The Seminar in
English Studies (LING) – Words and rules. Grammar and vocabulary acquisition
in Land L2 deals with words and rules in our mental lexicon
and thus covers both grammar and vocabulary acquisition in L1 and L2. We will
look at ways lexical and grammatical knowledge is stored and retrieved from
both the L1 and L2 language faculty. We will explore current theories of
vocabulary storage and retrieval, models of the mental lexicon as well as
models of human cognition. In addition, we will look at approaches to vocabulary
testing. These psycholinguistic foundations are at the core of this seminar but
will be complemented with brief discussions of their relevance for the EFL
classroom. In the course of this seminar, you are supposed to submit either a
seminar term paper or a Bachelor thesis.