EDU 54 — Language Acquisition & Literac
The course examines theories of cognitive and language developments as a framework for conceptualizing the way infants/toddlers acquire receptive and expressive language. The course includes: observing the young child, assessing the social, cognitive, adaptive, and physical developmental milestones, and creating a learning plan for each child through the context of play. Students will develop pedagogical practices that enhance children's language development as well as provide students with the opportunities to observe, assess, and create a plan of action that will improve the infant/toddler's language abilities. Students will reflect upon how infants and toddlers acquire receptive and expressive language during the ten hours of field work observations, in an approved age-appropriate educational setting, that they are assigned.