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.
Bilingualism in the Spanish Speaking World: This course covers MLO 1 & 2- Language Proficiency and Linguistics. At the beginning of this course, I learned about the aspects of linguistics we were going to focus on as a class. Such as: bilingualism, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and linguistics. The linguistics field covers so much material. Linguistics is all around us. This class was one of my favorites this semester thanks to Dr. Oliva that always engages us in conversations based on the assigned readings, which are interesting. I learned that animals do have their own language although there is a huge difference between human language and animal language. Something that stands out the most to me and that I always recall is how not everyone can learn a language. Unfortunately, some people suffer brain lesions/damage or may have a learning disability and as a consequence can’t learn to speak another language. If a child is trying to learn a second language it is much easier than it is for an adult. This class is similar to my Linguistics 392 course but the other one dealt more with language acquisition. As evidence I’ve attached a presentation I did with other classmates. The presentation is about the Spanish language in contact with English in the United States.
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