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This course will look into how children acquire their mother tongue (or tongues), as a means of understanding more about human development, psychology, and language. We will examine how children acquire language sounds, word knowledge and use, word forms, sentence structure, semantics, and the communicative use of language, and then consider theories for explaining this acquisition.

課程內容方針

目的（除課程本身的目的和重要性外，更可說明與其他課程之配合以至對整個人文社會科學的功用 ) :

這門課程是探討兒童如何學習他們母語，藉以了解人類的發展，心理學以及語言。我們將檢視兒童如何辨認語言聲音，學習字辭的意義和用法，了解字形、句構和語意，以及使用語言溝通。同時，我們也會藉著不同的理論來解釋這些現象。

Course Introduction                                 Back

課程簡介

1. 重要觀念；兒童語言研究 (課本 chaps 1 & 6 : Background Concept; Studying Child Language)
2. 早期溝通的基礎 (課本 chap 2: Foundations of Early Communication)
3. 文字語言前的溝通能力和早期字彙 (課本 chap 3 : Prelinguistic Communicative Competence and the Early Lexicon)
4. 以語言溝通 (課本 chap 4 : Communicating with Language)

A. Part 1. Early Syntax and Semantics: The Two-Word Stage

B. Part 2. Advances in Lexical Development

C. Part 3 Syntactic Development

D. Part 4 Pragmatic Development in the Linguistic Stage

5. 溝通能力的發展分析 (課本 chap 5 : Explaining the Development of Communicative Competence)
6. 小組報告

課程活動

本課學習活動包括︰１）閱讀聽講，２）上課討論，３）觀察兒童語言，４）觀察報告，５）期中、期末考試及報告

Grading Policy                                          Back

Participation 15%

In-class exam (midterm exam) 25%

Take-home exam (final exam) 25%

Observation report (group, with evidence of each member's contribution) 35%

LOOK HERE!!! -the requirement of observation report

Texts                                                        Back

TEXTBOOK:

Foster, Susan H. The Communicative Competence of Young Children: A Modular Approach. London: Longman, 1990.

RECOMMENDED:

De Villiers, Peter A., and Jill G. de Villiers. Early Language. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. (Caves.)

OTHER BOOKS:

Hsu, Joseph H. A Study of the Stages of Development and Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese by Children in Taiwan. Taipei: The Crane, 1996.

Clark, H.H. and E.V. Clark. Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. (Chapters 8, 9, 10, & 13.)

Atkinson,-Martin; Foster,-Susan-H., reviewer. "Explanations in the study of child language development"(book review) Language.v. 61 Mar. '85 p. 206-11.

Deuchar,-Margaret, reviewer. "The Handbook of child language" (book review). Journal-of-Linguistics.v. 34 no1 Mar. '98 p. 253-7. 　

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