LING 478.01: Learner Language
Leora Bar‐el · The Mathematics Enthusiast · 2017
Course Goals: or instructor's objectives Some instructor's objectives are suggested in the following sections titled COURSE PREVIEW & COURSE DESCRIPTION, for example, being able to define a minimalist position and illustrate how such accounts of language development must make reference to a mental grammar in support of its explanations, or, for example, being able to demarcate some critical period(s) intervening at developmental stages of older language learners (e.g., beyond pre-school ages) and provide evidence exemplifying interruptions in proficiency as well as identify conceivable sources for obstacles.Other examples include understanding and explaining the role of scientific theory and scientific thinking in studies of language development, how definitions of theoretical constructs lend themselves to formulation of hypotheses, and why the methodology used in collecting data functions decisively in ascertaining any hypothesis falsifications. Course Outcomes: or students' performanceAmong the variety of students' performance (cited in the section titled COURSE ASSIGNMENTS), please keep in mind the major difference between these activities and the instructor's objectives: The course goals are intended to instill a habit of mind that is applicable to most systematic and methodical scholarship (i.e., reasoning abilities transferable outside of this course; the course outcomes, however, concern the type of work involved in observing some behavior of a language learner in terms of linguistic properties judged to speculatively constitute a grammar of the individual.