BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(Part II)
Chapter 11
Class Meeting #

Dr. Olson
BSL 565 - Applied Linguistics

INTRODUCTION

Tonight's subject continues with the discussion of brain and language.  You will need to have read Chapter 11 in order to complete the following activities.

Terms you should be familiar with:
 
acquired dyslexia paragraphia surface dyslexia deep dyslexia
acquired dysgraphia phonological dyslexia agrammatism

Section IV.  Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia

I.  Review pages 428-430, and answer the following questions.  Post your answers to the forum.

1.  What is: acquired dyslexia and acquired dysgraphia?  What does the term acquired mean?
2.  What conclusion can be drawn about reading and writing disturbances in aphasia?
2.  Describe the differences between phonological and surface dyslexia.

II.  Review these sites and post a summary to the forum.
 

Dyslexia, LD, and Literary Resources
Educational News
Dyslexia
Dysgraphia


Section V.  Linguistic Theory and Aphasia

I.  Review pages 430-433, and answer the following questions.  Post your answers to the forum.

1.  Summarize "Features, Rules, and Underlying Forms."
2.  What is agrammatism, what has resulted in its studies, and what about agrammatism in other languages?
3.  Summarize "The Loss of Syntactic Competence."

II.  Review these sites and post a summary to the forum.

Resources
Healthtouch
Language Acquisition


Section VI.  Where is Language?

I.  Review page 433, and answer the following.  Post to the forum.

1.  What are the crucial roles played by Broca's area and Wernicke's area?
2.  Use this section to tell the reader where language is found.

II.  Review these sites and post a summary to the forum.

Language Locations in the Brain
Art of Language
Where is Language?

CONCLUSION

I.  Finish tonight's work by writing a conclusion.  How will you be able to apply the information from this chapter and the site research as a teacher?  Post your conclusion to the forum, then read and react to your colleagues' responses and conclusions.

II.  Connect with an expert:  Make a comment, request information, ask a question of, or otherwise connect to an expert on this subject through e-mail.  Post a copy of your e-mail to this forum (copy/paste).  A general expert site has been provided for your use, but you are not limited to this site.

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Textbook:  Contemporary Linguistics-Third Edition
Authors: O'Grady, William
          Dobrovolsky, Michael
          Aronoff, Mark
 
 
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