The Bilingual Brain

The Bilingual Brain

Instructor: Arturo E. Hernandez

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There are 8 modules in this course

What's included

7 videos1 assignment

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

8 videosTotal 86 minutes

Office Hours 217 minutesPreview module
2 The Nature of Learning18 minutes
2-1 AOA In A Single Language12 minutes
2-2 AoA and Sensitive Periods20 minutes
2-3 AoA and Language4 minutes
2-4 Digging into the Depth of Language4 minutes
2-5 Building a Grammar6 minutes
2-6 The Sensorimotor Nature of AoA1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 2 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

11 videos1 assignment

11 videosTotal 95 minutes

Office Hours 319 minutesPreview module
3 Laying Down Two Languages Across Time2 minutes
3.1 Let There Be Sound16 minutes
3.2 Phonology in a Second Language16 minutes
3.3 Grammar1 minute
3.4 Critical Periods in a Second Language3 minutes
3.5 AoA and Orphaned Language10 minutes
3.6 Grammatical Proccessing and AoA11 minutes
3.7 Isolating AoA2 minutes
3.8 Grammatical Gender3 minutes
3.9 Camparing First and Second Language7 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 3 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

8 videosTotal 96 minutes

Office Hours 416 minutesPreview module
4 Proficiency, Efficiency and Expertise1 minute
4.1 Expertise9 minutes
4.2 Perceptual Expertise16 minutes
4.3 What Makes Expertise17 minutes
4.4 Deliberate Practice and Language11 minutes
4.5 Learning Without Knowing18 minutes
4.6 Expertise and Language Proficiency 5 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 4 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

14 videos1 assignment

14 videosTotal 90 minutes

Office Hours 520 minutesPreview module
5 Practice What You Speak6 minutes
5.1 Language Loss4 minutes
5.2 Catastrophic Loss4 minutes
5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found3 minutes
5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition5 minutes
5.5 Restructuring Plasticity9 minutes
5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language6 minutes
5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency3 minutes
5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language5 minutes
5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar2 minutes
5.10 Language and Memory System3 minutes
5.11 Speech in a Second Language12 minutes
5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 5 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

9 videosTotal 69 minutes

Office Hours 615 minutesPreview module
6 Controlled Adjustments3 minutes
6.1 Control and the Brain9 minutes
6.2 How Do We Learn Control?16 minutes
6.3 Brain Development and Control0 minutes
6.4 From Control to Flexibility5 minutes
6.5 Changes in Task Switching Across Development4 minutes
6.6 Aging and the Eroding Prefrontal Cortex5 minutes
6.7 Control And Language8 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 6 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

9 videosTotal 72 minutes

Office Hours 715 minutesPreview module
7 Control, Flexibility and the Two Language Dilemma6 minutes
7.1 The Language Switch13 minutes
7.2 In Search of the Language Switch7 minutes
7.3 The Bilingual Advantage6 minutes
7.4 The Bilingual Disadvantage7 minutes
7.5 A Couple of Caveats5 minutes
7.6 Bilingual Control and Language Proficiency3 minutes
7.7 Beyond Control8 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 7 Quiz30 minutes

What's included

7 videos2 assignments

7 videosTotal 56 minutes

Office Hours 824 minutesPreview module
8 The Final Frontier2 minutes
8.1 AoA, Proficiency and Control Interact3 minutes
8.2 The Nonlinear Dynamics of Bilingualism8 minutes
8.3 From Cognitive Principles to Brain Principles5 minutes
8.4 Metaphors of the Mind6 minutes
8.5 The Bilingual Brain5 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 60 minutes

Week 8 Quiz30 minutes
Final Exam30 minutes

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Arturo E. Hernandez

University of Houston

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Reviewed on Jun 13, 2023

Dr. Hernandez is a very good professor, his lessons are focused and connect well or chain to the next lesson.

Reviewed on Jan 19, 2021

Amazing and I have learned a lot. I am a Bilingual myself and it really sheds light on how the brain works in terms of learning and being proficient in two languages or more for others.

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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