COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEMIOTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRE 6021 SEMIOTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CANER KERIMOĞLU

Offered to

TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Course Objective

Grasp usage of semiotics in language teaching

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be aware of current developments about language examining
2   Introduce semiotics theories
3   Introduce practices of semiotics in language teaching
4   Doing practices of theoretical language approaches
5   Reflect new approaches about language to Turkish education

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 Examining
2 History of Language Examining
3 Saussure and understanding of sign
4 Pierce and semiotics
5 Propp and semiotics of tales
6 Barthes and understanding of sign
7 Greimas and understanding of sign
8 Midterm Exam
9 Practicing semiotics
10 Media and semiotics
11 Art and semiotics
12 Approaches in language teaching
13 Approaches in language teaching
14 Semiotics practices in language teaching
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

F. E. AKERSON (2005). Göstergebilime Giriş. Istanbul: Multilingual Yay.
P. GUIRAUD (1990). Göstergebilim. Istanbul: Imge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussing, Question and 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.kerimoglu@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
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 191

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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