Videos/Films about Bilingual Language Development or Language use?

[Brian MacWhinney]

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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