CMDS221-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014

Linguistics and Language Acquisition

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 24 February 2014
End Date: Sunday, 29 June 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 9 March 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 25 May 2014

Description

This course aims to promote knowledge and understanding of the anatomical structures and physiological processes involved in speech production and perception. The main goal is to familiarize students with the basic terms and concepts of the human speech mechanism and facilitate future studies of disorders in speech, voice, language, and hearing or related disciplines.

Restrictions

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Ondene Van Dulm

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
English grammar test 07 Apr 2014 35% This test will assess students' (i) understanding of the structural characteristics of English, and (ii) ability to analyse sentences at the clause, phrase and word levels. The test will contain (i) a number of short questions about the nature and function of certain sentence elements, and (ii) a number of sentence analysis tasks of the same kind as the class exercises.
Child case study 21 May 2014 30% For the child study, each student will record, transcribe, and analyse a sample of a preschool child's conversational language using SALT software, and report on the child's language development.
5 05 Jun 2014 35% This test will cover the content of the lectures on language acquisition, and will assess students' understanding of the theories, processes, and stages of language development, and of the social and cognitive factors that may impact the process of language acquisition

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $835.00

International fee $4,100.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Department of Communication Disorders .

All CMDS221 Occurrences

  • CMDS221-14S1 (C) Semester One 2014
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