Videos/Films about Bilingual Language Development or Language use?

Fri Feb 1 11:14:04 UTC 2008

Lynn, try Virginia Yap's materials on bilingual development of
Cantonese/English.

On Jan 31, 2008 3:57 PM, Lynn Santelmann <santelmannl at pdx.edu> wrote:

>
> I posted specifically about bilingual films because my extensive
> search of info-childes, LinguistList and the general internet hasn't
> revealed anything on bilingual language development, and little or
> nothing about general language use. My research has also revealed
> that the films listed in the info-childes archives are still out
> there and seem to be the ones most accessible.
>
> I did come across one (just one) recent film about code-switching in
> Hong Kong from Films For the Humanities:
> Multilingual Hong Kong: A Sociolinguistic Case Study of Code-Switching
>
> http://ffh.films.com/id/12333/Multilingual_Hong_Kong_A_Sociolinguistic_Case_Study_of_Code-Switching.htm
>
>
> Annenberg Media (www.learner.org) also has free Video On Demand
> segments that you can down load. In it's resources on "The Mind"
> (http://www.learner.org/resources/series150.html#) it's got one older
> 7 minute segment on the bilingual brain (from 1999), and I'm not sure
> how accurate it still is.
>
>
> Films for the Humanities also offers 1-2 older films on language
> development (one called language development). The annenberg media
> site also has some (now older) resources for general cognitive
> development/cognitive psychology. Those include some short segments
> on bilingualism.
>
> Lynn
>
>
>
>
> At 01:03 PM 1/31/2008, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>
> >Susan, Lynn, and everyone,
> >
> >     Is ChatterMatters about code-switching and bilingualism or L1
> >acquisition?
> >Regarding L1 acquisition in general, let me remind people that, about
> >two years ago, we (mutually) devised
> >a list of suggested films at the sixth point
> >at  http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/teach/index.html
> >None of these deal with bilingualism, although about 3 deal partially
> >with second language learning.  Many deal with deafness.
> >
> >It would be great to add to this list, but please take a peak at what
> >we have already
> >located and let's try to expand this list.  Also, I could try to
> >organize it a bit better perhaps.
> >
> >My personal favorite for multilingualism  is "The Cuckoo" which deals
> >with Finnish, Russian, Saami
> >mutual understanding and radical misunderstanding in World War II in
> >Finland.
> >It seems to me there are some Indian films that deal with
> >multilingualism, but
> >usually as a side issue in the larger plot.  In fact, it is hard to
> >think of an Indian movie
> >that doesn't have code-switching as an issue at some point.  Can't
> >think now of the titles.
> >
> >In regard to the broader issue, there must be documentaries available
> >somehow.
> >
> >-- Brian MacWhinney
> >
> >On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Susan Foster-Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, all:
> > >
> > > Yes, I need similar materials. In fact, can we open this question up
> > > to be a recap of any and all video materials useful for language
> > > acquisition courses in general? I know about the materials on the
> > > LSA site and I've got in trouble before for telling you all that
> > > there's stuff on U-Tube, so I won't do that again :-).
> > >
> > > I have found a DVD from ChatterMatters in the UK which has quite a
> > > neat little summary of development useful for 100-level or 200-level
> > > courses as an initial orientation for students. I'll be happy to
> > > provide details of that if people are interested.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Susan Foster-Cohen
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of Santelmann, Lynn
> > > Sent: Fri 2/1/2008 7:12 AM
> > > To: Info-CHILDES
> > > Subject: Videos/Films about Bilingual Language Development or
> > > Language use?
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a small amount of money for 'curricular enhancement' and would
> > > like to buy a video or two about bilingualism. Ideally, I'd like one
> > > video that describes/demonstrates bilingual language development and
> > > one that talks about bilingual language use (e.g., code switching,
> > > language choice issues, perhaps language planning issues, etc.)
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend videos that talk about either of these topics?
> > > Note: We have vidoes on bilingual classrooms/classroom practices. I'm
> > > really looking more for the linguistics/language development side of
> > > things.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Lynn Santelmann
> > > Applied Linguistics
> > > Portland State University
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > <winmail.dat>
> >
> >
> >
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> Portland State University
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Jacquelyn Schachter
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