Course Description
SPAN 345: Bilingualism in the Spanish World
This course will first explore the nature of bilingualism, focusing on its neurolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic aspects. Students will examine the most important concepts and research questions in these areas. In addition, the class will focus on bilingualism in the United States and the Spanish-speaking world, including the examination of bilingual education programs (e.g., immersion programs) and important political matters connected to them. (Prereq: Any Spanish 300 or 400 level course)
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Meets MLO1 and MLO2
https://csumb.edu/course/span/345
https://csumb.edu/catalog/course-descriptions
Meets MLO1 and MLO2
Course Narrative:
Something that I enjoyed doing in this class was to investigate. Particularly the dialects studied since I learned that some of these dialects were becoming extinct with the passage of time because the new generations neglect speaking it. This is very unfortunate because when a language is neglected a ripple effect occurs. When a language is no longer spoken, communication between generations is difficult, and the culture is eventually eliminated along with one's identity.
In this class we learned about the change of code in the language of Hispanics where most of the individuals who are bilingual speaking both Spanish and English for example, are more likely to mix the languages and more common to make this change when holding a conversation.
We also learned about the morphological level of speech which is the part of linguistics that studies the structure of words. Additionally, we also studied the phonological - sound of languages, the physical and acoustic articulation, that we could see in different Latin American countries.
Another important thing was that we made a presentation about the native-speaking dialects that exist in the different Spanish-speaking countries. Please click on the link below to view a collaborative power point.
In this class we learned about the change of code in the language of Hispanics where most of the individuals who are bilingual speaking both Spanish and English for example, are more likely to mix the languages and more common to make this change when holding a conversation.
We also learned about the morphological level of speech which is the part of linguistics that studies the structure of words. Additionally, we also studied the phonological - sound of languages, the physical and acoustic articulation, that we could see in different Latin American countries.
Another important thing was that we made a presentation about the native-speaking dialects that exist in the different Spanish-speaking countries. Please click on the link below to view a collaborative power point.
pp_dialectos_traditionales_ee_uu.pdf |