Dil Edinimi(Language Acquisition)

Lecturer: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi M. Fatih Adıgüzel

RESOURCES :

1.How languages are learned. 4th Edition. (Lightbown & Spada)

2.Princinciples of language learning and teaching (Douglas Brown)

ASSESSMENT : Midterm exam 40 % Presentations for Final : 60 %

DİL EDİNİMİ (LANGUAGE ACQUISITION) COURSE SCHEDULE

WEEK TOPICS Methods and Techniques

Orientation on the course objectives & bilateral

Week 1
expectations

First Language Acquisition (Ch1 Lightbown &

Week 2
Spada)

Week 3 First Language Acquisition

Second language Learning (Ch2 Lightbown &

Week 4
Spada)

Week 5 Second language Learning

Week 6 Individual Differences (Ch3 Lightbown & Spada)

Week 7 Individual Differences

Week 8 Mid-term exam

Student presentations +
Week 9 Affective Factors (Ch6. Douglas Brown)
discussion

Student presentations +
Week 10 Affective Factors
discussion

Perspectives on second language learning (Ch4 Student presentations +

Week 11
Lightbown & Spada) discussion

Student presentations +
Week 12 Perspectives on second language learning
discussion

Language culture and identity (Ch7. Douglas Student presentations +

Week 13
Brown) discussion

Student presentations +
Week 14 Language culture and identity
discussion

Week 15 Final Grading the presentations

PRESENTATION PLAN

Presentation 1 : Affective factors Copy (Chapter 6) pages 143-155

Presentation 2 : Affective factors Copy (Chapter 6) pages 158-166

Presentation 3 : Explaining second language learning. (Chapter 4) Pages 97-100 Behaviourist

perspective + Innatist perspective

Presentation 4 : Explaining second language learning. (Chapter 4) Pages 101-109

Cognitive perpective

Presentation 5 : Language, Culture and Identity. (Chapter 7) Pages 174-179 174-183

Presentation 6 : Language, Culture and Identity. (Chapter 7) Pages 180-186 184-191

(Ideology başlığına kadar)

Presentation 7 : Language, Culture and Identity. (Chapter 7) Pages 186-194 192-189

Course Objectives

Theories of first and second language acquisition (behaviourism, innateness, information processing,
connectionist models, interactional approach); developmental stages and processes of first and
second languages; case studies, comparative analysis of first and second language use from corpus
data, comparison of second language acquisition in children and adults through recordings and
transcriptions of classroom second language interaction, developmental stages in first language
acquisition, stages of morpho-syntactic development in second language, second language
acquisition processes, learner characteristics in second language acquisition and individual
differences in final acquisition (e.g. personality influence, language ability, intelligence, age of
acquisition, motivation and attitude, learner preferences and beliefs)