ECE 355
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Language Development
Teacher Education
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.
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3
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Title
Components of Language
Learning Outcome
Define the major components of language (syntax, semantic, phonology, morphology, & pragmatics).
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Cultural Factors of Language Development
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of how cultural factors influence first and second language development.
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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.
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Theories of Language Development
Learning Outcome
Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of language development (social interactionist, linguistic, emergentism).
