Studies in Bilingualism

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course explores three major aspects of bilingualism: the context, the learner, and the writer. The context section introduces historical and geographical aspects of bilingualism (e.g. official/unofficial bilingualism in the Francophone world), and resulting sociolinguistic situations (e.g. diglossia/bilingualism). The main section of the course focuses on the bilingual learner (e.g. multilingual acquisition, compound bilingualism, the active lexicon in Franco-Manitoban and immersion schoolchildren). The concluding section examines examples of bilingual writing (e.g. Beckett, Green, Léveillé). Cross-listed: FREN-3205(3), LING-3305(3) and LING-4305(3). Restrictions: Honours Form Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and FREN-3205 | LING-3305 | LING-4305. Requisite Courses: 6 credit hours in 2000-level French language/linguistics, or permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)].