LD 4505 Second Language & Culture Acquisition

(5 semester hours)
Students will learn to identify and apply their own language and culture learning styles, manage language learning, use appropriate techniques and activities to develop second language competence at the novice level while working with a native speaker in language learning sessions. They will be able to describe techniques and activities suitable for language learning at more advanced levels. Building on awareness of their own cultural values, they will be able to describe and will begin to implement strategies for dealing appropriately with differences in cultural values.

Prerequisite:

• AL 4302 Principles of Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics (may be taken concurrently)
• AL 4410a Principles of Grammatical Analysis (a)
• Note: Students may take AL4304 as a prerequisite for LD4505 in lieu of AL4302 and AL4410a, but not as a prerequisite for any AL course.