COURSE SYLLABUS

LANGUAGE ACQUSITION

1	Course Title:	LANGUAGE ACQUSITION
2	Course Code:	TUR0002
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	2
6	Semester:	4
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	4
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	German
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. FERHAT ENSAR
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	ferhatensar@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	The purpose of this class is to present both the theoretical and practical aspects of language acquisition. Within this context, emphasis will be placed on psycholinguistics too. Language acquisition period (process) Summarize, with all its aspects, how the language acquisition process happens.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

Learning Outcomes:

1	Explains the language acquisition process;
2	Knows language acquisition approaches;
3	Can define the concept of psycholinguistics;
4	Can explain the working areas of psycholinguistics;
5	Can introduce the stages of the mother tongue acquisition process;
6	Can compare the difference between speech and language disorders;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introducing the course content and resources. Linguistics and psycholinguistics.
2	Language acquisition and introduction of field-specific study topics: Research areas of psycholinguistics.
3	Interdisciplinary collaboration of psycholinguistics. Introducing the stages of language acquisition starting from how children acquired the language. Introducing the studies on systems (sound, meaning, form, etc.) on data collection methods and Turkish language acquisition (Gökmen, ADN).
4	Language acquisition. Language acquisition theories.
5	The conditions necessary for language acquisition to take place.
6	Features of language acquisition.
7	Language acquisition and early literacy: the acquisition of nominal and operational concepts.
8	Discussion on the first object and action concepts.
9	Observations on the preschool period: The road to literacy.
10	Usability principles and Acquisition (Gökmen, ADN).
11	Conceptual Limitations and Making Inferences with Conceptual Knowledge (Gökmen, ADN).
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23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Nelson, K. 1973. Structure and strategy in learning to talk. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 38-149. Clark, H. & E., Clark (1977) Psychology and Language, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pub. Clark, E. (1993) The Lexicon in Acquisition, Cambridge Üniversity Press Berko Gleason, J. (1993). The development of language (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan. Goodman, Y.M., & Wilde, S. (Eds.) (1992). Literacy events in a community of young writers. New York: Teachers College Press. Hudson, R. (1992). Teaching Grammar: A Guide for the National Curriculum. Oxford: Blackwell. Virginia, Collier, (1995). Acquiring a second language for school. Directions in Language, Vol.1, No.4, George Mason University Gentner, D. 1981. Some interesting differences between verbs and nouns. Cognition and Brain Theory, 4, 161-178. Gentner, D. 1982. Why nouns are learned before verbs: linguistic relativity versus natural partitioning. In S. A. Kuczaj (Ed.) Language and Development, Vol. 2: Language, Thought and Culture, 301-334. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Slobin, D. I. & Bever, T. 1982. Children use canonical sentence schemas: a crosslinguistic study of word order and inflections. Cognition, 12. 229-265. Carroll, David W. 1994. Psychology of Language. California: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Wanner, E. and L.R. Gleitman (Eds) (1982) Language Acquisition : The State of the Art . Cambridge : C.U.P. Slobin, D.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	2	100
Final Exam	0	0
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		100
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		0
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Measurement and evaluation are performed according to the Rules & Regulations of Bursa Uludağ University on Undergraduate Education.
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High