COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 3007 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EDA CAN KÖKMEN

Offered to

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to examine the subjects such as historical development and progress of the area of psycholinguistics, language acquisition processes, language and mind, the comprehension and production of speech, language and speech disorders.


Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Identify the concept of psycholinguistics
2   Explain and define the fields of psycholinguistics
3   Evaluate the relation between language and mind
4   Express the stages of mother language acquisition
5   Compare and contrast the difference between language and speech disorders
6   Identify the speech disorders

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of psycholinguistics
2 Working areas of psycholinguistics and Interdisciplinary cooperation
3 Language and thought/mind
4 The properties of language, animal communication and human language, wild children and language, critical language hypothesis
5 Language learning theories
6 Language competence
7 Language competence in Turkish
8 Mid-term exam
9 Bilingualism
10 Sign language
11 Language and brain
12 Language and speech
13 Language and speech disorders
14 Psycholinguistic studies

Recomended or Required Reading

Clark, H. H., & Clark, E. V. (1980). Psychology and language. An introduction to psycholinguistics.
Christiansen, M. H., & Chater, N. (Eds.). (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics. Greenwood Publishing
Group.
Field, J. (2004). Psycholinguistics: The key concepts. Psychology Press.
Foss, D. J., Hakes, D. T., & Psycholinguistics, A. (1978). an Introduction to the Psychology of
Language. PrenticeHall, EnglewoodCliffs NJ.
Greene, J. (1972). Psycholinguistics: Chomsky and psychology.
Garnham, A. (2013). Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics): Central Topics. Psychology Press.
Hatch, E. M. (1983). Psycholinguistics: A Second Language Perspective. Newbury House Publishers, Inc.,
Rowley, MA 01969.
Kutas, M., & Van Petten, C. (1994). Psycholinguistics electrified. Handbook of psycholinguistics, 83-143.
Massaro, D. W. (Ed.). (2014). Understanding language: An information-processing analysis of speech
perception, reading, and psycholinguistics. Academic Press.
McNeill, D. (1970). The acquisition of language: The study of developmental psycholinguistics.
Peterson, C. (2013). Developmental psycholinguistics: Three ways of looking at a child s narrative.
Rommetveit, R. (2014). Words, Meaning, and Messages: Theory and Experiments in Psycholinguistics.
Academic Press.
Springer Science & Business Media.
Smith, F. (1973). Psycholinguistics and reading. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Steinberg, D. D., Nagata, H., & Aline, D. P. (2013). Psycholinguistics: language, mind and world.
Routledge.
Steinberg, D. D., & Sciarini, N. V. (2013). An introduction to psycholinguistics. Routledge.
Traxler, M., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (Eds.). (2011). Handbook of psycholinguistics. Academic Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Discussion
4. Question and answer
5. Research activities via library and internet.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + FN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + BUT * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1-5 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams.
2. Learning outcomes 6 will be evaluated via the presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 1- 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. 2- Attendance to the classes and presentations will be taken into consideration during the evaluation process.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

eda.can@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours




Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 101

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.155
LO.255
LO.334
LO.434
LO.555
LO.64