MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

LIN2550

Second language acquisition and attrition

M Clyne

8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: LIN1010 and LIN1020 + Prohibitions: Should not be taken by students who have already completed GRN2430 or GRN3430, CHI2550, CHI3550, ITA2550, ITA3550, MGR3550 or SPN3550. Students specialising in Chinese, German, Italian, Modern Greek or Spanish should take, instead, CHI2550, GRN2430, ITA2550 or SPN2550

Synopsis The distinction between language learning and acquisition; the social context of these; the relation between first, second and bilingual acquisition; interlanguage and interference; grammaticalisation phases; factors in successful second language acquisition; bilingual education; attrition as the inverse of acquisition; activation and reactivation of language skills.

Assessment Written assignments (3000 words): 40% + Class test (2 hours): 40% + Class paper: 20%

Prescribed texts

Ellis R The study of second language acquisition OUP, 1994

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