COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FRA 3011 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

French Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DUYGU ÖZTIN PASSERAT

Offered to

French Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The purpose of the course is to introduce language awareness, to give information about acquisition of mother tongue and stages of language acquisition, the differences between mother tongue and foreign language, to understand the importance of learning the second language at an early age, to teach stages of language acquisition.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To see the differences between mother tongue, second language and foreign language
2   Students evaluate stages of mother tongue acquisition.
3   They question the relationship between language and brain.
4   They know the functions of brain sections related to language such as Wernick and Broka areas, Rolando cleft, right hemisphere and left hemisphere.
5   They know the functions between mother tongue acquisition and foreign language learning.
6   They know to use some features of mother tongue acquisition in the process of foreign language learning.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 What is acquisition Differences among acquisition/learning/teaching
2 How does a child acquire his/her language To start stages of language acquisition
3 The period of pre-language stage, stages of word-sentence
4 Syntactic stage and developed stage
5 The theories and thoughts of language acquisition
6 Samples and evaluations related to phonetic acquisition
7 Levels of child s word acquisition
8 General review, Course evaluation, Midterm exam
9 Studies about syntax and advanced level
10 Psycholinguistics and language acquisition
11 Behavourism, psychology and language acquisition
12 Language and brain
13 Broka and Wernick areas
14 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

BOYSSON-BARDIES, Bénédicte de (2001) Comment La Parole Vient Aux Enfants Paris : Odile Jakob.
BRONCKART J.P., KAIL M., NOIZET G., (1983) Psycholinguistique de l'enfant, DELACHAUX-NIESTLE.
BRUNER, J.S., (1982) Savoir-faire, Savoir dire, Paris : PUF
CRY, Paul (1998) Les Stratégies d Apprentissage, Paris : CLE International.
DUCHET, Jean-Louis (1981) La Phonologie, Paris : PUF, Que sais-je
HALTE, Jean-François (2006) Entre enseignement et acquisition: Problèmes didactiques en apprentissage du langage Mélanges CRAPEL, Université Nancy 2, n° 29 (n° spécial : Acquisition : implications didactiques), [13-28]
MALMBERG, Bertil (1984) La Phonétique, Paris : PUF, Que sais-je
MALMBERG, Bertil (1984) La Phonétique, Paris : PUF, Que sais-je
MERESSE-POLAERT J., (1969) Étude sur le langage des enfants de 6 ans, DELACHAUX-NIESTLE.
RONDAL, J.A. (1987). Les retards de langage, premiers indices et rééducation. Glossa, les Cahiers de l'Unadrio, no. 4, pp. 28-35.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, discussions, question-answer, presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

French

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

duygu.oztin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 58

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.144
LO.244
LO.344
LO.444
LO.544
LO.654

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