This course will examine how people acquire, process, and use a second language. Topics will include simultaneous and sequential bilingualism, the critical period hypothesis, theories of bilingual language representation, cross-language transfer, language selection and switching, simultaneous interpreting, cognitive consequences of bilingualism, the bilingual brain, and bilingual education. Antirequisite(s): Psychology 3990F taken in 2008. Prerequisite(s): Psychology 2820E or both Psychology 2800E and 2810, and one of Psychology 2134A/B, 2135A/B. Corequisite(s): Pre-or Corequisite(s): Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. back to top
