Aspects of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Course content

The course is aims to introduce students to various aspects of multilingualism with a cross-disciplinary perspective. The course will include linguistic, cognitive, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of bi-/multilingualism. Some of the topic that will be covered are definition and development of multilingualism, linguistic behaviors of multilinguals, the psycholinguistic and cognitive bases of multilingualism, societal multilingualism, language maintenance and loss, and multilingual identity.