ALM5290 - Child language acquisition
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Dr Heather Bowe
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
Children's acquisition of their first language, from infant pre-speech to adolescence. Different views of language acquisition and learning. The acquisition of phonological, morphological and syntactic systems, the development of word meaning and the acquisition of communicative competence. Students specialise in one of the above areas in the preparation of a research project.
Assessment
Written Work (9,000 words in total): 100%
13 October 2017
22 December 2024