Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective
Online
8 WeeksQuick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Important dates
Course Commencement Date
Start Date : 19 Feb, 2025
End Date : 13 Mar, 2026
Certificate Exam Date
Start Date : 29 Mar, 2026
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 1000 | yes | IIT Guwahati (IITG) |
The fees for the course Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective is -
| Head | Amount in INR |
| Exam fees | Rs. 1,000 |
The Syllabus
- Becoming and being bilingual : Socio-historical aspects: Language contact: reasons and effect
- Attitude and acculturation; Markers of a bilingual society: The continuum: Who is a bilingual? fractional and wholistic view of bilingualism
- Types of bilinguals; learning pathways for monolinguals Vs bilinguals; bilingual’s language mode
- Bicultural bilingual.Bilingualism and multilingualism: some important points
Bilingual acquisition
- Childhood bilingualism; childhood SLA; adult SLA
Bilingual cognition
- Relativity; color cognition, perception of motion, grammatical categories, spatial language; conceptual transfer. Bilingual memory models; Episodic, semantic and working memory
Brain of a bilingual
- Cerebral laterality; aphasia & electrophysiological data; laterality in terms of Age of Acquisition, proficiency and control mechanisms; behavioral laterality
Bilingual speech processing
- Speech perception, comprehension and production in children and adults; base language effect in categorical perception and speech production
Bilingual lexical and sentence processing
- Bilingual mental lexicon: phonological, orthographic, and semantic representations;
- Models of lexical access: language selective Vs non-selective hypothesis;
- Models of bilingual representation and processing: RHM, BIA, BIA+, BIMOLA, Multilink; comprehension: effect of frequency, Age-of-Acquisition, context, priming, cross-language lexical properties.
- Production: language production models: MLF model, Uniform structure principle, the 4-M model, the abstract level model; selection and control in production; factors affecting production.Sentence processing;reading and writing
- Cognitive consequences of bilingualism : Consequences of bilingualism: metalinguistic abilities; language control; executive control and cognitive reserve; Consequences of bilingualism: metalinguistic abilities; language control;executive control and cognitive reserve
- Applied areas : Bilingual education; language planning and policy; language teaching; advertising; current trends in bilingualism research