Student Contact Hours: 90
Maximum Mark: 50
- Internal Assessment: 15
- Annual Examination: 35
F 2.4 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION SYLLABUS
Unit 1
Language and cognition : cognitive prerequisites for language acquisition; biological foundations; language and thought, innatist hypothesis; cognitive, social and linguistic development; Piagetian and Vygotskian perspectives.
Unit 2
Language development : the earliest stages and the babbling period; stages of language development; the role of motherese and caretaker speech; phonology; morphology; syntax and semantics; sociolinguistic aspects.
Unit 3
Comprehension and production : perceptual strategies; perception of speech and speech comprehension; notions of complexity; speech production; encoding and performance measure; the role of errors in language production.
Unit 4
Formal means of language acquisition with special reference to reading and writing : learning to read and understand; measures of readability; schema theory; using cloze, dictation and translation with children; mechanics of writing; representational systems; teaching writing.
Unit 5.
Language disorders : learning about language by studying language disorders; brain structure and functions; inhibitions; stuttering; aphasia; language among the mentally retarded.
Unit 2 and 5 will have g corresponding practicum.
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