Study Programme
Course
Status of the Course
Year
ECTS Credits
Teacher
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consultation hours
Associate / Assistant
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Consultation hours
Place of Teaching
Mode of Teaching
Teaching Workload
Lectures + Seminars +
Exercises
Assessment Criteria &
Mode of Examination
Start date
Mid-Term, End-ofTerm Examinations
Final Examinations
Learning Outcomes
Enrolment
Requirements
Course Contents
Required Reading
English Department - Graduate Study (Teacher education)
Second Language Acquisition
Compulsory
I
autumn-winter
Semester
3
doc.dr.sc. Nadja Mifka Profozić
[email protected]
Maja Balić Motušić
[email protected]
Thursday: 13-14 Friday: 13-14
Obala Kralja Petra Krešimira IV br. 2
Lectures and seminars
15 L + 15S
Preparation and presentation of seminar papers, active participation in
classes, two term-exams and a final written exam. Those students who
pass both the mid-term and the end-of-term exam, will be exempt from
the final exam. However, those students who do not pass one of the
term-exams must sit the final exam at the end of semester.
End date
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Term 1
Term 2
Term 3
Term 4
Having completed the course, the students will have gained the basic
knowledge of second language acquisition and will be able to:
-understand core content and objectives of the research process in
second language acquisition,
-get an insight into the development of second language acquisition
theories and understand their impacts,
-understand the relationship between learner-internal and learnerexternal factors that affect second language acquisition,
-explain characteristics of cognitive and affective factors in the process
of second language acquisition,
-recognise the characteristics of learner language,
-develop and carry out a small-scale research in the field of second
language acquisition.
Enrolment in the first semester of Graduate study in the English
Department (Teacher Education)
The basic goal of the course is to familiarise students with the content
and the foci of second language acquisition research processes,
including second language acquisition theories, and the influence of
other disciplines on theories of second language acquisition. To that
end, students will be familiarise themselves with the basic factors that
influence the process of second language acquisition (learner-internal
and learner-external), including individual differences in the process of
second language acquisition, and the characteristics of learner
language. Furthermore, the students will get acquainted with current
approaches to second language acquisition research, and the
relationship between acquisition, learning and language teaching.
1. Doughty, C. J. & Long, M. H. (ur.) (2012). The Handbook of
Second Language Acquisition. Malden, MA, Oxford, Melbourne,
Additional Reading
Internet Sources
Course Evaluation
Procedures
Conditions for
Obtaining Signatures
Mark Grading Scale
Final Grade
Calculation
Comments
Berlin: Blackwell Publishing (selected chapters)
2. Garcia Mayo, M., Gutierrez Mangalo, M. and Martinez Adrian, M.
(ur.). (2013). Contemporary Approaches to Second Language
Acquisition, Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing
3. Gass, S. and Selinker, L. (2008). Second Language Acquisition: An
Introductory Course (Topics in Applied Psycholinguistics) Routledge.
3rd ed. (selected chapters)
4. Saville-Troike, M. (2005). Introducing Second Language Acquisition
(Cambridge Introduction to Language and Linguistics). Cambridge.
CUP.
1. Ellis, R. (2008). The study of second language acquisition.
Oxford:Oxford University Press. (selected chapters)
2. Lightbown, P. M., Spada, N. (2006). How Languages are Learned.
Revised ed. Oxford: OUP.
3.Mackey, A. and Gass, S.M. (2005). Second Language Research.
Methodology and Design. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. (selected chapters)
4. Medved Krajnović, M. (2010). Od jednojezičnosti do višejezičnosti:
Uvod u istraživanja procesa ovladavanja inim jezikom. Zagreb:
Leykam international.
Self-evaluation, internal and external evaluation
Class attendance 80%, accepted seminar paper and its presentation.
>60
F (1)
>=60 D (2)
>70 C (3)
>80 B (4)
>90 A (5)
20% - seminar paper
35% - each of the two term-exams
70% - final exam
10% - participation in class
Lectures are delivered in English language. The course involves a high
degree of student activity with continuous participation during classes
in the following ways: a) by reading previously assigned articles and
participation in discussions, b) preparation of seminar papers and
presentations based on the required and additional readings, c)
interaction during lectures and seminars, and d) group work at
seminars.
Classes include regular consultations and consultations as needed.
Topics - Lectures
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Date
Title
Introduction to the course. Development of second
language acquisition theory as an independent
discipline. Basic research questions.
Second language acquisition theories (first part).
Second language theories (second part).
Learner-internal and learner-external factors that
influence second language acquisition
Characteristics of learner language
Literature
COMBINATION
OF TITLES FROM
REQUIRED AND
ADDITIONAL READING
Synthesis and revision
Mid-term Exam
Individual differences in the process of second
language acquisition (affective factors).
Individual differences in the process of second
language acquisition (cognitive factors).
Interaction and second language acquisition
The question of bilingualism and multilingualism
The relationship between acquisition, learning and
language teaching.
Recent trends in research and theoretical approaches to
second language acquisition.
Synthesis and revision.
End-of-Term Exam
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Seminars
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Date
Title
Literature
Introduction to the course. Development of second
language acquisition theories as an independent
scientific discipline. Basic research questions.
Second language acquisition theories (first part).
Second language theories (second part).
Learner-internal and learner-external factors that
influence second language acquisition
Characteristics of learner language
Synthesis and revision
Mid-term Exam
Individual differences in the process of second
language acquisition (affective factors).
Individual differences in the process of second
language acquisition (cognitive factors).
Interaction and second language acquisition
The question of bilingualism and multilingualism
The relationship between acquisition, learning and
language teaching.
Recent trends in research and theoretical approaches to
second language acquisition.
Synthesis and revision.
End-of-Term Exam
COMBINATION
OF TITLES FROM
REQUIRED AND
ADDITIONAL READING
Teacher: doc.dr.sc. Nadja Mifka Profozić