Course Number-Span 345
Title-Bilingualism in the Spanish-Speaking World
Course Description
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.
Meets MLO 1-6
Course Description
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.
Meets MLO 1-6
Course Reflection Narrative
In SPAN 345, we started by examining bilingualism's linguistic, neurolinguistic, and psycholinguistic features. The key ideas and research issues in these areas were also recognized, centered on bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world and the United States. We also looked at significant political issues related to multilingual education initiatives like immersion programs. We were given a job to identify a separate language or dialect in groups of three. My group identified Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as well as all the various languages that are spoken there and a great deal more information concerning language in the nation. The class I took helped me learn different Spanish-speaking dialects and also gave me an understanding of how the brain processes learning one or more languages at once. I appreciate all that the professor covered in the course, and I thank them. My perspective on the Spanish-speaking world and many other topics was greatly expanded by it. As I had indicated when we completed an assignment called our Autobiographical Linguistic, which covered our own personal experiences through Spanish, I would like to improve and work on my grammar in Spanish. I believe that I am much better able to learn Spanish words, phrases, etc. This course relates to one other course I have taken which is SPAN 301 because they both cover how to view words and how to pronounce them the right way in Spanish. After taking the course I plan to continue improving my proficiency and writing skills in any way that I can.