Term Paper--The second of three course requirements (the ten Tests were the first):

The term paper is to be approximately 10 pages long, double spaced. More is acceptable but not expected or necessary.

It can be submitted as an attachment to an email message or it can be simply cut and pasted into an email message. The email address is: (ehall@csun.edu).

There are five choices for the term paper (each equivalent in weight). Choose just one of the following:

1. A report on the theories or perspectives of an authority in the profession (e.g., Chomsky or Vygotsky etc.), or...



2. A report on another text in language development (e.g., what were the most important things you learned from it?), or...



3. A report on a topic related to language. (e.g., family structure and language development; or differences in 2nd versus 1st language acquisition...or...

4. Five Mini Reports: each approximately two pages obtained from any professional journal articles. (see, for example, psychological abstracts for a list of possible journals); One report will be from each of the following 5 topic headings:

• Transduction and/or perception
• Symbolism and/or Cognition
• Memory
• Imagery
• Environmental factors

or...

• 5. Thirty multiple choice questions: Three multiple choice questions from each chapter of the text plus the appendix (for a total of 30 questions) are to be generated by you, the student, in the same format as those questions used in the exams of this course. To be included also are the answers to each question and the page in the text from which the material was obtained.

Term Paper--all of the five options will be evaluated equally.

• The Term Papers will be graded on the following bases:

  • Relevance of the topic selected (20%)
  • Complexity of the topic selected (10%)
  • Thoroughness of the discussion (60%)
  • Writing skills speling, {just kidding}--spelling, grammar, transition & organization) (10%).

• The Multiple Choice Questions will be graded on the following bases:

  • The relevance of the questions (20%)
  • The complexity of the questions (not too simple, and yet not too difficult (10%)
  • The thoroughness of the questions (60%)
  • Writing skills (e.g., spelling, grammar, organization and clarity) (10%)