| Teaching Staff
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Prof. Dr. Abdulvahit Çakır |
| Language of Instruction |
İngilizce (English) |
| Type Of Course |
Compulsory |
| Prerequisites |
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| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
The main purpose of the course is to teach students the multidimensionality of language and the basic concepts of language acquisition and use, and in this way to contribute to their awareness that language teaching cannot be limited to just teaching grammar. |
| Course Content |
As a continuation of the Linguistics I course, the subjects of language-society, language-culture, language acquisition, pragmatics, discourse analysis will be discussed, and the functioning of language beyond the structural level will be examined. |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The achievements of students who complete and succeed in this course are as follows; LO-1 Gains a more holistic view of language LO-2 Becomes aware of the language-socio-culture relationship LO-3 Evaluates the basic deficiencies in language learning and teaching more consciously. |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Dialects: Regional dialects and Social dialects |
| 2. Week |
Languages in Contact: Lingua Francas, Pidgins, Creoles, Bilingualism |
| 3. Week |
Language and Education: Second Language Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education |
| 4. Week |
Language used |
| 5. Week |
Regularity of Sound Change, Phonological Change, Morphological Change, Syntactic Change |
| 6. Week |
Lexical Change |
| 7. Week |
Reconstructing Dead Languages, Extinct and Endangered Languages, Language Types |
| 8. Week |
Midterm |
| 9. Week |
Children's Language Capacity: Stages in Language Acquisition |
| 10. Week |
Children's Linguistic Capacity: Acquisition of Phonology, Acquisition of Word Meaning, Acquisition of Morphology |
| 11. Week |
Children's Language Capacity: Syntax Acquisition, Pragmatics Acquisition, Sign Language Acquisition |
| 12. Week |
The Role of the Language Environment: Adult Input |
| 13. Week |
Knowing More Than One Language: Bilingualism in Childhood |
| 14. Week |
Knowing More Than One Language: Second Language Acquisition |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
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| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
60 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Fromkin,V.R., N.Hymas & Rodman, R. (2009) An introduction to language. (10th ed) |
| Work Placement(s) |
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| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| LO1 | LO2 | LO3 | PQ1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | PQ2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | PQ3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | PQ4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PQ5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | PQ6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PQ7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | PQ8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | PQ9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PQ10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | PQ11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PQ12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PQ13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | PQ14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | PQ15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | PQ16 | 3 | 3 | 3 | PQ17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | PQ18 | 2 | 4 | 3 | PQ19 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PQ20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PQ21 | 3 | 2 | 2 | PQ22 | 3 | 1 | 3 | PQ23 | 2 | 4 | 3 | PQ24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | PQ25 | 2 | 2 | 2 | PQ26 | 2 | 2 | 4 | PQ27 | 3 | 3 | 4 | PQ28 | 3 | 3 | 4 | PQ29 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
1= very low 2= low 3= medium 4=strong 5=very strong |