Course title:
Propaedeutic workshop
Course code: PSL230
Course status: Obligatory
Course leader: Velimir Piškorec
Course instructors: Velimir Piškorec and Ida Raffaelli
Language of instruction: English
Total hours: 16S
Form of instruction: Seminar
ECTS credits: 8
Course content by topics:
Block I: Introductory lecture: introduction to the course structure, students’ responsibilities, activities and tasks; Introduction of professors and students ; Elements of academic writing in linguistics; Block II: Technical preparation of the text: design of the text, citing sources, listing bibliographical references; writing abstracts and key words; Introduction to critical reading of scientific texts and book reports writing; Block III: Round table: How to choose a research topic and how to prepare for conducting research?; Block IV: Preparation of an oral presentation: professor’s experience (Professor Ida Raffaelli) What does it mean to submit a paper to a scientific journal?; Block V: Preparation of an oral presentation: (Professor Velimir Piškorec); How to organize a scientific conference and edit conference proceedings?; Block VI / VII: Students’ presentations (duration of the presentation depends on the number of students); Concluding discussion and comments
Learning outcomes at course level:
1) To establish advantages and shortcomings of various theoretical frameworks for the design of one’s research.; 2) To compare the fundamental properties of the theoretical-methodological framework selected for one’s own research and other similar frameworks and discuss them; 3) To indentify the hypotheses of one’s own research.; 4) To plan the steps, i.e. the phases in the writing of a research paper.
Learning outcomes at programme level:
| IU1 | IU2 | IU3 | IU4 | IU5 | IU6 | IU7 | IU8 |
| x | X | x | x |
Reading list:
Wager, Elizabeth (2010): Getting Research Published: An A to Z of publication strategy. Oxford. New York: Radcliffe Publishing.
Assessment of student achievement: Course attendance, oral presentation (ppt) of the student’s research, a seminar paper
Quality assurance mechanism: student survey
2001 PHD thesis on the topic of German loanwords in the Kajkavian dialect of Podravina
1993 teaching assistant at the Department of German Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Research interests
His main areas of scientific interest are sociolinguistics, contact linguistics with a focus on Croatian-German/Austrian linguistic and cultural contacts, language biographical studies, ecolinguistics, dialect geography, interlinguistics, Esperantology and history of philology.
Full Professor tenure: Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (2020-)
EDUCATION:
2001 PhD dissertation Polysemy and Synonymy in the Lexicon of Old French
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb