Bridging adult and child language acquisition - ABO700673

• Title: Bridging adult and child language acquisition
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication (21-UCJTK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025 to 2026
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 12 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Kateřina Chládková, M.A., Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Kateřina Chládková, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

The course will focus on seminal as well as recent studies in first-, second-, and foreign-language acquisition by children and adults. We will discuss the main characteristics of, differences and similarities between language learning in childhood and adulthood.
Methods: interactive lecture, discussion.

Last update: Šormová Kateřina, Mgr., Ph.D. (17.02.2026)

Aim of the course

Students will become familiar with main theories and approchaes in first and second language acquisition. They will come to understand the methods used in L1 and L2 research. Students will be able to evaluate critically the literature in the field.

Last update: Chládková Kateřina, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)

Course completion requirements

• účast a aktivní zapojení do diskuzí ve třídě,
• 5 písemných úkolů během semestru,
• jedna ústní prezentace vybrané studie,
• domácí zkouška

Last update: Šormová Kateřina, Mgr., Ph.D. (19.02.2026)

Literature

Flege, J. E., & Bohn, O. S. (2021). The revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r). In Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress, ed. R Wayland, pp. 3–83. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press

Lichtman, K., & VanPatten, B. (2021). Was Krashen right? Forty years later. Foreign Language Annals, 54(2), 283-305.

Singleton, D., & Leśniewska, J. (2021). The critical period hypothesis for L2 acquisition: An unfalsifiable embarrassment? Languages, 6(3), 149.

Chládková, K., Podlipský, V. J., Jarůšková, L., & Šimáčková, Š. (2025). Tuning in to the prosody of a novel language is easier without orthography. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–10. doi:10.1017/S1366728925000082

Approximately 1 or 2 research papers per week. Exact titles will be provided at the start of the term.

Last update: Chládková Kateřina, M.A., Ph.D. (06.02.2025)