COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NEW APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE EXAMINATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRE 5039 NEW APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE EXAMINATIONS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Turkish Language Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CANER KERIMOĞLU

Offered to

Turkish Language Education

Course Objective

Introduce new approaches in grammar and linguistics

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be aware of current developments in language examinations
2   Have information about grammar theories
3   Have information about linguistics theories
4   Doing practice of theoretical approaches to language
5   Reflect a new approach to the teaching of Turkish language

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of Language Examinations
2 History of Language Examinations
3 Saussure and Language
4 Linguistics currents after Saussure
5 Linguistics currents after Saussure
6 Chomsky and Language
7 Universal Grammar
8 Midterm Exam
9 Traditional Grammar and Linguistics
10 Grammar theories Linguistics-based
11 Development of universal grammar (1957, 1965, 1970, 1980)
12 Functional Grammar Theories (Halliday, Dik)
13 Discussions about basic grammar categories (tense, modality, aspect, numeral, gender, situation vb.)
14 Turkish education and grammar theories
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

N. E. UZUN (2000). Dil Bilgisinin Temel Kavramları. Istanbul: Simurg Yay.
M. Rifat (2005). Dilbilim ve Göstergebilim Kuramları. Istanbul: YKY.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussing, question-answer

Assessment Methods

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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

caner.kerimoğlu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 8 104
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 208

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.153222235
LO.253222235
LO.353222235
LO.453222235
LO.553222235