Psychology of language learning

The course aims at familiarizing the students with the research results and theories on the processes of language acquisition, reception and production of language, both oral and written.

Course contents:

1.     First and second language acquisition in the natural environment.

2.     Language and the brain:Introduction to neurolinguistics.

3.     Speech comprehension: sounds, words and sentences.

4.     Understanding written texts: from sentence to discourse; writing systems.

5.     Understanding texts in a foreign language; language processing disorders (dyslexia)

6.    Mental lexicon; words vs meanings; lexical access.

7.     Planning and production of speech;