Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Valérie Ancion, Elise Brassart, Christelle Maillart
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course is an introduction to developmental psycholinguistics, i.e. the field which deals with the way children learn the language. It is built around the following sections :
- Introduction
- Language prerequis
- Phonological development
- Lexical development.
- Morphosyntactic development.
- discursive development.
- Pragmatic development.
- Theoretical approaches regarding language acquisition
- Individual differences
- Support to language development
Education in Speech and Language Therapy is based on a repertoire of individual skills. This course supports SLT education.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the session, students will be able
- to describe the developmental trajectory of language;
- to determine the language abilities of a child at a specific age ;
- to identify the verbal or non verbal communication means used by a child ;
- to recognize different experimental methods used in developmental psycholinguistics ;
- to compare different theoretical frameworks used in language acquisition ;
- to analyze research about child language acquisition;
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
1er semester : 1H50 each monday 8h-9h50 (B31 de Mean) + 30 min online exercices on e-campus. A podcast will be available.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
In-person instruction + on line course
Recommended or required readings
Daviault, D. (2011). L'émergence et le développement du langage chez l'enfant. Chenelière Education.
Kern, S. (2019). Le developpement du langage chez le jeune enfant. Editions De Boeck.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
A written examination will take place in January. The grade will include the following components:
50% - open questions (incuded a timeline) and 50% true or false questions (correct response: +1, false response: -1 , no response: 0)
An optional assessment with an additional bonus point (added to the open questions part) is organised during the year.
The final grade is based on an assessment by open questions and true or false questions. The student must obtain a minimum mark of 10/20 in each part. In case of failure in one of the parts, the final mark will be the failing mark. If the student fails both parts, the final mark will be the average of the failing marks. If you pass both parts, the final mark will be the average of the two marks.
For the second session, the student will have to repeat both parts of the exam.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course and podcasts are available on e-campus.
Contacts
Pr. Christelle Maillart
Department of Speech and Language Therapy - RUCHE
B38 Clinical Speech Therapy Unit
Quartier Village 2
30, rue de l'aunaie
B-4000 Liège (Sart Tilman)
christelle.maillart@uliege.be
Other teachers : Valérie Ancion (HEL) & Elise Brassart (HERS)