Last updated 3/13/09
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Winter 2009 UCSD LIGN/EDS 119 |
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Professor: Grant Goodall AP&M 4121 858-822-5768 goodall <at-sign> ling.ucsd.edu Office hours: Monday
10:00-10:50 Thursday
11:00-12:00
or by appt.
AP&M 3351E dmichel <at-sign> ling.ucsd.edu Office hours: Wednesday
12:00-12:50 Friday
10:00-10:50 |
FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING:
FROM CHILDHOOD THROUGH ADOLESCENCE
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WEEK |
TOPIC |
READING |
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1 Jan 5-9 |
Child language acquisition: a first look
Child language acquisition: an overview of the issues
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Gleitman & Newport: “The Invention of Language by Children” (In Gleitman & Liberman (eds.))
Video: “Acquiring the human language: playing the language game” (call number FVLV 2622-1) This is available for viewing at Film & Video Reserves in Geisel Library. It is 55 minutes long, and you may screen it at your convenience (but before the midterm). Study guide for video (contains the key ideas that you are responsible for and space for notes) |
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2 Jan 12-16 |
(Continuation of overview)
Development of speech perception
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Homework
#1 due on Monday, Jan. 12 Further example
of poverty of the stimulus
Werker: “Exploring Developmental Changes in
Cross-language Speech Perception” (In Gleitman
& Liberman (eds.)) Experiment participation: Register and start making plans now |
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3 Jan 21-23 |
Monday: MLK holiday
Acquisition of morphological (ir)regularity |
Pinker: “Why the Child Holded the Baby Rabbits” (In Gleitman & Liberman (eds.)) |
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4 Jan 26-30 |
(Continuation of morphological (ir)regularity)
Midterm (1/28) (Study guide)
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Homework #2 due on Monday, Jan. 26
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5 Feb 2-6 |
Acquisition with inconsistent and/or restricted input
Bilingualism |
Singleton & Newport: "When learners surpass their models: The acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input" Slides (Simon)
Bialystok, Craik, Klein & Viswanathan: "Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control" The Simon task (Try it on your friends!) |
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6 Feb 9-13 |
Attrition
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Tomiyama: “Child Second Language Attrition” (Summary of Findings, pp. 306-7) Oh, Jun, Knightly & Au: “Holding on to childhood language memory” Au, Oh, Knightly, June & Romo “Salvaging a childhood language” Slides
(Childhood language memory) Homework #3 due on Wednesday, February 11 |
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7 Feb 18-20 |
Monday: Presidents' Day
Overview of second language acquisition Age effects and the critical period
Friday: No class |
Birdsong: "Interpreting Age Effects in Second Language Acquisition" Hakuta, Bialystok & Wiley: "Critical Evidence: A Test of the Critical-Period Hypothesis for Second-Language Acquisition" Slides (Second language acquisition & critical period)
Homework #4 due on Wednesday, February 18 |
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8 Feb 23-27 |
Input in L2 acquisition
Compensating for age effects Midterm (2/27) (Study guide) |
VanPatten: ch. 1, 2
Slides (Compensating for age effects) |
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9 Mar 2-6 |
The developing L2 grammar
L2 poverty of the stimulus effects
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VanPatten: ch. 3
Slides (Output processing)
Cook: “The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument” Slides (L2 poverty of the stimulus effects) |
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10 Mar 9-13 |
Implicit and explicit L2 knowledge
Second language acquisition in the classroom
L2 acquisition of
morphological (ir)regularity |
Ellis: “Does form-focused instruction affect the acquisition of implicit knowledge?” Slides (Implicit and explicit learning)
VanPatten: Epilogue
Birdsong & Flege: “Regular-Irregular Dissociations in L2 Acquisition” Slides (Regular-irregular morphology in L2) Project due on Friday, March 13. |
Study guide for final exam NEW!!!
This schedule subject to change! Changes will be announced in class and/or on this page. Links will become activated as the quarter progresses.
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TEXTBOOK
AND OTHER READINGS |
Textbook: From Input to Output, Bill VanPatten, McGraw-Hill, 2003
Other readings: Other readings are accessible at the site for this course on WebCT.
Recordings of lectures are available at UCSD Podcast.
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HOMEWORK |
At the top of each homework assignment that you turn in, write:
Your name
LIGN or EDS (depending on which section you are enrolled in)
Homework #
You are allowed (but not encouraged) to turn in one homework late over the course of the quarter.
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GRADING |
10.0% Homework and experiment
participation
22.5% Midterm I
22.5% Midterm II
5.0% Project
40.0% Final exam (Wednesday, March 18, 8:00-10:50am)
Note: The UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship will be strictly enforced in this class. This policy may be consulted at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/manual/appendices/app2.htm#AP14