【重点大学语言Chapter 9 Psycholinguistics Teaching Plan.doc

Chapter 9 Psycholinguistics Objectives The students will learn how the human mind/brain supports the learning, comprehension, and production of language. The students will understand the relation of language to thought. Students will be able to 1) develop general knowledge of basic issues in psycholinguistics, including: language acquisition, language production, language comprehension, and the relation of language to thought; 2) identify the basic areas of the brain involved in language and describe the functions carried out by these areas; 3) list the major issues in the areas of speech perception, word recognition, sentence processing, text processing, reading and language acquisition; 4) explore the major theories in the area of psycholinguistics. Key Points 1) The biological foundation of language 2) Language acquisition: overgeneralization and undergeneralization 3) Language production: conceptualization, formulation, etc. 4) Language comprehension: the comprehension of sound, word, sentence, and text Procedure This chapter will be organized into two lectures. During the first lecture, what is supposed to be dealt with is an introduction to psycholinguistics and topics about language production and language acquisition. During the second, efforts will be made to discuss upon the topics of language comprehension and the relation between language and thought. Lecture One This lecture includes the following steps: Step 1: Attention-getting Two video clips (3’) Two interesting questions (Get the students involved in the lecture) Step 2: Task-performing Tasks: 1. What is psycholinguistics? 2. What are the central issues in psycholinguistics? (Part One) 2.1 The biological foundation of language 2.2 Language production 2.3 Language acquisition 3. Questions to think about Step 3: Content-reviewing Main points at a glance Step 4: Works-assigning LECTURE NOTES Step 1 Attention-getting Question1: You know birds and beasts, both of them can produce sound. T