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DCJDR_ATO2 Foreign Language Acquisition II

Faculty of Education
autumn 2012

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Světlana Hanušová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. Věra Janíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

Mgr. Renata Jančaříková, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature - Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of English Language and Literature - Faculty of Education

Prerequisites (in Czech)

DCJDR_ATO1 Language Acquisition I

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Didactics of Foreign Language (programme PdF, D-SPE4)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to overview the current knowledge in the field of theory of the first and second language acquisition in a natural environment and in class.

Syllabus

• Theory of foreign language acquisition is a core subject of the didactic section and is the basis for a further choice of optional courses in this section. The aim of the course is to overview the current knowledge in the field of theory of the first and second language acquisition in a natural environment and in a school class. Students will learn about individual hypotheses and theories of foreign language acquisition and about the role of important factors which influence these processes. They will discuss implications of the theories of foreign language acquisition for educational practice and possibilities of research in the given field from a linguo-didactic point of view. Topics to cover: • Behaviorism, nativism, constructivism, social interactionism, connectionism, theory of information processing. • Billingual language acquisition. • Critical period. • Factors which influence foreign language acquisition.

Literature

• The handbook of second language acquisition. Edited by Catherine J. Doughty - Michael H. Long. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. ix, 888 s. ISBN 1-4051-3281-7. info
• COOK, Vivian. Second language learning and language teaching. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. vii, 262 s. ISBN 0-340-76192-X. info
• ELLIS, Rod. Second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. x, 147 s. ISBN 0-19-437212-X. info
• RYAN, Lisa. Language acquisition :the age factor. Edited by D. M. Singleton. 2nd ed. Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, 2004. viii, 289. ISBN 1-85359-757-0. info
• ELLIS, Rod. Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. 230 s. ISBN 0-631-16202-X. info
• BUTZKAMM, Wolfgang. Psycholinguistik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts : natürliche Künstlichkeit : von der Muttersprache zur Fremdsprache [Butzkamm, 1993]. 2. verbesserte und erweitert. Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 1993. xvi, 334 s. ISBN 3-85215-059-0. info
• LIGHTBOWN, Patsy M. and Nina SPADA. How languages are learned. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. xv, 135 s. ISBN 0-19-437169-7. info
• SORGER, Brigitte. Der Internationale Deutschlehrerverband - Ein Beitrag zur Fachgeschichte von Deutsch als Fremdsprache und Zweitsprache (The International Association of Teachers of German - Featuring the history of German as a foreign language). In JANÍKOVÁ, Věra. Forschung im Doktorstudium am Lehrstuhl für deutsche Sprache und Literatur der Pädagogischen Fakultät der Masaryk-Universität. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007. p. 49-57, 8 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-4469-2. info
• LEAVER, Betty Lou, Madeline EHRMAN and Boris SHEKHTMAN. Achieving success in second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 265 s. ISBN 0-521-54663-X. info

Teaching methods

lecture, class discussion

Assessment methods

Examination - students critically evaluate at least two foreign studies related in their theme to the field of theory or research of second language acquisition. Debate.

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.

The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2011, autumn 2011, autumn 2013.

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