SPA 340 - Speech and Language Development

(3 units)

Traditional and psycholinguistic approaches to language and speech development in children.

Prerequisite(s): HDFS 201 or EDU 203 or PBH 101 or ENG 281; or co-requisite: SPA 201.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. provide a definition of language and in each of the five areas of language.
2. summarize the stages of development in each of the five areas of language.
3. understand the grammatical aspect of language and analyze the basic syntactic structure of a sentence.
4. identify the relationship between cognition and language and discuss four basic theories underlying this relationship.

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