COMD 330
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 and Winter
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
Min
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Title
Components of Language
Learning Outcome
Define the major components of language (syntax, semantic, phonology, morphology, & pragmatics).
Title
Cultural Factors of Language Development
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural factors influence first and second language development.
Title
Developmental Sequence of Language Behaviors
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the developmental sequence of pragmatic, semantic, syntactic, and morphologic language behaviors in production and comprehension modalities.
Title
Development of Literacy
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the development of literacy.
Title
Theories of Language Development
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of language development (social interactionist, linguistic, emergentism).
