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Language Project Planning and Implementation

Explore aspects of stakeholder involvement in language development including:

Partnership with a language community
Capacity building in a language community as a strategy for sustainable language development

Why study this course?
Objectives
Dates and fees

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.