Course title

Psycholinguistics

Instructor

Xiao Hui

Instructor’s profile

Xiao Hui obtained his master degree from Foreign Language Department Jilin University of Technology. His research interests are the mental processes of the first and second language use.

Course goals

This course aims

(i) to provide an overview of the issues in the area of psycholinguistics and applied psycholinguistics
(ii) to enable students to understand and assess current scientific debates in this research area, and
(iii) to prepare students for doing their own empirical research on psycholinguistics and apply the methodology and techniques in psycholinguistic to their sections.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include General Themes and Historical Perspectives, Psychological and Biological Foundations, Language Comprehension and Memory, Language Production, Language and Thought.

Assessment

Paper writing

Reference books

Psychology of Language Third edition　

David W. Carroll Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press 2000

Psycholinguistics Second edition

Slobin, D. I. Scott, Forsesman and Company 1979

Working language

English

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