Language Development
Language Development
Overview of how children acquire language, including its relationship to cognitive, neural, and social development; child language development from infancy through adolescence; bilingual language development.
| Hours | 3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab |
| Prerequisites | None |
| Taught | Fall, Winter |
| Programs | Containing COMD 330 |
Course Outcomes:
Theories of Language Development
Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of language development (social interactionist, linguistic, emergentism).
Components of Language
Define the major components of language (syntax, semantic, phonology, morphology, & pragmatics).
Cultural Factors of Language Development
Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural factors influence first and second language development.
Developmental Sequence of Language Behaviors
Demonstrate knowledge of the developmental sequence of pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and morphologic language behaviors in production and comprehension modalities.
Development of Literacy
Demonstrate knowledge of the development of literacy.