COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ESH 0017 PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Faculty Of Letters

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BURCU ILKAY KARAMAN

Offered to

American Culture and Literature
Archeology
Museology
.
Translation and Interpreting
.
Turkish Language and Literature
Translation and Interpreting(Turkish-German-English)
Psychology
Archeology
Comparative Literature
Sociology
Sociology
Philosophy
History
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
History
Comparative Literature

Course Objective

Understanding the characteristics of the language of psychology , biological basis of language knowledge , to explain the developmental stages of language, speech and language disorders , to define , to explain the stages of language acquisition

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the properties of language psychology
2   Being knowledgeable about the biological foundations of language
3   Explain the developmental phases of language
4   Define the langauge and speech disorders
5   Explain the phases of language acquisition

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Characteristics of the psychology of language
2 The biological foundations of language
3 Sources of evidence for the language system
4 Language acquisition in childhood Phonological development Morpho-syntactic development Semantic development Pragmatic development Reading and writing
5 Processing the language signal
6 Accessing the mental lexicon
7 Midterm Examination
8 Understanding utterances
9 Producing utterances Delay in producing utterances Some reasons Bilingualism and multilingualism
10 Impairment of processing utterances Dyslexia and disgraphia
11 Impairment of processing utterances Aphasia and Agraphia Psychosis Dementia Alzheimer
12 Impairment of processing utterances Down Syndrome Autism Asperger Syndrome
13 The role of the language and speech therapist The limits of therapy
14 Overview of course topics Preparation for the Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Ahlsén, Elisabeth (2006) Introduction to Neurolinguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2. Aitchison, Jean (2011) The Articulate Mammal An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. London & New York: Routledge.
3. Ball, Martin; Perkins, Michael R.; Müller, Nicole & Howard, Sara (2008) The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
4. Carroll, David W. (2004) Psychology of Language. Fourth ed. Belmont: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
5. Cowles, H. Wind (2011) Psycholinguistics. The Psych 101 Series. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
6. Cruse, Alan D. & Croft, William (2004) Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentations
3. Discussion and evaluation
Example 4 based approach
5. Discussion of the Example
6. Experimental Discuss
7. Experimentation

Assessment Methods

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


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

1. 1- Mid-term exam
2. 2- Final exam

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated through mid-term and final examinations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- Class attendance of 70% is obligatory.
2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for the late submission of assignments/projects.
3- Copying and plagiarising in assignments and during exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Burcu Ilkay Karaman

Office Hours

Monday 10:30 - 11:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.13355
LO.23355
LO.33355
LO.43355
LO.53355