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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

The Syllabus

Introduction
  • Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism; Definitions and Types of Bilingualism.

Second Language Acquisition
  • Acquisition of the second language, critical period hypothesis, Acquiring phonology, morphology and syntax.

Perception and Comprehension
  • Semantic & conceptual representations in Bilinguals; Models of Bilingual Lexical Access and Word Recognition.

Bilingual Language Production
  • Model of monolingual and bilingual speech production; Selection and Lexicalisation; Experimental Tasks.

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.

Neuroscience of Bilingualism
  • Neural bases of bilingualism; neural consequences of bilingualism; neural reorganization & plasticity of bilingual networks.

Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism
  • Bilingual and Executive Functions; Bilingualism and Memory; Bilingualism & Attention;
  • Bilingualism and Thought.

Sociolinguistics of Bilingualism
  • Bilingual and Monolingual Communities; Bilingual Education & Literacy; Issues of Bilingual/Multilingual Identities.

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