JAL4710 - Acquisition of Japanese Language
12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Arts
Leader(s): Dr Robyn Spence-Brown
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
How Japanese is acquired as a second or foreign language and the factors affecting acquisition. Issues including reading development, language distance, and developmental processes, transfer, pragmatics, and input and interaction. First language acquisition of Japanese and methodology employed in studying Japanese language acquisition.
Assessment
Written: 80% (3500 words)
2 hours Test: 20%
Contact hours
2 hours (2 seminars) per week
06 July 2009
06 July 2009