COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TURKISH-ENGLISH TRANSLATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YIÖ 3004 TURKISH-ENGLISH TRANSLATION COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR TARKAN KAÇMAZ

Offered to

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Course Objective

This course is designed to focus on analysing and comparing the structures and the communicative features of Turkish and English languages, defining and practicing the intermediate and advanced concepts and techniques of translation and practise them through various sample texts. The course ultimately aims at enabling the students to transfer the skills they master during the course to the future ELT environment. This course further aims at providing the students with a general concept and nature of language(s), with the ability to solve problems they may encounter in their future careers and to create and freely express their own opinions.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to analyse sentences / texts in Turkish in terms of their structural/communicative/contextual features, and translate them into English
2   Students will be able to analyse the texts written in Turkish in their contextual features and translate them into English preserving the corresponding features and nuances
3   Students will be able to transfer the knowledge and skills they acquire through translation activities into their learning/teaching process, and
4   Students will be able to build peer-/self-evaluation skills and a general awareness of language(s), and transfer such skills into their future careers effectively.
5   To help the students to connect between language and culture.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General introduction, objectives, course requirements
2 Introduction to Translation, tips and techniques, using a dictionary
3 Simple text translation
4 Simple text translation
5 Simple text translation
6 Simple text translation
7 Newspaper language
8 Newspaper articles
9 Newspaper articles
10 Proverbs, Idioms and Metaphors
11 Poem Translation
12 Miscellanous Sentences

Recomended or Required Reading

Class notes, Miscellaneous Text

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Translating pre-assigned texts in class as a whole class study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tarkan.kacmaz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 2 26
Application 0
Pre Class Self Study 13 2 26
Midterm Preparation 1 11 11
Final Preparation 1 11 11
Paper Preparation 13 2 26
Final Exam 1 1 1
Midterm Exam 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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