SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LECTURES

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Semester 2009--2010

wassim ben ammar

Syllabus

Week	Date	Lecture topic / lecturer	Reading for the week
1	3 March	Introduction and early SLA research lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 1. The study of second language acquisition. Chapter 2. Looking at interlanguage data.
2	10 March	The role of the first language lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 3. The role of the native language: an historical overview.
3	17 March	First and child second language acquisition lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 4. Child language acquistion: First and second
4	24 March	The effect of previously known languages lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 5. Recent perspectives on the role of previously known languages.
No class	31 March	Semester Break	*******
5	7 April	Functional approaches to SLA lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 6. SLA and Linguistics.
6	14 April	Universal grammar in SLA lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 7. Universal grammar Professor Ellis lecture, 5-6pm Parnell 7 - 222
7	21 April	Cognitive models of SLA lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 8. Looking at interlanguage processes
8	28 April	Sociolinguistic approaches to SLA lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 9. Interlanguage in context.
9	5 May	Input & output lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 10. Input, interaction, and output.
10	12 May	Instructed second language learning lecture slides & notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 11. Instructed second language learning.
11	19 May	Personality and emotional factors in SLA lecture slides& notes tutorial discussion questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001)., Chapter 12. Nonlanguage influences
12	26 May	The lexicon lecture slides& notes tutorial discussion questions topic review questions	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 12. The lexicon
13	2 June	SLA as a many-headed beast lecture slides & notes	Gass, S. & Selinker, L. (2001). Chapter 14. An integrated view of SLA