ELTC208

Course Title Course Code Program Level
Language Acquisition ELTC208 English Language Teaching B.A. / B.Sc.

Course Term
(Course Semester)
Teaching and Learning Methods
Credits
Theory Practice Lab Projects/Field Work Seminars/Workshops Other Total Credits ECTS Credits
04
(Spring)		 42 - - - - 80 122 3 4

Teaching Staff Prof. Dr. Abdulvahit Çakır
Language of Instruction İngilizce (English)
Type Of Course Compulsory
Prerequisites
Recommended Optional Programme Component
Course Objectives Understanding the principles and processes involved in native language acquisition and comprehending the effects of native language acquisition on second language acquisition/learning. Discussing and understanding the principles and processes valid in second language learning and use from linguistic, cognitive and psychological perspectives. Associating second language acquisition studies and second language teaching, and accordingly ensuring that processes related to second language acquisition/learning form the basis for language teaching.
Course Content Understanding the principles and processes involved in native language acquisition and comprehending the effects of native language acquisition on second language acquisition/learning. Discussing and understanding the principles and processes valid in second language learning and use from linguistic, cognitive and psychological perspectives. Linking second language acquisition studies and second language teaching, and accordingly ensuring that processes related to second language acquisition/learning form the basis for language teaching.
Learning Outcomes (LO) The achievements of students who complete and succeed in this course are as follows; LO-1 Knows first and second language acquisition theories (behaviorism, innateness, information processing, connectionist models, interactional approach). LO-2 Knows and compares the developmental stages and processes of the mother tongue and the target language. LO-3 Compares second language acquisition in children and adults through recordings of classroom second language interaction and transcription LO-4 Second language acquisition processes, characteristics learned in second language acquisition, and individual differences in final acquisition (e.g.: personality influence, language ability, intelligence, acquisition age, motivation and attitude, learner preferences and beliefs). LO-5 Knows the differences between second language and foreign language learning contexts (e.g. natural and formal education environments).
Mode of Delivery Face to face
Course Outline
Week Topics
1. Week Introduction: Basic concepts and topics, Discussion: Common views on language learning
2. Week Language learning theories (behaviorism, innativism, structuralism)
3. Week First language acquisition
4. Week First language acquisition
5. Week Native language acquisition stages: pre-linguistic, one-word, two-word
6. Week Native language acquisition processes: phonology, lexicology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
7. Week Distinguishing the concepts of acquisition and learning
8. Week Midterm
9. Week Educational psychology(1) positivist school, cognitive psychology
10. Week Educational psychology(2) structuralism, humanism in language teaching (Rogers and Maslow)
11. Week Social interaction (Vygotsky, Feuerstein) How do people learn? Different perspectives on learning
12. Week Second language teaching
13. Week
14. Week Second language teaching
Assessment
  Percentage(%)
Mid-term (%) 40
Quizes (%)
Homeworks/Term papers (%)
Practice (%)
Labs (%)
Projects/Field Work (%)
Seminars/Workshops (%)
Final (%) 60
Other (%)
Total(%) 100
Course Book (s) and/or References Lightbown and Spada (1999) How Languages are Learned, Oxford Uni. Press Gass and Selinker (2001) Second Language Acquisition: An introductory Course, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
Work Placement(s)
The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO)

 

LO1

LO2

LO3

LO4

PQ1

1

2

3

2

PQ2

1

1

1

1

PQ3

2

2

2

3

PQ4

1

1

1

1

PQ5

1

2

3

2

PQ6

2

2

2

2

PQ7

1

1

2

2

PQ8

2

2

2

2

PQ9

3

2

1

1

PQ10

2

2

1

2

PQ11

1

1

2

2

PQ12

2

2

1

1

PQ13

3

1

1

1

PQ14

5

4

4

3

PQ15

1

1

2

2

PQ16

4

3

3

4

PQ17

2

1

1

1

PQ18

1

1

1

1

PQ19

1

2

1

1

PQ20

2

2

1

2

PQ21

1

1

1

2

PQ22

1

2

1

1

PQ23

1

2

1

1

PQ24

1

2

2

1

PQ25

2

2

2

2

PQ26

3

3

3

3

PQ27

3

2

3

3

PQ28

2

3

2

3

PQ29

2

2

1

2

 

          1= very low  2= low   3= medium     4=strong     5=very strong