The Bilingual Brain

The Bilingual Brain

Instructor: Arturo E. Hernandez

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8 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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8 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

718 reviews

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

98%

Most learners liked this course

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There are 8 modules in 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.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

11 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

14 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

9 videos1 assignment

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

What's included

7 videos2 assignments

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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Arturo E. Hernandez

University of Houston

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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.

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 28, 2019

This class covered many different aspects of bilingualism (and multiligualism) and included evidence from research.

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