Multilingualism and Cognition

6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4020085ENR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.

Semester

1e semester

Inschrijving onder examencontract

Niet mogelijk

Beoordelingsvoet

Beoordeling (0 tot 20)

2e zittijd mogelijk

Onderwijstaal

Engels

Onder samenwerkingsakkoord

Onder interuniversitair akkoord mbt. opleiding

Faculteit

Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte

Verantwoordelijke vakgroep

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Externe partnerinstelling(en)

Universiteit Gent

Onderwijsteam

Esli Struys (titularis)
Mathieu Declerck

Onderdelen en contacturen

13 contacturen Hoorcollege
13 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
75 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen

Inhoud

This course focuses on the mental processes that are involved in understanding, producing, and controlling multiple languages in the multilingual individual. The first part of this course will provide an overview of the four main approaches involved in the study of language and the brain: 1) the behavioural approach; 2) the neuroimaging approach; 3) the clinical approach; 4) the computational approach. In the second part, we consider the mental processes involved in multilingual word recognition and production. In the third part, the important concept of bilingual language control is introduced, to conclude with a fourth part which will involve a discussion whether or not these control processes are specific to the language domain or domain-general. In this final section, the current bilingual advantage debate is used as an illustration as to how knowledge is constructed in the field of multilingualism and cognition. Special attention is given to the variety of different types of individual multilingualism that in interaction with society may shape cognitive processing in the multilingual brain.

This course makes use of the principles of blended learning which means that students prepare the classes on their own or in group based on provided content, and then elaborate on this content during the lectures by means of interactive class discussions.

Studiemateriaal

Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Powerpoint slides in pdf and ppt are made available, aangereikt door de docent

Bijkomende info

Esli.Struys@vub.be

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

Students know and have insight into the main theoretical frameworks about language and cognitive processing in multilingual individuals and they can explain the mutual relationships between these frameworks.

Students can provide an evidence-based contribution to ongoing debates on the relationship between multilingualism and cognition.

Students can critically reflect on a recent research article in the field of multilingualism and cognition and they can communicate their reflections in a written report.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

Paper met een wegingsfactor 20 en aldus 100% van het totale eindcijfer.

Toelichting: Paper with a critical reflection on a chosen article on multilingualism and cognition

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

All information regardig evaluation will be announced timely on the online learning platform. The student is responsible for ensuring that he/she is registered on the online learning platform. If the student encounters problems with the registration on the online learning platform, he/she is expected to notify the teacher as soon as possible by email.

If the student has not submitted a paper, he/she will be given an ‘absent’ score. The paper will be evaluated with the assistance of software for detecting plagiarism. The usage of generative AI is allowed to support the writing process in any possible way. Every usage of generative AI must be reported using the imposed reference style.

Students will have to assess other group members and themselves on a number of criteria. This will result in an individual score that will be used to modify the group score (= the intrinsic value of the group paper) for each individual group member. This individual modification will be executed by multiplication of the group score by the individual score. This modified score will have a weight of 100% in the final score for the whole course. If a student does not fill out the peer assessment within the set deadline, the teacher may decide to grant a null score to the student for that specific evaluation component. The teacher has the final say in this whole process and thus may decide to strengthen, weaken, or even not to take into account the obtained scores if they turn out to be unreliable. This decision will only be taken in exceptional circumstances, and must always be based on clear arguments, analyses, and/or additional observations/conversations.

The evaluation components are the same for the first and the second session. The results of individual components may, upon written request of the student via email, be transferred to the next exam session.

Within this course, students may receive the possibility to acquire a credit by participation to one or multiple experiments that are organized within the research group. Students who do not wish or who cannot participate to the (whole) experiment will receive another assignment that corresponds to the scope of the experiment.

Toegestane onvoldoende

Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context