Bilingualism

Course Number: 82-888

This course discusses and analyzes research on bilingualism from social, cognitive, pedagogical and political perspectives. This includes discussions of language policy and bilingual education, looking at research on a variety of models and contexts (both in the USA and abroad) for bilingual education. The course also covers some special categories of bilinguals, such as heritage speakers, speakers of endangered languages and deaf bilinguals.

Since the goal of second language acquisition is to produce bilinguals, students engage with questions about the relationship between the fields of bilingual education and second language acquisition and reflect critically on how the paradigms discussed are related to students’ areas of research and pedagogical interest. Through fieldwork projects, students collect and analyze data on bilingual language practices related to their field(s) of interest.

Degree: Graduate
Concentration: Ph.D. in ALSLA
Semester(s): Fall, Spring