Instructor
Michele Stewart


Contact Hours

Mon 3-4pm
Room: Rm 03

Tue
2-3pm Rm 01




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
L21A Language Acquisition
HomeSyllabusSupplementary
Syllabus:
WEEK 1 – WEEK OF SEP 5TH

Background Concepts
Foster-Cohen Chapter 1 Pages 1-15
Owens Chapter 1 Pages 3-29

WEEK 2 – WEEK OF SEP 12TH

A History of L1A/ Genl Developmental Stages
Ingram Chapter 2 Pages 7-29 History
Chapter 3 Pages 32-38 Stages
Owens Chapter 3 Pages 67-72 Stages

WEEK 3 – WEEK OF SEP 19TH

Pre-linguistic Communication
Foster-Cohen Chapter 2 Pages 16-30
Foster Chapter 2 Pages 29-43
Reich Chapter 1 Pages 1-15; 27-33

WEEK 4 – WEEK OF SEP 26TH

Transcription & Data Analysis
Foster-Cohen Appendix 1 Pages 203-209
Ingram Chapter 1 Pages 1-31
Foster Chapter 6 Pages 190-201

WEEK 5 – WEEK OF OCT 3RD
Morphological Development
Foster-Cohen Chapter 3 Pages 42-53
Ingram Chapter 6 Pages 139-160

WEEK 6 – WEEK OF OCT 10TH Assignment # 1 due Tue Oct 11th 2pm
Phonological Development
Foster-Cohen Chapter 3 Pages 35-42
Reich Chapter 2 Pages 53-63
WEEK 7 – WEEK OF OCT 17TH (One lecture only)
Theories of Language Acquisition
Foster Chapter 5 Pages 131-141
Reich Chapter 7 Pages 281-293, 319-326
WEEK 8 – WEEK OF OCT 24TH
Syntactic Development
Foster-Cohen Chapter 4 Pages 62-86
Reich Pgs 76-83 (Teleg., Pivot);106-124 (Neg, Questions)

II 2nd LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA)

WEEK 10 – WEEK OF NOV 7TH Assignment # 2 due Tue Nov 8th 2pm
Issues in SLA; Brief History of the Field/ Learning English in the Jamaican Context
Mitchell/ Myles Chapter 1
Ellis 1997 Chapters 1 and 2 (also Ellis 1985 Chs 1 & 2)
Mitchell/ Myles Chapter 2 History
WEEK 11 – WEEK OF NOV 14TH
Interlanguage/ Theories of SLA
Ellis 1985 Chapter 3 Interlanguage
(Ellis 1997 Chapters 3, 6 & 7 Interlanguage)
Mitchell/ Myles Chapter 3 Theories
(Lightbown/ Spada Chapter 2:35-46) Theories
(Ellis 1985 Chapter 10) Theories

WEEK 12 – WEEK OF NOV 21ST
Variables/ Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH)
Ellis 1997 Chapter 8 Variables
Ellis 1985 Chapter 5 Variables
(Larsen-Freeman/ Long Chapter 6 Variables)
Lightbown/ Spada Pgs 60-68 CPH
Larsen-Freeman/ Long Pgs 153-167 CPH
(Ellis 1985 Pgs 105-110 CPH)

WEEK 13 – WEEK OF NOV 28TH
Wrap-up/ Review


 

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