Course: Linguistic Internship

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Course title Linguistic Internship
Course code KOL/VSTAZ
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Faltýnek Dan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Vaculíková Petra, Mgr.
Course content
Students will take part in one day or two day stays at selected institutions and write essays based on their experience.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The course offers student an opportunity of educational stay at the Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, more precisely at the Institute's Grammar Department; at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the Charles University Faculty of Science; at the Institute of the Czech National corpus of the Charles University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy; and at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The Grammar Department will allow students to learn about the details of creation of the new Czech grammar book, watch the Department at work and consult selected grammatical phenomena or problems, discuss their approach to creation of grammar books or questions of language culture. During the stay, a separate grammatical study will be created by the students under tutelage of a member of the Department. As part of cooperation with the Department of Philosophy and History of Science, FF UP students can travel to selected lectures of international experts mostly from the fields of biosemiotics and theoretical biology. They will then consult the lecture with members of the Department of General Linguistics and comment on it in a brief text. At the Institute of the Czech National Corpus of the Charles University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, students will take part in instruction course on operating the Bonito corpus manager and other interfaces, as well as on methods of corpus analysis and corpus creation. The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics of the Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics will allow students to get acquainted with the Institute's activities (audiovisual centre MATLACH, software for linguistic analysis, etc.) and are instructed in use of the Prague Dependency Treebank of Spoken Czech. Students will have their complete travel expenses reimbursed.
Knowledge of working practices at important Czech institutions
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Analyssis of the Student's Portfolio, Seminar Work

(1) Educational stay (2) Written essay
Recommended literature


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -