COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YDI 5020 PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 8

Offered By

English Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FATMA FERYAL ÇUBUKÇU

Offered to

English Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim is to familiarize the students with the principles of how it is possible to communicate arbitrary ideas through thin air via sound waves , how language is represented, processed and acquired, with a concentration on how language is comprehended in real time. In this course the aim is also to concentrate mostly on information processing above the word level , to discuss sound and word-level information processing, syntax; sentence comprehension; semantic, pragmatic and discourse comprehension; intonation; neural networks and language processing; neural imaging and language processing; language production; visual word recognition; and the relationship between language and thought.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   define the basic concepts related to psycholinguistics
2   develop an awareness of English as a linguistic system and of related sub-disciplines
3   gain intellectual skills demonstrating the ability to devise, research and communicate analyses of topics
4   provide students with an insight into the basic concepts of the area of study, namely, the acquisition, perception and comprehension of language, in order to explore the relationship between language, thought and culture.
5   show how it is possible to apply the knowledge into the texts, conversations, Freudian slips, court trials and other areas

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the content of the course
2 The basic concepts related to psycholinguistics
3 Brain and language
4 speech perception
5 word recognition
6 sentenc eprocessing
7 sentence production
8 mid term exam
9 applied psycholinguistics
10 figurative language
11 Language development and lexicon
12 Language development and emotion
13 thought and language
14 applications
15 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Abbot, Smith, K. & M. Tomasello. (2010). The influence of frequency and semantic similarity on
how children learn grammar. First Language 30.1: 79-101.
Gries, St. Th. & S. Wulff. (2005). Do foreign language learners have constructions too Evidence
from priming, sorting, and corpora. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3: 182-200.
Herrmann., E. & M. Tomasello. (2006). Apes and children s understanding of cooperative and
competitive motives in a communicative situation. Developmental Science 9.5: 518-529.
James, L. E. & D. M. Burke. (2000). Phonological priming effects on word retrieval and tip of the tongue experiences in young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: 26.6: 1378-1391.
Jay, Timothy (2004) The Psychology of Language NJ. Pearson

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

lecturing, discussion, question-answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

fcubukcu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

wednesdays 10.00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 13 4 52
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 8 104
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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