Türkçe - English
ELT - 2006-2007 Academic Year Course Description
Semester 1
ELT 171 Contextual Grammar I (3-0-3)
This course aims to promote understanding the relation between language structures and lexical items as well as raising awareness about the attribution of meaning by means of these structures. Within the framework of a context, advanced language structures are analyzed so as to establish relations between form and text type. Synthesizing these structures, students produce advanced level texts employing these structures. The course also emphasizes interactive activities such as group and pair work.
ELT 173 Advanced Reading and Writing I 3-0-3)
This course presents a wide range of authentic reading materials including newspapers, journals, reviews and academic texts in order to comprehend contrasting viewpoints and to predict and identify main ideas and to decode inter-sentential clues. It also aims to equip students with intensive and extensive reading habits. Critical thinking skills such as synthesizing information or analyzing a problem as well as reacting on the basis of evaluation are fostered. Such sub-skills of reading are employed by the students in their writings. Students also analyze and produce different types of writings (e.g. expository paragraph, descriptive paragraph, narrative paragraph, etc.); build up writing skills emphasizing the organization, coherence, and cohesion and such sub-skills as summarizing, outlining, and paraphrasing at paragraph level. The use of spelling and punctuation conventions as well as non-alphabetic symbol use will be practiced as well.
ELT 175 Listening and Pronunciation I (3-0-3)
This course aims to develop students’ listening and pronunciation skills while gaining confidence in communicating in English. It employs authentic listening materials and speech samples used in different discourses in order to be analyzed as communication-oriented classroom activities. Starting from basic listening and phonetic skills such as discriminating minimal pairs and formulating phonetic transcriptions of problematic sounds focused in class, the course will focus on higher level listening skills and strategies by integration of reading and writing to the course curriculum through content-based activities. Students will be provided with the fundamentals of listening and phonetics namely vowels, consonants, stress in words, rhythm and intonation as well as the usage of phonetic alphabet for learning and production purposes. Collaborative learning through group and pair work will be encouraged.
ELT 177 Oral Communication Skills I (3-0-3)
This course offers a variety of different communication-oriented speaking activities such as discussions, individual presentations and other interactive tasks providing opportunity for students to improve their oral competence by developing effective language use both in formal and informal contexts. By exploring components of communicative competence, this course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to become successful communicators as well as language teachers. Students will utilize the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in listening and pronunciation courses in delivering brief informative, persuasive presentations. Students will develop a good command in supra-segmental features (pitch, stress and intonation) as well. Besides, students will be acquainted with the use of audiovisual aids (OHP, power point, posters) and techniques which will help them become effective speakers.
TURK 171 Turkish 1: Written Expression (2-0-2)
Basic features of written language and written communication , basic differences between written language and spoken language, written expression and oral expression; subjective expression, objective expression , paragraph, kinds of paragraphs (introductory-body-concluding paragraphs). Description of text and kinds of text (informative texts , spelling texts) ; conditions of text (cohesion ,coherence, intentionality, acceptability, knowledge relation between texts) Written expression (written text (essay)= free writing , guided writing) ; guided writing process (topic, narrowing the topic, purpose, point of view, determining main and subordinate ideas; outlining, layout) ; corporate information informative texts about ( formal request, letter, news, decision, announcement/advertisement, written record, report , formal writing, scientific writing) ; working an examples and writing partite ; summarizing a text and outlining; correcting language and expression mistakes in writing exercises.
COMP 171 Computer 1 (2-2-3)
Information , technology, basic concepts of software and hardware, operating system in general , word processor programs, electronic tabulations programs, presenting data, using the internet in education; effects of information teaching an social ospanism and the role of information technology in education, information technology safety and related ethnical concepts.
GCU 171 Effective Communication (3-0-3)
Definition of communication among people ; communication model , components and features of communication , effective listening and feedback, factors that prevent communication among people (source, canal receiver etc), factors that facilitate communication, the role of feelings in communication, important factors in student-teacher-parent interaction, communication practice.
EDU 171 Introduction to Pedagogy (3-0-3)
Basic concepts in education, link between education and other sciences and its function (philosophical social, oral psychological, economic and political basis of education), history of pedagogies, orientations in pedagogies in the 21st century, experimental methods in pedagogic, the structure and characteristics of Turkish Public Education System, the role of learning in education, features of teaching, exercises and progress in the field of teacher training.
Semester 2
ELT 172 Contextual Grammar II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Contextual Grammar I. It helps students to develop a critical perspective into advanced level structures (e.g. word classes, elements of the sentence, types of sentence, sentence fragments etc.) of different types of texts on a contextual level. Building upon analysis and synthesis, students evaluate the most problematic forms of English grammar learning about their function and usage by using methods such as error analysis or discourse analysis. Besides presenting a descriptive review of the forms and function of advanced English grammar structure, this course encourages students to develop a critical stance toward the use of these structures in various contexts. The course also emphasizes interactive activities such as group and pair work.
ELT 174 Advanced Reading and Writing II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Advanced Reading and Writing I. This course promotes higher level thinking skills. By processing a variety of different authentic reading texts, students will develop superior-level sub-skills of reading namely, making inferences and deductions, and reading between the lines. Students will relate inferences from the text to real life, and gain insights into the cultural similarities and differences. By means of the awareness gained from the texts, students will analyze, synthesize and evaluate information and therefore, in their compositions, react to readings. Students will also analyze and produce different types of essays (e.g. comparison and contrast, classification, process analysis, cause-and-effect analysis, and argumentative) that are unified, coherent and organized. In addition to the integration of reading with writing, research-based instruction will be adopted, so that students will develop basic research skills including library/internet search, and basic research report writing skills such as citing, paraphrasing and referencing.
ELT 176 Listening and Pronunciation II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Listening and Pronunciation I and it will focus on basic skills and principles of listening and phonetics. A variety of different authentic listening texts and academic presentations will be utilized to develop students’ receptive listening skills. This course includes such sub-skills of listening as note-taking, predicting, extracting specific and detailed information, guessing meaning from context, and getting the gist. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to aural authentic listening materials such as interviews, movies, songs, lectures, TV shows and news broadcasts. This course also aims to equip student teachers with a strong sensitivity towards different accents of English language being spoken around the world. Collaborative learning through group and pair work will be encouraged.
ELT 178 Oral Communication Skills II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Oral Communication Skills I. It offers extended communicative tasks such as debates, role-plays, individual and group presentations, impromptu speeches and other interactive tasks providing opportunity for students to improve their oral competence by developing effective language use both in formal and informal contexts. Integrating different reading and listening texts into communication-oriented tasks, this course aims to develop students’ productive skills beyond their receptive skills. The course includes discussion topics, interesting facts, stimulating quotes as well as literary texts which are structurally and intellectually complex and thought-provoking thus promoting interest and motivation in communication. Common pronunciation mistakes are listed and discussed so as to raise the awareness of students as future language teachers. It also aims to develop students’ strategic competence to be utilized in repairing communication breakdowns as communication.
ELT 180 Lexical Competence (3-0-3)
This course aims to raise students’ understanding of the relation between lexical items and structural forms as well as expanding their vocabulary knowledge by focusing on the components of word formation including prefixes and suffixes. Students also learn idioms, collocations, slang, euphemisms, neologisms, proverbs and phrasal verbs to help them to better explore, review, play with and enhance their spoken and written expression. Throughout the course, students will engage in interactive content-based tasks such as problem-solving activities, error analysis, and journals writing to increase their vocabulary span.
TURK 172 Turkish 2: Oral Expression (2-0-2)
Basic features of spoken language and oral communication. Oral Expression; basic features of speaking skill (using language and body language); basic principles of a good speech and a good speaker (stress, intonation, hesitation, diction etc.). Impromptu speech and prepared speech,; steps of prepared speech choosing topic and categorizing ; purpose, point of view, determining main idea and supporting ideas, planning, writing text, making speech). Kinds of speech (conversations, chat, introducing yourself, answering questions, celebrating new year, birth etc, describing the way , talking on the phone, applying for a job, meeting / interviewing someone , television lecture and radio speech , attending different cultural and art programs as a speaker, etc). Making important speech on different topics, studies on speech samples and practicing oral expression mistakes in speech.
COMP 172 Computer II (2-2-3)The emphasis of this course is on the application of computers.Topics to be covered include, Decision Support Systems, data management, desktop publishing electronic date interchange, Artifical Intelligence&Expert Systems,communications and negative effects/prevent of these negative effects of the computer and internet on the children/teenagers.
EDU 172 Educational Psychology (3-0-3)
The connection between education and psychology, definition and function of educational psychology, basic concepts of learning and development, features of development, (physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral development) , factors that influence learning, learning theories , reflection of learning theories on education process, effective learning, factors that influence learning ( motivation, internal factors, group dynamics and effects of these factors on class learning process)
Date : 2009-01-06
