Upon the completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1) Be familiar with the relevant psychology literature and feel competent in issues pertaining language acquisition and development at undergraduate level.

2) Have a solid awareness of how research in speech perception can profitably be used in applied contexts such as speech pathology, psychopathology and language instruction.

3) Develop ideas of research related to speech perception on theoretical and applied levels in their respective areas – psychology and foreign language instruction.