Language Acquisition

Code:

CL002

Acronym:

AQUL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Linguistics

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Language Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	24	study plan	2	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To make students aware of basic, introductory aspects of psycholinguistics; to develop students’ critical reasoning.

Learning outcomes and competences

 

To enable the students to deal critically with topics related to this curricular unit and to write academic works with the rigor required at this level.

 

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Biological foundations of human language.
2. The critical period of language acquisition.
3. Cognitive aspects of language acquisition and development.
    3.1. Cognitive and modular approaches.
4. The constructivist approach to language acquisition.
    4.1. Brief approach to the acquisition of different linguistic subsystems.
5.Introduction to Language Processing 
    5.1. Brain Areas of language processing
    5.2. Interface Systems 
    5.3. Language deficits 
    5.4. Models of Language Processing.

Mandatory literature

Girolami, Andrée; Controle das Aptidões para a Leitura e a Escrita, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2006
Girolami-Boulinier, A.; Les niveaux actuels dans la pratique du langage oral et écrit, Masson, 1984
Girolami-Boulinier, A. ; L’apprentissage de l’oral et de l’écrit, PUF, 1993
Lenneberg, E. H.; Fundamientos biológicos del lenguaje, Alianza, 1975
McCune-Nicolich & Shelley Carroll ; "Development of symbolic play: implications for the language specialist"
Piaget, J. ; A formação do símbolo na criança, Zahar, 1975
Piaget, J.; Inhelder, B. ; La psychologie de l’enfant, PUF, 1975
Pinto, M. da G. L. C. ; Abordagem a alguns aspectos da compreensão verbal na criança, INIC, 1988
Pinto, M. da G. C. ; Desenvolvimento e distúrbios da linguagem, Porto Editora, 1984
Pinto, Maria da Graça L. C.; Da Psicolinguística: um verbete que se tornou ensaio. , Faculdade de Letras da UP/Col. CAPFLUP, 2009
Sinclair-de Zwart, H. ; Acquisition du langage et développement de la pensée, Dunod, 1967
Sinclair, H. et coll.; La production de notations chez le jeune enfant, PUF, 1988

Comments from the literature

Complementary bibliography will be supplied during the semester.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theorethical, practical and tutorial sessions.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	66,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	42,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Number of absences from class, tutorials and laboratory practice must not exceed the number stated in the course regulations and other applicable regulations.

Calculation formula of final grade

Result of the adopted assessment component.

Examinations or Special Assignments

As per the legal regulations in force at the University of Porto.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The same evaluation criteria apply to students with special status, who should contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester to agree on the support to be provided.

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force. Students with special status (Article 14) will have access to the supplementary periods provided for by law and to a specific absence policy. Besides this possibility, there are no alternative assessment models to those in force for other students.

Classification improvement

Students may improve their marks at the "Exame de Recurso" chosing the part of the evaluation where they find that they may get a better mark.