EDUC 210 Language Development This course focuses on the process of acquiring language(s) from birth through adulthood. Various theoretical perspectives on language acquisition will be presented and current information regarding the biological, social, and cognitive bases for language will be reviewed. Major communicative achievements that characterize the various stages of language development will be discussed while examining stories of children who are developing language in a typical and atypical manners, and as people in multicultural and linguistically diverse or bilingual contexts. Methods for describing language performance and documenting language growth will be reviewed and students will examine the ways the arts facilitate language development.