Descripción y contextualización de la asignatura

This course aims to bring students closer to the study of First, (early and late) Second and additional language acquisition through their familiarization with current research oriented to the study of early and late bilingualism.



This interdisciplinary course allows students to connect the knowledge acquired in the master’s theoretical subjects such as phonetics/phonology, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics with the practice of language acquisition and learning and provides students with insights into issues about teaching and learning a second language. It also allows students to assess different theoretical proposals and methodologies in the field

of language acquisition providing them with a wider perspective to develop their research papers within the master.

Resultados del aprendizaje de la asignatura

After successfully completing the course, students will



- Be able to compare different theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of L1 and L2 language

acquisition



- Be able to provide answers to theoretical, methodological and empirical questions concerning the acquisition of Abar

movement structures such as Wh-questions, Relative clauses as well as other kinds of embedded clauses.



- Be able to describe the variability of bi- or multilingual acquisition processes and to identify the effect of

crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of each of the languages involved.

Convocatoria ordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

In order to complete the course students will have to participate actively in class (20% of the final mark) and orally present a paper (%30 of the final mark) and hand in a written paper (12-15 pages long) (50% of the final mark).



Students must make sure that all written assignments must be written by the author. Students must identify and include all facts, ideas, opinions and points of view of others correctly through the use of in-text citations and must also be properly identified in the reference list provided at the end of the assignment. All direct quotations taken from books, journals, the internet or any other source must be adequately acknowledged and identified in the reference list.

Convocatoria extraordinaria: orientaciones y renuncia

Students will have to hand in a written paper (12-15 pages long) (50% of the final mark) which includes the discussion of some theoretical and/or methodological aspect related to the topics covered in class

Temario

1.Relative clauses in early child language research



2.Theories on the early acquisition of RCs



3.Early bilingual studies: research questions, methods and results



4.RCs in TD children and in children with DLD



5.Movement in L2/Ln language acquisition : Wh-questions, islands, Relative Clauses



6.L2/Ln acquisition: issues past and present

Bibliografía

Materiales de uso obligatorio

Bibliografía básica

Diessel, Holger & Tomasello, Michael. 2005. A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. Language 81 (4), 882-906. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2005.0169.



Friedman, Naama; Belleti, Adriana & Rizzi, Luigi. 2009. Relativized relatives: Types of intervention in the acquisition of Abar dependencies. Lingua 119 (2009) 67–88.



Ortega-Santos, I., Reglero A. & Franco, J. 2018. Wh-islands in L2 Spanish and L2 English: Between Poverty of the Stimulus and Data Assessment. Fontes Linguae Vasconun 126, 435-471.



Schwartz, B. D. & Sprouse, R. A. 2020. The Full Transfer/Full Access model and L3 cognitive states. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11(1), 1-29.

Revistas

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BIL



Child Language: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hlac20/current



First Language: http://fla.sagepub.com/



Journal of Child Language: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JCL



Language Learning: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9922



Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: https://www.benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/lab/main



Porta Linguarum: http://www.ugr.es/~portalin/



Second Language Research: http://slr.sagepub.com/



Studies in Second Language Acquisition: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=SLA