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Topics in Psycholinguistics
* A series of articles will be provided.
* Subtext: Psycholinguistics by Thomas Scovel, Oxford University Press
This seminar sets out to explore some of the main topics in the field of psycholinguistics.
It will consider issues related to language acquisition, language production,
language comprehension, and language loss. We will study, for instance, how
children learn/acquire their first language, whether or not animals have language
and what this tells us about human language production. We will look at sign
language and what it tells us about language processing. We will also consider
the critical age hypothesis by looking at children deprived of language—‘wild children’.
(See complete topic listing at the end of doc.)
This seminar will also explore some of the general themes related to language, culture
or even tourism. This will be accomplished through student generated research
projects. Students will be required to work together in small groups on outside
research projects, and then to present their results to the class as a whole.
Student presentations can take the form of class discussions, Power Point
presentation, poster presentations, or even debates.
All work will be conducted in English. Students considering this seminar
should have a real interest in language and culture, and should have a
desire to improve their English communicative skills.

For further information on the seminar, please view the homepage for
this seminar.
http://www2.dokkyo.ac.jp/~esemi020/
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Contents of Course Text:
How Children Learn Language
The Deaf and Language: Sign, Oral, Written
Reading Principles and Teaching
Wild & Isolated Children and the Critical Age Issue for L1 Acquisition
Animals and Language Learning
Children vs. Adults in SLL
Second Language Teaching Methods
Bilingualism, Intelligence, Transfer and Learning Strategies
Language and the Brain
Where Does Language Knowledge Come From? Innate? Learned?
Language, Thought and Culture