Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an in-depth analysis of general cognitive processes in second language development and cognitive based theories of second language acquisition. Some of the issues to be discussed in detail are perception, attention, memory, automaticity, restructuring, sentence processing, learnability theories, language and intelligence, critical periods for language acquisition, etc. Cross-list: LING 420, SPAN 542, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: SPAN 542. Recommended prerequisite(s): Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.