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.
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.
Course Narrative:
During this course, SPAN 345: Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World, I was able to achieve one of the Linguistic requirement for the MLO 2, developing knowledge of fundamental concepts in the fields of Hispanic and Applied Linguistics, and applying them in the completion of research papers and learning about current issues in society. This course introduced me to the nature of bilingualism, focusing on the linguistic aspects in different areas. Some interesting that I learn during this class was the history of different dialects and how many of them are disappearing because new generations do not continue practicing them. Through our reading and class discussions I also learned about different neurological disorders that affect the language of a person that suffers from diseases like aphasia.
In this class we also learned about the change of code in the language of Hispanics where most of the individuals who are bilingual speaking both Spanish and English for example, are more likely to mix the languages and more common to make this change when holding a conversation. We were also introduced the morphological level of speech which is the part of linguistics that studies the structure of words. Additionally, we also learned the phonological - sound of languages, the physical and acoustic articulation, that we could see in different Latin American countries. This course taught me a lot about how the human language works which can help me understand better the way my future students learn, and how to help them be successful in their Spanish language.
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