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/Max

3

Fixed

3

Fixed

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.