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CLASS REQUIREMENT # 2--A 1500 WORD MINIMUM TERM PAPER:

-THE CLASS TEXT: The text for the course is "Born to Talk" by Hulit and Howard. There are five editions out there now. Any one of them will work with some minor adjustments, but the 5th Edition s highly recommended.

- A term paper of no less than 1500 words will be written on a Topic, which you should select from a list of Language Development Hypotheses. This list is provided at the very end of this survival message. The Term Paper is to present a discussion based on a minimum of three articles, books or chapters in a book (excluding the class Text, of course), that describe, or support or refute the hypothesis you have selected from the

list. A minimum of three citations with references in APA format will be included at the end of the paper. An example of APA format is also provided in the Class Requirements Section of the online Class.

Also, at the end of the paper you should include a short Appendix, which will answer three questions:

1. What were the databases used to find each article. (For example in the Communicative Disorders Multisearch example shown below we searched ten Data Bases but found most of our articles in PubMed.)

2. What was the search strategy which was used, i.e., the search words used in each database to find the articles. (In the example below, we used the terms “Television and (Language Development). We put the last two terms in brackets so that the computer would link Television to both terms and not just “Language.”)

3. Was each article cited an example of Primary or Secondary research? As defined by the Library at UC Berkley, “Primary sources were either created during the time period being studied, or were created at a later date by a participant in the events being studied (as in the case of memoirs) and they reflect the individual viewpoint of a participant or observer. Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period.”

“ A secondary source is a work that interprets or analyzes an historical event or phenomenon. It is generally at least one step removed from the

event. Examples include scholarly or popular books and articles, reference books, and textbooks.”

Topic 1: What Language isn't...(Communication modes that are not language) Topic 2: What Language is...(How Language differs from other forms of communication. Topic 3: The "Guts" of Language...(What the Language Processes are) Topic 4: Oral Language is a Bag of Air...(How the Environment is responsible for Speech and Oral Language.) Topic 5: Hearing to Speak of...(The role of Hearing in language development) Topic 6: Perception and Language...(The role of Perception in language development) Topic 7: Concepts and Language...(The role of Concepts in language development) Topic 8: Thought & Language...(How Language and the Thought processes interact...Language and Culture, Dialects & Accents and the Educational Implications) Topic 9: Memories are made of these...(The role of Memory in language development) Topic10: Milestones of Speech Development...Windows of Opportunity to facilitate Speech and Language Development.