SPAN 345: Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Course description
This course will first explore the nature of bilingualism, focusing on its neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic aspects. Students will examine the most important concepts and research questions in these areas. In addition, the class will focus on bilingualism in the United States and the Spanish-speaking world, including the examination of bilingual education programs (e.g., immersion programs) and important political matters connected to them. (Prereq: Any Spanish 300 or 400 level course)
Meets MLO 2
Course description
This course will first explore the nature of bilingualism, focusing on its neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic aspects. Students will examine the most important concepts and research questions in these areas. In addition, the class will focus on bilingualism in the United States and the Spanish-speaking world, including the examination of bilingual education programs (e.g., immersion programs) and important political matters connected to them. (Prereq: Any Spanish 300 or 400 level course)
Meets MLO 2
Course Reflective Narrative:
The Bilingualism course helped me in several ways, some of them were the code switching we people who are bilingual do. The code switching was very interesting to learn, since it is something that is very common in people who speak two languages; it is the mixture of two languages when speaking it. Usually the code switching occurs when two languages are in contact. I learned about language development from childhood to adulthood. It was very interesting to learn how language develops from birth to adulthood. Also, if in childhood the child is exposed to two or more languages around it, it is easy for him or her to learn the languages as a mother tongue. On the other hand, when you learn a mother language L1 and later you acquire another language it would be your L2. In this course I interviewed bilingual people and it was very interesting to put into practice what I learned, since I could identify the code change and why I was doing it. Through this interview I learned to develop research questions and to collect information about bilingualism. This course was without a doubt one of the courses that helped me understand bilingualism. Another project was a research that we did dialects was very interesting because we learned the similarities between the dialects and the Spanish language at the morphological, semantic, and phonological levels.
The Bilingualism course helped me in several ways, some of them were the code switching we people who are bilingual do. The code switching was very interesting to learn, since it is something that is very common in people who speak two languages; it is the mixture of two languages when speaking it. Usually the code switching occurs when two languages are in contact. I learned about language development from childhood to adulthood. It was very interesting to learn how language develops from birth to adulthood. Also, if in childhood the child is exposed to two or more languages around it, it is easy for him or her to learn the languages as a mother tongue. On the other hand, when you learn a mother language L1 and later you acquire another language it would be your L2. In this course I interviewed bilingual people and it was very interesting to put into practice what I learned, since I could identify the code change and why I was doing it. Through this interview I learned to develop research questions and to collect information about bilingualism. This course was without a doubt one of the courses that helped me understand bilingualism. Another project was a research that we did dialects was very interesting because we learned the similarities between the dialects and the Spanish language at the morphological, semantic, and phonological levels.
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