Week 1:
Module 1: Introduction to Basic Concepts in Bilingualism.
Introduction - Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism; Definitions and Types of Bilingualism.
Week 2:
Module 1: Introduction to Basic Concepts in Bilingualism.
Second Language Acquisition - Acquisition of the second language, critical period hypothesis, Acquiring phonology, morphology and syntax.
Week 3:
Module 2: Understanding and Speaking Multiple Languages.
Perception and Comprehension - Semantic & conceptual representations in Bilinguals; Models of Bilingual Lexical Access and Word Recognition.
Week 4:
Module 2: Understanding and Speaking Multiple Languages.
Bilingual Language Production - Model of monolingual and bilingual speech production; Selection and Lexicalisation; Experimental Tasks.
Week 5:
Module 3: Managing Multiple Languages and the Brain.
Language Control in Bilinguals and Multilinguals - Langauge control as switching between two language systems; Activation and Deactivation of Language Systems; Selective and Non-Selective Frameworks of Bilingual Language Control.
\Week 6:
Module 3: Managing Multiple Languages and the Brain.
Neuroscience of Bilingualism - Neural bases of bilingualism; neural consequences of bilingualism; neural reorganization & plasticity of bilingual networks.
Week 7:
Module 4: How Bilingualism Changes Us.
Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism - Bilingual and Executive Functions; Bilingualism and Memory; Bilingualism & Attention; Bilingualism and Thought.
Week 8:
Module 4: How Bilingualism Changes Us
Sociolinguistics of Bilingualism - Bilingual and Monolingual Communities; Bilingual Education & Literacy; Issues of Bilingual/Multilingual Identities.
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