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Psycholinguistics for M.A students of TEFL

Instructor: Dr. Shooshtari

Main objectives

 This course is designed to present a concise and informative introduction to  a number of major theoretical issues, Key concepts, and discoveries in the field of psycholinguistics. It is especially intended to familiarize the graduate students of TEFL  with the main  research agenda within the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics, focusing  on how language is represented in the mind of individuals and the cognitive processes involved in language acquisition, language comprehension and language production.

 

 Course contents

 The beginning concepts in psycholinguistics

 The nature of linguistic competence

 The biological basis of Language

 psychological mechanisms

 Speech perception and lexical access

 The  acquisition of language

 Structural processing in speech perception

 A survey of different psychological theories:

    Cognitive psychology, information processing and Constuctivism

     Social interactionism,

     Mediation theory

     Locus of control

      Attribution theory

Sentence and Discourse comprehension

 Speech production: models and processes

 Sentence and Discourse comprehension

 

 Course requirements

 Regular attendance

 Active participation in the class discussion

 One presentation

 Mid-term and Final exams

 References

  Williams,M. & Burden,R. (2003) Psychology for language teachers: A social constructivist approach. UK : Cambridge university press.

 Carrol,David W.(2008). Pscychology of language. Canada:  The Thomson Corporation.

 Fernandez,Eva M.,&  Smith Cairns,Helen.(2011). Fundementals of Pscycholinguistics.  UK:  Wiley-Blackwell.

 Warren, Paul. (2013). Introducing psycholinguistics.U.K.: Cambridge University Press

  Harley, Trevor A. The psychology of Language: from Data to theory. (2014)(Fourth edition). New York: Psychology Press.

 Whitaker, Harry.(ed.) (2010) Concise encyclopedia of Brain and language. Amsterdam: Elsevier Ltd.

 Arabski, Janusz,(ed.) (2010).Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistics: Perspectives on SLA. UK.Short Run Press.