BLE 508 Spanish Socio/PsychoLiguistics

This course provides an in-depth study of sociolinguistic issues in Spanish particularly in relationship to monolingual vs. bilingual communities. The second half of the course focuses on Psycholinguistics: the processes of language acquisition and language production, with a specific review of issues related to bilingual language learners. Advanced language proficiency is assumed. Prerequisite: BLE 500. Spring (3 credits)