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.
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7 videos1 assignment
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7 videos•Total 42 minutes
Office Hours 1•17 minutes
1-1 Introduction•1 minute
1-2 Familiarity and Its Neural Instantiation•2 minutes
1-3 Age of Acquisition•7 minutes
1-4 Beyond Language•2 minutes
1-5 Plan for this course•8 minutes
1-6 Toward a Bilingual Metaphor•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 1 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 2
Module 2•2 hours to complete
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8 videos1 assignment
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8 videos•Total 87 minutes
Office Hours 2•17 minutes
2 The Nature of Learning•18 minutes
2-1 AOA In A Single Language•13 minutes
2-2 AoA and Sensitive Periods•21 minutes
2-3 AoA and Language•4 minutes
2-4 Digging into the Depth of Language•5 minutes
2-5 Building a Grammar•6 minutes
2-6 The Sensorimotor Nature of AoA•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 2 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 3
Module 3•2 hours to complete
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11 videos1 assignment
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11 videos•Total 95 minutes
Office Hours 3•19 minutes
3 Laying Down Two Languages Across Time•2 minutes
3.1 Let There Be Sound•17 minutes
3.2 Phonology in a Second Language•16 minutes
3.3 Grammar•2 minutes
3.4 Critical Periods in a Second Language•4 minutes
3.5 AoA and Orphaned Language•11 minutes
3.6 Grammatical Proccessing and AoA•12 minutes
3.7 Isolating AoA•2 minutes
3.8 Grammatical Gender•3 minutes
3.9 Camparing First and Second Language•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 4
Module 4•2 hours to complete
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8 videos1 assignment
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8 videos•Total 97 minutes
Office Hours 4•17 minutes
4 Proficiency, Efficiency and Expertise•1 minute
4.1 Expertise•9 minutes
4.2 Perceptual Expertise•16 minutes
4.3 What Makes Expertise•18 minutes
4.4 Deliberate Practice and Language•12 minutes
4.5 Learning Without Knowing•18 minutes
4.6 Expertise and Language Proficiency •6 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 4 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 5
Module 5•2 hours to complete
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14 videos1 assignment
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14 videos•Total 91 minutes
Office Hours 5•21 minutes
5 Practice What You Speak•6 minutes
5.1 Language Loss•4 minutes
5.2 Catastrophic Loss•5 minutes
5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found•3 minutes
5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition•5 minutes
5.5 Restructuring Plasticity•10 minutes
5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language•6 minutes
5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency•4 minutes
5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language•6 minutes
5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar•2 minutes
5.10 Language and Memory System•4 minutes
5.11 Speech in a Second Language•12 minutes
5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 5 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 6
Module 6•2 hours to complete
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9 videos1 assignment
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9 videos•Total 69 minutes
Office Hours 6•16 minutes
6 Controlled Adjustments•4 minutes
6.1 Control and the Brain•9 minutes
6.2 How Do We Learn Control?•17 minutes
6.3 Brain Development and Control•1 minute
6.4 From Control to Flexibility•6 minutes
6.5 Changes in Task Switching Across Development•4 minutes
6.6 Aging and the Eroding Prefrontal Cortex•5 minutes
6.7 Control And Language•9 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 6 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 7
Module 7•2 hours to complete
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9 videos1 assignment
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9 videos•Total 73 minutes
Office Hours 7•15 minutes
7 Control, Flexibility and the Two Language Dilemma•6 minutes
7.1 The Language Switch•13 minutes
7.2 In Search of the Language Switch•7 minutes
7.3 The Bilingual Advantage•7 minutes
7.4 The Bilingual Disadvantage•7 minutes
7.5 A Couple of Caveats•5 minutes
7.6 Bilingual Control and Language Proficiency•4 minutes
7.7 Beyond Control•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 7 Quiz•30 minutes
Week 8
Module 8•2 hours to complete
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7 videos2 assignments
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7 videos•Total 57 minutes
Office Hours 8•25 minutes
8 The Final Frontier•3 minutes
8.1 AoA, Proficiency and Control Interact•3 minutes
8.2 The Nonlinear Dynamics of Bilingualism•8 minutes
8.3 From Cognitive Principles to Brain Principles•5 minutes
8.4 Metaphors of the Mind•7 minutes
8.5 The Bilingual Brain•6 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Week 8 Quiz•30 minutes
Final Exam•30 minutes
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Reviewed on Jul 2, 2023
I learned lots of new information that I wasn't expecting. I really enjoyed the ride and loved the EAOA process.
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Reviewed on Dec 24, 2024
It was a meaningful course with lots of current research sharing. As a language teacher, I would like to share what I learned here with my colleagues to guide our curriculum.
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Reviewed on Oct 30, 2016
A great course for those who are interested in the fascinating bilingual research going on in area. Clearly stated, up-to-date literature shared.
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