Course Catalog - 2003-2004

     

SPAN 442 - COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION

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Department: Spanish
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: COGNITION AND L2 ACQUISITION ***** 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. ***** Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish or permission of the instructor.