About this course: This course explores the brain bases of bilingualism by discussing literature relevant to differences in age of initial learning, proficiency, and control in the nonverbal, single language and dual-language literature. Participants will learn about the latest research related to how humans learn one or two languages and other cognitive skills.
Created by: University of Houston System
Taught by: Arturo E. Hernandez, Professor
Psychology
| Commitment | 4-6 hours/week |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Russian |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Week 1
7 videos
- Video: Office Hours 1
- Video: 1-1 Introduction
- Video: 1-2 Familiarity and Its Neural Instantiation
- Video: 1-3 Age of Acquisition
- Video: 1-4 Beyond Language
- Video: 1-5 Plan for this course
- Video: 1-6 Toward a Bilingual Metaphor
Graded: Week 1 Quiz
WEEK 2
Week 2
8 videos
- Video: Office Hours 2
- Video: 2 The Nature of Learning
- Video: 2-1 AOA In A Single Language
- Video: 2-2 AoA and Sensitive Periods
- Video: 2-3 AoA and Language
- Video: 2-4 Digging into the Depth of Language
- Video: 2-5 Building a Grammar
- Video: 2-6 The Sensorimotor Nature of AoA
Graded: Week 2 Quiz
WEEK 3
Week 3
11 videos
- Video: Office Hours 3
- Video: 3 Laying Down Two Languages Across Time
- Video: 3.1 Let There Be Sound
- Video: 3.2 Phonology in a Second Language
- Video: 3.3 Grammar
- Video: 3.4 Critical Periods in a Second Language
- Video: 3.5 AoA and Orphaned Language
- Video: 3.6 Grammatical Proccessing and AoA
- Video: 3.7 Isolating AoA
- Video: 3.8 Grammatical Gender
- Video: 3.9 Camparing First and Second Language
Graded: Week 3 Quiz
WEEK 4
Week 4
8 videos
- Video: Office Hours 4
- Video: 4 Proficiency, Efficiency and Expertise
- Video: 4.1 Expertise
- Video: 4.2 Perceptual Expertise
- Video: 4.3 What Makes Expertise
- Video: 4.4 Deliberate Practice and Language
- Video: 4.5 Learning Without Knowing
- Video: 4.6 Expertise and Language Proficiency
Graded: Week 4 Quiz
WEEK 5
Week 5
14 videos
- Video: Office Hours 5
- Video: 5 Practice What You Speak
- Video: 5.1 Language Loss
- Video: 5.2 Catastrophic Loss
- Video: 5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found
- Video: 5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition
- Video: 5.5 Restructuring Plasticity
- Video: 5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language
- Video: 5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency
- Video: 5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language
- Video: 5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar
- Video: 5.10 Language and Memory System
- Video: 5.11 Speech in a Second Language
- Video: 5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process
Graded: Week 5 Quiz
WEEK 6
Week 6
9 videos
- Video: Office Hours 6
- Video: 6 Controlled Adjustments
- Video: 6.1 Control and the Brain
- Video: 6.2 How Do We Learn Control?
- Video: 6.3 Brain Development and Control
- Video: 6.4 From Control to Flexibility
- Video: 6.5 Changes in Task Switching Across Development
- Video: 6.6 Aging and the Eroding Prefrontal Cortex
- Video: 6.7 Control And Language
Graded: Week 6 Quiz
WEEK 7
Week 7
9 videos
- Video: Office Hours 7
- Video: 7 Control, Flexibility and the Two Language Dilemma
- Video: 7.1 The Language Switch
- Video: 7.2 In Search of the Language Switch
- Video: 7.3 The Bilingual Advantage
- Video: 7.4 The Bilingual Disadvantage
- Video: 7.5 A Couple of Caveats
- Video: 7.6 Bilingual Control and Language Proficiency
- Video: 7.7 Beyond Control
Graded: Week 7 Quiz
WEEK 8
Week 8
7 videos
- Video: Office Hours 8
- Video: 8 The Final Frontier
- Video: 8.1 AoA, Proficiency and Control Interact
- Video: 8.2 The Nonlinear Dynamics of Bilingualism
- Video: 8.3 From Cognitive Principles to Brain Principles
- Video: 8.4 Metaphors of the Mind
- Video: 8.5 The Bilingual Brain
Graded: Week 8 Quiz
Graded: Final Exam
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Ratings and Reviews
Great! Arturo Hernandez is a very talented person and great professor
Very good context, yet the modules could be better distinguished.
Excellent! I would recommend to all those working on bilingual education and consulting for parents about it.
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LG
I would have liked deeper explanations of the charts and diagrams that were used so it's easier for those of us not familiar with the studies or brain images to understand.
Overall I really enjoyed the class! I'm getting my MA in Linguistics and Language Acquisition in the fall, and this was a great warm-up into that.