Course Description
Current theories and research on bilingualism and bilingual education.
Athena Title
Bilingualism and Bilingual Ed
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 6631
Non-Traditional Format
This course will be taught 95% or more online.
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will: 1. explore the social, emotional, political, pedagogical, and cognitive dimensions of bilingualism through readings and project work; 2. become familiar with state-wide and national language policies, past and present; 3. examine various aspects of bilingual education programs located in the United States and elsewhere; 4. become critically reflexive about their own linguistic history and create a linguistic autobiography; 5. become knowledgeable of web-based resources on bilingualism and bilingual education; 6. examine the relationship between language, culture, economics and power; 7. compare and contrast the immigration and bilingual experiences of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the United States and internationally; 8. apply course concepts to a final project related to individual and social aspects of bilingualism and bilingual education.
Topical Outline
1. Linguistic Introductions: Who speaks what to whom, how, and for what purposes? 2. What is bilingualism? a. social phenomenon b. individual phenomenon 3. Second Language Learning and Identity: What's at stake? 4. Historical and international perspectives on bilingualism and language planning 5. What does bilingual education look like? a. Sample Program models b. typologies c. investments 6. Strong forms of bilingual education a. language and content integration b. American sign language and bilingualism 7. Bilingual education: Supporters and detractors a. Proposition 227 b. English only/Plus c. Caution, critique, and performance 8. Bilingual literacies 9. Code-switching and bilingual development 10. Bilingual theories, cognition, and the brain 11. Dialects and varieties of language: Bilingualism and bidialectalism 12. Dialects and varieties of language: Classroom applications
Syllabus
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