Byelingual II: when you speak two languages but start to lose vocabulary in both of them. Language Attrition Research.

Course Description

This seminar will focus on understanding what language attrition is and how to research it.

Attrition cannot be understood without making clear concepts like L1, Mother tongue, L2, FL, and Heritage languages ​​among others. Are all kind of attrition the same? Are attrition and bilingualism always related?

Linguistic and extralinguistic factors, how to 'measure' and study them will be addressed together with the last insights into the field. This will be achieved through the basic bibliography, recent papers, and cases from famous people, and (hopefully) real data.

 

Course Goals

- (Re)Learn theory about bilingualism (/multilingualism)

- Learn the key aspects of attrition

- Understand the methods used in scientific papers about attrition

- Learn the process of preparing a study (from zero to hero!)

- It is expected the student will improve several soft skills as well, among them:

•  scientific reading (how to read, and understand a scientific paper and/or chapter of a book)
• summarizing (from reading a text, listening to a talk, …)
• presentation

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