Topics in Applied Linguistics I

Students are assessed through the following components: (a) an oral presentation in which they present an empirical study from a scientific article; (b) a poster in which they describe the results of a small-scale research project they have conducted themselves; (c) a final written assignment in which they outline a research area they would explore within the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). This presentation follows strictly the structure of a scientific article, with the only exception being the absence of results and conclusions; and (d) a final exam.

Ενδεικτική Βιβλιογραφία Γενετική παράδοση Danavassi, T., & Agathopoulou, E. (2021). The learnability of uninterpretable features in adult L2 Greek: Developmental and L1 effects. 14ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ελληνικής Γλωσσολογίας, 1(1), 317–329.Hopp, H., & Lemmerth, N. (2018). Lexical and syntactic congruency in L2 predictive gender processing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40(1), 171–199. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263116000345Keating, G. D. (2009). Sensitivity to violations of gender agreement in native and nonnative Spanish: An eye‐movement investigation. Language Learning, 59(3), 503–535. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00514.xLong, M. (2014). Second language acquisition and task-based language teaching. John Wiley & Sons.Sorace, A., & Filiaci, F. (2006). Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian. Second Language Research, 22(3), 339–368. https://doi.org/10.1191/0267658306sr271oaTsimpli, I. M., & Dimitrakopoulou, M. (2007). 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