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SPA 340

Speech and Language Development

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeB+
Standard

Overview

Description

Traditional and psycholinguistic approaches to language and speech development in children.

Requirements

Prerequisites

HDFS 201EDU 203PBH 101ENG 281

Corequisites

SPA 201
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

HDFS 201 or EDU 203 or PBH 101 or ENG 281

Corequisites

SPA 201

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Terms

fall, spring

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • provide a definition of language and in each of the five areas of language.
  • summarize the stages of development in each of the five areas of language.
  • understand the grammatical aspect of language and analyze the basic syntactic structure of a sentence.
  • identify the relationship between cognition and language and discuss four basic theories underlying this relationship.