Holiday

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Explain core concepts and theories in psycholinguistics related to language comprehension, production, and acquisition.

• Describe the cognitive and neurological processes involved in understanding and producing spoken and written language.

• Analyze language phenomena such as slips of the tongue, speech errors, and sentence processing using psycholinguistic principles.

• Identify major brain structures associated with language and explain their roles in linguistic functioning.

• Discuss language disorders (e.g., aphasia, dyslexia) and relate them to underlying cognitive and neurological mechanisms.

• Apply psycholinguistic knowledge to real-world contexts such as education, communication, and language learning.

• Evaluate basic research methods used in psycholinguistics and interpret findings from experimental studies.

These outcomes equip students with both theoretical understanding and practical insight into how language operates in the human mind and brain.