Language and Literacy Development Series: From Language to Literacy

Harvard HGSE

Students in this course will learn about children’s development of oral language and of early literacy skills, and about parallels and differences in the two developmental trajectories. Students will be exposed to research on the major domains of development in oral language (pragmatics, phonology, vocabulary, grammar, and extended discourse), with attention to the following questions: Is skill in this domain prerequisite to the trouble-free acquisition of literacy? Does variation in…