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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
FAQs
How It Works
Trabajo del curso
Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.
Ayuda de tus compañeros
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Certificados
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Creators
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.
Ratings and Reviews
Dr. Hernandez is wonderful! He gives such great insight into a bilingual brain!
Very interesting insight of the bilingual brain processing that helps me understand my bilingual children better, working with the other bilingual children (teaching them Russian Mother tongue), how to keep L1 going, when L2 is dominant (due to the environment) and exposing them to other languages. The importance of Age of Acquisition, the difference between early learners and late learners of the languages, the language proficiency, its expertise, control, flexibility, the language loss and recovery and so on - all these aspects play a huge role in Billinguism. This course is based on psychological scientific studies, tests, referrals to the actual brain areas, its function. Thank you, Dr. Hernandez, really enjoyed your course!
Very interesting information. Good course.
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Very interesting and informative course. Thank you!