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The course provides an introduction to basic research methods in first and second language acquisition. Students will have the opportunity to work with transcripts of computerized child language data from the CHILDES database (http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/) and will learn how to design a questionnaire for studying L2 acquisition. The focus of the course is on methodological issues, i.e. data collection and data analysis; theoretical issues of L1 and L2 acquisition will be addressed in the complementary class Language Development: Theory. MA students are expected to attend both parts of the module (i.e. Language Development: Methods and Language Development: Theory). Students of the teacher training program do not have to attend the theory part of the module; but if they attend the current class without any prior knowledge of L1 and/or L2 acquisition, they should be prepared to do some additional reading. |
