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The Royal Commission at Yanbu

Sector of Colleges and Institutes


Yanbu University College - Male Campus
Applied Linguistics Department

LING 302 (Psycholinguistics): semester 151


Instructor: Mohammed A. Aljohani ( aljohanim@rcyci.edu.sa )
A three-credit hour course
1. Course description:
This course is an introduction to psycholinguistics. In this course, students will investigate the
relation between language and the brain. They will understand how language is produced,
perceived, and comprehended. Further, they will explore how language is repossessed and
processed in the brain. Moreover, they will understand the function of parsing and how it effects
language processing. Further, students will investigate how conversations happen. Also, students
will discuss language acquisition, and bilingual language processing. Finally, the course ends with a
discussion on aphasia.
2. Intended Learning Outcomes:
The learners will be able to:

Understand what is psycholinguistics and its interdisciplinary nature


Understand how language is produced, perceived and comprehended by interlocutors
Understand how language is language is acquired, represented and processed in the brain
Understand how a dialogue and how figurative language is processed
Investigate the nature of the linguistic competence and how it is realized into performance
Remember models of speech production and comprehension
Investigate aphasia and language impairments and the genetic bases of language

3. Required Textbooks:
1. Fernndez, Eva M., and Helen Smith. Cairns. Fundamentals of Psycholinguistics. Chichester,
West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
2. Traxler, Matthew. Introduction to Psycholinguistics. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.
3. Schunk, Dale H. Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective. Boston: Pearson, 2012. Print.

4. Assessment:
Final Exam: 45%
Midterm Exam: 25%
Quizzes: 15%
Assignments: 15%
5. Syllabus:
Week #

Topics

Readings

1&2

- What is language?
Ch1 & 2 (Fernandezs
- The speech signal
Fundamentals of
- The nature of linguistic psycholinguistics)

Comments

competnece
3&4

- Biological origins of
language

Ch3 (Fernandezs
Fundamentals of
psycholinguistics)

Assignment 1 (4)

Ch2 (neuroscience for learning :


Learning theories an education
perspective)
5&6

- Speech production

ch5 (Fernandezs Fundamentals Quiz 1 (week 6)


of psycholinguistics)

7&8

- Speech perception and


lexical access

ch6 (Fernandezs Fundamentals submission of assignment 1


of psycholinguistics)
(week 8)

9 &10

- Structural processing
(Parsing)

ch7 (Fernandezs Fundamentals Midterm exam (TBA)


of psycholinguistics)
Assignment 2 (week 10)

11 & 12

- Remembering
sentences, processing
discourse, and having
conversations

ch8 (Fernandezs Fundamentals Quiz 2 (week 12)


of psycholinguistics)

13 - Language acquisition

ch4 (Fernandezs Fundamentals


of psycholinguistics)

14 - Bilingual language
processing

ch11 (Traxlers introduction to


psycholinguistics)

15 - Aphasia

ch13 (Traxlers introduction to


psycholinguistics)

Assignment 3 & Quiz 3

16 Concluding the course


17 Final Exams

* I reserve my right to modify the syllabus for pedagogical purposes

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