course title
Eye movements and sentence comprehension
dates and location
Wednesdays 1100-1300,
Golm campus, Haus 24, room 0.75
what this course is about
We will begin with an introduction and review of the sentence comprehension literature, with an inevitable focus on the issues of greatest interest in my own lab. This introduction will go on for a couple of weeks, and for this segment of the course I expect active participation from all of you; passively listening to me talk is boring for all, including myself. I will assign some preparatory
readings about the eyetracking methodology; you will need all the information in these articles for the second part of the course.
After the introduction is over, we will cover the literature assigned for this course. The list is given below.
prerequisites
Not relevant, since it's a required course for EMCL students.
grading
Grading will be based on homework assignments (70%) and class participation (30%).
Homework will begin with the second part of the course, and will involve the following. For each paper assigned to the class, every student must write down at least three questions that relate to the issues discussed in the paper. These questions should be a product of your having critically thought about the paper and its claims. Questions like "I didn't understand X" don't count; such questions can be raised in class or in the moodle forum. I will grade you on the thoughtfulness of your questions. I will provide examples of good and bad questions.
One student will be assigned to lead the discussion. This involves (a) collecting together all the questions; (b) organizing them into themes, and (c) discussing these themes in class (this part will involve everyone, and will especially involve me).
A final issue: in order to allow the moderator to have enough time to prepare the summary, all submissions for a paper must be delivered on moodle \textbf{one week} in advance of discussion of the paper. So, if a paper is to be discussed next Wednesday, your submission is due on moodle Wednesday this week.
Final
scores will be based on the following mapping described in the
Studienordnung: 95-100%=1,0 (A);90-94=1,3 (A-);85-89=1,7
(B+);80-84=2,0 (B);75-79=2,3 (B-);70-74=2,7 (C+);65-69=3,0
(C);60-64=3,3 (C-);55-59=3,7 (D+);50-54=4,0 (D);45-49=5,0 (F). If a
student's score falls between the cracks, it will be treated as
falling in the higher bin. Also, if a student is in a higher semester
than the regular BA students,
Students are expected to attend class regularly. If a
class is missed, the student is responsible for finding out what the
assignment was, what readings were assigned, and what material was
covered.
Note: If more than three homework submissions are missed, the student fails the course.
conduct in the classroom
Please do not engage in private conversations during class.
All cell phones must be switched off (except by permission from me).
Please do not walk into class after it starts (11:15 is the deadline to be ready for class).
Questions to me during class are actively encouraged.
evaluation of the instructor
Anonymous feedback (especially complaints about the course) is welcome:
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schedule
Log into the moodle website to find out where to get the articles from.
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downloads |
references |
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| Apr 22 |
Introduction 1
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check moodle
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| Apr 29 |
Introduction 2
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| May 6 |
NO CLASS |
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| May 13 |
Introduction 3
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| May 20 |
Introduction 4
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| May 27 |
Introduction 5
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| June 3 |
Reading 1: Frazier and Rayner 1982 |
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| June 10 |
Reading 2: Meseguer et al 2002 |
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| June 17 |
Reading 3: Mitchell et al 2008 |
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| June 24 |
Reading 4: Boston et al 2008 |
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| July 1 |
Reading 5: Reichle et al 2009
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| July 8 |
Reading 6: Malsburg and Vasishth (in prep.)
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| July 15 |
Wrap-up
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