Teaching Staff
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Faranak Abbaszad Tehrani |
Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
Prerequisites |
- |
Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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Course Objectives |
• To foster an understanding of the principles and processes that govern native language acquisition and
its influences in 2nd language acquisition/learning
• To foster an understanding of the principles and processes that govern second language learning and use
with respect to linguistic, cognitive and psychological perspectives.
• To understand the relationship between SLA research and second language instruction. An
understanding of the basic processes involved in second language acquisition should serve as the
background for deliberate teaching practice. |
Course Content |
Theories of first and second language acquisition (e.g.: behaviorism, innatism, information processing,
connectionism, the interactionist position) and developmental stages and sequences of first and target language
acquisition; case studies, comparative analysis of the use of native and target languages in corpus data (e.g.: CHILDES database), recordings and/or transcriptions of real second language classroom interaction for the
analysis of first and second language acquisition; comparison of second language acquisition in children and in
adults; identifying developmental sequences in first language acquisition; stages in second language morpho-syntactic
development; processes in second language acquisition; learner characteristics and individual variation
in ultimate attainment in second language acquisition.
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Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and were successful at the end of semester will acquire the followings;
LO1 - Students are expected to be aware of first and second language acquisition theories as well as the phases
and processes of first and second language acquisition.
LO2 - They are expected to be able to compare and contrast the acquisition skills of young and adult learners.
LO3 - They are expected to comprehend the importance of the factors effecting second language learning.
LO4 - They are expected to distinguish the nature of acquisition and learning. |
Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
Course Outline |
Week |
Topics |
1. Week |
Introduction to the course: basic concepts and issues, discussion: popular ideas about language learning. |
2. Week |
Language-Learning-Teaching School of Thoughts
(Behaviorism, Rationalism and Constructivism) |
3. Week |
First Language Acquisition |
4. Week |
First Language Acquisition |
5. Week |
Native Language Acquisition phases: pre-language, holophrastic, telegraphic speech |
6. Week |
Acquisition processes: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics |
7. Week |
Distinguishing acquisition and learning / native lang. Acquisition, 2 nd lang acqusition ,2nd lang learning ,
foreign language learning |
8. Week |
Midterm |
9. Week |
Educational Psychology
Approaches to Educational Psychology
(Positivist school, Cognitive Psychology) |
10. Week |
Approaches to Educational Psychology (2)
(Constructivism)
Humanism in ELT (Rogers and Maslow) |
11. Week |
Social Interactionism
(Vygotsky, Feuerstein)
How people learn? Various perspectives on learning |
12. Week |
Second language learning (1) |
13. Week |
Second language learning (2) |
14. Week |
Second language learning (3) |
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Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
Mid-term (%) |
40 |
Quizes (%) |
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Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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Practice (%) |
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Labs (%) |
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Projects/Field Work (%) |
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Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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Final (%) |
60 |
Other (%) |
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Total(%) |
100 |
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Course Book (s) and/or References |
Lightbown and Spada (1999) How Languages are Learned, Oxford Uni. Press
Gass and Selinker (2001) Second Language Acquisition: An introductory Course, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc |
Work Placement(s) |
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The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| LO1 | LO2 | LO3 | LO4 | PO1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PO2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | PO4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PO6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PO7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PO8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PO9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | PO11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PO12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | PO15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PO16 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | PO17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PO19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | PO21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | PO22 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PO24 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | PO25 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PO26 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | PO27 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | PO28 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | PO29 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
1= Very weak 2= Weak 3= Moderate 4= Strong 5= Very strong |