COMD 321
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Language Development
Communication Disorders
David O. McKay School of Education
Course Description
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.
When Taught
Fall; Winter.
Min
3
Fixed
3
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3
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0
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of language development (social interactionist, linguistic, emergentism).
Learning Outcome
Define the major components of language (syntax, semantic, phonology, morphology, & pragmatics).
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural factors influence first and second language development.
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the developmental sequence of pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and morphologic language behaviors in production and comprehension modalities.
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the development of literacy.
