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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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