Module QXL-3316:
Language Disorders &Bilinguals
Language Disorders and Bilingualism 2024-25
QXL-3316
2024-25
School Of Arts, Culture And Language
Module - Semester 1
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Eirini Sanoudaki
Overview
Topics may vary from year to year, but will be drawn from:
1. Introduction to language impairment and bilingualism
2. Investigating language development and impairment in bilingual populations
3. Language in bilingual individuals with Down syndrome/other genetic conditions
4. Language and autism
5. Acquired language disorders – Neurolinguistics
Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to critically evaluate relevant empirical studies.
- Students will be able to describe, analyse and critically compare competing accounts and theories concerning atypical language acquisition and acquired language disorders in monolinguals and bilinguals.
- Students will be able to identify and evaluate the linguistic characteristics of each type of speech and language impairments, and explain how these findings relate to linguistic theory .
- Students will be able to present and discuss key facts, concepts, ideas and approaches relating to the study of language disorders.
- Students will understand the major types of speech and language impairments in monolinguals and bilinguals, and be able to identify them.