Videos/Films about Bilingual Language Development or Language use?

[Lynn Santelmann]

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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Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97201-0751
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e-mail: santelmannl at pdx.edu (that's last name, first initial)
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