Instructor:
Jyun-gwang Chen, Ph.D. Class
meeting: Wednesday
Office: Room
1014
Room 1002
Phone: 2341-9812 ext. 14 Office
hours: by appointment
E-mail:
fredchen@cc.ntnu.edu.tw
This course is an
introduction to psycholinguistics. Through readings, class discussion, and
written reports student will learn about selected topics in the domain of
psycholinguistic inquiry. Topics will include the relationship between
linguistics and psychology; language, culture, and universalism; social roots
of language development; children’s early language
development; children’s late language development; lexicon and meaning;
sentence processing; bilingualism and second language acquisition; language acquisition
and teaching, and biological foundations of language and neurolinguistics.
Course Requirements and Evaluation
Students are
expected to critically read book chapters and several articles each week in
preparation for class discussion. In addition, there will be an oral
presentation, a reflective essay, and a final project.
a.
Class
Participation (viz. discussion, journals, and assignments) 20%
b.
Oral
Presentation 20%
c.
Reflective
Essay 20%
d.
Final
Project 40%
Texts
Berk, L. E. & Winsler, A. (1995). Scaffolding
Children’s Learning: Vygostky and Early Childhood Education.
Carroll, D. W. (1999). Psychology of Language.
(3rd ed.). Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
Gleason, J. B.
& Ratner, N. B. (1998). Psycholinguistics (2nd ed.). Harcourt Brace.
Hatch, E. M. (1983).
Psycholinguistics: A Second Language Perspective.
Jin, Hong-gang (1994). Yu Yan
Fa Zhan Xin Li Xue (The Psychology of Language Development).
Pinker, S. (1994). The
Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.
Richards J. C., Platt, J., & Platt, H (1998). The English-Chinese Edition of Longman Dictionary of Language
Teaching & Applied Linguistics. HK: Longman.
Vygotsky,
L. (1986). Language
and Thought.
A collection of selected articles to be xeroxed