Undergraduate Course: Child Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (LASC10077)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course provides an overview of current research on child bilingualism from the perspectives of linguistics and cognitive psychology. It focuses on language separation, bilingual lexical and grammatical development, code-switching, and the effects of early bilingualism on general cognition. It also provides elements of methodology and data analysis that will enable students to carry out research with bilingual children. |
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Linguistics/Language Sciences courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay 50%; 2 hour exam 50% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Child Bilingualism: Language and Cognition | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
The course will equip students with an understanding of current experimental linguistic and psychological research on child bilingualism and with an ability to plan research projects in this area.
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Reading List
Bialystok, E. 2003. Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bialystok, E., Craik, F., Green, D. and Gollan, T. 2009. Bilingual minds. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 10: 89¿129.
Byers-Heinlein, K., & Werker, J.F. 2009. Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: Infants¿ language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. Developmental Science 12, 815¿823.
De Groot, A. 2011. Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals. Hove: Psychology Press.
De Houwer, A. 2007. Parental language input patterns and children¿s bilingual use. Applied Psycholinguistics 28: 411-424.
De Houwer, A. 2009. Bilingual First Language Acquisition. Channel Books.
Sorace, A. and Serratrice, L. 2009. Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap. International Journal of Bilingualism 13: 92-125.
Sorace, A., Serratrice, L. Filiaci, F. and Baldo, M. 2009. Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children. Lingua 119: 460-477.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Teaching Contact Time: 9 weeks out of 11 at 3 hours/week = 27 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Antonella Sorace
Tel: (0131 6)50 3493
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Samantha Bell
Tel: (0131 6)50 3602
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