Language Project Planning and Implementation
Explore aspects of stakeholder involvement in language development including:
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Partnership with a language community
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Capacity building in a language community as a strategy for sustainable language development
Language Project Planning and Implementation is taught in partnership with Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL International.
During the course you will be involved in:
- Research into factors, both social and linguistic, that are most likely to influence a language development project
- Practising aspects of strategic planning relevant to language project development.
The Language Project Planning and Implementation Course can be taken directly after the Assignment Related Training module or, more usually, following an 18-24 month first assignment to an initial level role in SIL. Thus it can be taken as training towards a specialist or consultant role with SIL.
It can also be taken as part of either the MA Field Linguistics or MA Literacy Programme Development.
The usual entry requirements for a Redcliffe College postgraduate level course apply.
By the end of the course, participants have:
- Reviewed approaches to planning language projects, with a particular focus on the RBM planning model
- Identified the various categories of stakeholder involved in a language development project and assessed their potential impact on the project
- Considered aspects of partnership in language development projects
- Compared and evaluated potential language development strategies
- Explored issues relevant to sustainable language development
- Researched, in depth, the context of a particular language community
- Identified key factors, both local and national, that may be significant for language development
- Practised aspects of strategic planning relevant to language development projects
- Discussed the importance of periodic monitoring and evaluation of language development projects
- Developed a personal bibliography of language project management resources.
Course dates
Language Project Planning and Implementation forms part of the PGDip stage of MA Literacy Programme Development and MA Field Linguistics, which runs from January to June. It can also be studied as a standalone module.
Language Project Planning and Implementation will run from 11 March – 22 March 2019
Application Deadline as a standalone module: 25 February 2019
For full 2019 course dates, please click here.
Course fees
Tuition fees in 2019 for Language Project Planning and Implementation are £400.
For more information about course fees and accommodation options, see our fees page.