familiar context, the ability to identify and analyse problems with regard to multilingual classrooms and identify possible solutions to these problems