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

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 20 Jan, 2025

End Date : 14 Mar, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 27 Jan, 2025

Other

End Date : 14 Feb, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 23 Mar, 2025

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Guwahati (IITG)

The fees for the course Bilingualism: A cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective is -

HeadAmount in INR
Exam feesRs. 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

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