The Bilingual Brain

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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.

721 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.

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7 videos1 assignment

What's included

8 videos1 assignment

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11 videos1 assignment

11 videosTotal 95 minutes

Office Hours 319 minutes
3 Laying Down Two Languages Across Time2 minutes
3.1 Let There Be Sound17 minutes
3.2 Phonology in a Second Language16 minutes
3.3 Grammar2 minutes
3.4 Critical Periods in a Second Language4 minutes
3.5 AoA and Orphaned Language11 minutes
3.6 Grammatical Proccessing and AoA12 minutes
3.7 Isolating AoA2 minutes
3.8 Grammatical Gender3 minutes
3.9 Camparing First and Second Language8 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 3 Quiz30 minutes

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8 videos1 assignment

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14 videos1 assignment

14 videosTotal 91 minutes

Office Hours 521 minutes
5 Practice What You Speak6 minutes
5.1 Language Loss4 minutes
5.2 Catastrophic Loss5 minutes
5.3 Can a Lost Language be Found3 minutes
5.4 Plasticity and Language Acquisition5 minutes
5.5 Restructuring Plasticity10 minutes
5.6 The Dichotic Nature of Language6 minutes
5.7 What is Predicted by Language Proficiency4 minutes
5.8 From Everyday to Academic Language6 minutes
5.9 Academic and Everyday Grammar2 minutes
5.10 Language and Memory System4 minutes
5.11 Speech in a Second Language12 minutes
5.12 Language Learning as a Building Process2 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 5 Quiz30 minutes

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9 videos1 assignment

9 videosTotal 69 minutes

Office Hours 616 minutes
6 Controlled Adjustments4 minutes
6.1 Control and the Brain9 minutes
6.2 How Do We Learn Control?17 minutes
6.3 Brain Development and Control1 minute
6.4 From Control to Flexibility6 minutes
6.5 Changes in Task Switching Across Development4 minutes
6.6 Aging and the Eroding Prefrontal Cortex5 minutes
6.7 Control And Language9 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 6 Quiz30 minutes

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9 videos1 assignment

9 videosTotal 73 minutes

Office Hours 715 minutes
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 Advantage7 minutes
7.4 The Bilingual Disadvantage7 minutes
7.5 A Couple of Caveats5 minutes
7.6 Bilingual Control and Language Proficiency4 minutes
7.7 Beyond Control8 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Week 7 Quiz30 minutes

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7 videos2 assignments

7 videosTotal 57 minutes

Office Hours 825 minutes
8 The Final Frontier3 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 Mind7 minutes
8.5 The Bilingual Brain6 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 Dec 20, 2021

This course was indeed one of the best that was offered by Coursera. Thanks to Dr. Hernandez for his profound knowledge. I learned a lot.

Reviewed on Aug 16, 2020

It led me to a whole new world to see bilingualism from different point of view. It explained ideas that I had before scientifically.

Reviewed on Oct 14, 2019

This course provides lost of data and valuable information for those who are interested in bilingualism and how the brain works.

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