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.
Offered By
University of Houston System
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
11 hour to complete
Week 1
7 videos (Total 42 min), 1 quiz
7 videos
1-1 Introduction1m
1-2 Familiarity and Its Neural Instantiation2m
1-3 Age of Acquisition7m
1-4 Beyond Language1m
1-5 Plan for this course8m
1-6 Toward a Bilingual Metaphor4m
1 practice exercise
Week 1 Quiz10m
Week
22 hours to complete
Week 2
8 videos (Total 87 min), 1 quiz
8 videos
2 The Nature of Learning18m
2-1 AOA In A Single Language12m
2-2 AoA and Sensitive Periods20m
2-3 AoA and Language4m
2-4 Digging into the Depth of Language4m
2-5 Building a Grammar6m
2-6 The Sensorimotor Nature of AoA1m
1 practice exercise
Week 2 Quiz14m
Week
32 hours to complete
Week 3
11 videos (Total 95 min), 1 quiz
11 videos
3 Laying Down Two Languages Across Time2m
3.1 Let There Be Sound16m
3.2 Phonology in a Second Language16m
3.3 Grammar1m
3.4 Critical Periods in a Second Language3m
3.5 AoA and Orphaned Language10m
3.6 Grammatical Proccessing and AoA11m
3.7 Isolating AoA2m
3.8 Grammatical Gender3m
3.9 Camparing First and Second Language7m
1 practice exercise
Week 3 Quiz18m
Week
42 hours to complete
Week 4
8 videos (Total 97 min), 1 quiz
8 videos
4 Proficiency, Efficiency and Expertise1m
4.1 Expertise9m
4.2 Perceptual Expertise16m
4.3 What Makes Expertise17m
4.4 Deliberate Practice and Language11m
4.5 Learning Without Knowing18m
4.6 Expertise and Language Proficiency 5m
1 practice exercise
Week 4 Quiz12m
Week
52 hours to complete
Week 5
14 videos (Total 91 min), 1 quiz
14 videos
5 Practice What You Speak6m
5.1 Language Loss4m
5.2 Catastrophic Loss4m
5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found3m
5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition5m
5.5 Restructuring Plasticity9m
5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language6m
5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency3m
5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language5m
5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar2m
5.10 Language and Memory System3m
5.11 Speech in a Second Language12m
5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process1m
1 practice exercise
Week 5 Quiz24m
Week
61 hour to complete
Week 6
9 videos (Total 69 min), 1 quiz
9 videos
6 Controlled Adjustments3m
6.1 Control and the Brain9m
6.2 How Do We Learn Control?16m
6.3 Brain Development and Control45s
6.4 From Control to Flexibility5m
6.5 Changes in Task Switching Across Development4m
6.6 Aging and the Eroding Prefrontal Cortex5m
6.7 Control And Language8m
1 practice exercise
Week 6 Quiz14m
Week
71 hour to complete
Week 7
9 videos (Total 73 min), 1 quiz
9 videos
7 Control, Flexibility and the Two Language Dilemma6m
7.1 The Language Switch13m
7.2 In Search of the Language Switch7m
7.3 The Bilingual Advantage6m
7.4 The Bilingual Disadvantage7m
7.5 A Couple of Caveats5m
7.6 Bilingual Control and Language Proficiency3m
7.7 Beyond Control8m
1 practice exercise
Week 7 Quiz16m
Week
83 hours to complete
Week 8
7 videos (Total 57 min), 2 quizzes
7 videos
8 The Final Frontier2m
8.1 AoA, Proficiency and Control Interact3m
8.2 The Nonlinear Dynamics of Bilingualism8m
8.3 From Cognitive Principles to Brain Principles5m
8.4 Metaphors of the Mind6m
8.5 The Bilingual Brain5m
2 practice exercises
Week 8 Quiz12m
Final Exam1h 58m
4.5
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Top reviews from The Bilingual Brain
This course helped me in understanding various aspects of how brain and mind works and how we can use these knowledge for studying different languages and also when we multitasks
A great course for those who are interested in the fascinating bilingual research going on in area. Clearly stated, up-to-date literature shared.
Instructor
Arturo E. Hernandez
ProfessorPsychology
About University of Houston System
The University of Houston System’s four universities and six regional campuses comprise the only comprehensive higher education system serving the world’s energy capital and the Gulf Coast region. Among institutions nationwide, the UH System remains a model of diversity and a reflection of the city it serves.
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