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Oral Communication Skills I

Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
ELT1004	1	Oral Communication Skills I	2/0/0	CC	English	2


Course Goals	1)To help our EFL students overcome their language barriers they have been building all through the previous years due to the misbelief of being unable to communicate in the target language properly. 2)To create self-confident individuals who are not afraid to take risks to speak in daily conversations as well as more formal speeches before masses of people. 3)To encourage the students to believe that they are individuals “who can Express themselves freely and confidently on formal and/or informal level about any kind of topic” rather than being the ones “who know the language but fail in producing that language orally”. 4)To bring out competent teacher trainees of the future years of their education who have comprehensive knowledge of the language concerned; can easily express themselves and transfer the absurbed informationin the most accurate, fluent and effective manner, as native-like as possible.
Prerequisite(s)	ELT 1004 ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Corequisite(s)	ELT 1004 ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Special Requisite(s)	The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Instructor(s)	Assist. Prof. Dr. Taner Hosseini
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule	Thursday 11:00-12:50
Office Hour(s)	Instructor name, day, hours, XXX Campus, office number.
Teaching Methods and Techniques	Lecture, discussion, demonstration.
Principle Sources	Miscellaneous materials compiled to fit the objectives of the course.
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Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	Introduction
2. Week	Elements of communication
3. Week	Basic Listening Skills
4. Week	Basic Listening Skills
5. Week	Nonverbal Communication
6. Week	Models of Communication
7. Week	Common Barriers
8. Week	MID-TERM EXAM
9. Week	Strategies for Effective Communication
10. Week	Public Speaking
11. Week	Public Speaking
12. Week	Individual Student Presentations
13. Week	Individual Student Presentations
14. Week	Summary and Conclusion
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week


Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Midterm(s)	1	30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	3	15
Attendance	1	15
Final Exam	1	40

Program Outcomes
PO-1 S/he can understand, adopt and apply social, cultural and social responsibilities.
PO-2 S/he can take into account students' needs, language development levels, ages, intelligence types and learning styles when preparing a lesson plan.
PO-3 S/he can choose the materials to be used in teaching process by evaluating usefulness, topicality and their effectiveness according to students’ age and language level.
PO-4 S/he can create environments that will ensure the active participation of all students and increase their success.
PO-5 S/he can organize multimedia learning environments inside and outside of the school, which develop all students' interactions with the teacher and each other for learning purposes.
PO-6 S/he can organize educational environment suitable for all students to develop effective language learning strategies.
PO-7 S/he can organize activities for all students to use English grammar and vocabulary correctly and effectively.
PO-8 S/he can organize and apply activities to improve the listening skills of all students.
PO-9 S/he can organize and apply activities that will improve the reading skills of all students.
PO-10 S/he can organize and implement activities that will improve the speaking skills of all students.
PO-11 S/he can organize and implement activities that will improve the writing skills of all students.
PO-12 S/he can enable students to make self-assessment of their language learning processes.
PO-13 S/he can use / develop assessment and evaluation tools and methods to be used in the teaching process in terms of usefulness, validity and reliability.
PO-14 S/he can recognize Turkish National Education system, teaching profession and educational sciences in all aspects
PO-15 S/he can use information and communication technologies by using at least one foreign language.
PO-16 S/he can communicate well with colleagues and other school stakeholders.
PO-17 S/he can follow the professional and ethical rules and take part in cooperative practices.
PO-18 S/he can follow the national and international publications related to the field for their personal and professional development.
PO-19 S/he can use Turkish in accordance with the rules and effectively.
PO-20 S/he can select and apply measurement and evaluation methods in accordance with the gains.
PO-21 S/he can apply contemporary teaching, strategy, methods and techniques.
PO-22 S/he can use class dynamics to create appropriate learning experiences.
PO-23 S/he can make use of sociology, psychology and philosophy in the planning and implementation of educational activities, being aware of the relationship of education with other disciplines.
PO-24 S/he can evaluate the nature, source, limits, accuracy, reliability and validity of information.
PO-25 S/he can understand the methods related to the production of scientific knowledge.
PO-26 S/he can use language learning strategies effectively.
PO-27 S/he can understand, interpret and evaluate the different written texts they will encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-28 S/he can understand, interpret and evaluate the different verbal texts they will encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-29 S/he can communicate orally in different environments that they may encounter in daily and professional life.
PO-30 S/he can create different types of text by using the writing process effectively.
PO-31 S/he can have the knowledge to understand and analyze the properties, structure and functioning of the human language and use them.
PO-32 S/he can understand and analyze concepts and processes related to language learning.
PO-33 S/he can understand and analyze concepts and processes related to language teaching.
PO-34 S/he can gain professional self-confidence (finds himself/ herself sufficient as a teacher).

Learning Outcomes
LO-1 The students learn how to perform imprompt speeches by choosing one of the vaious conversation topics of each week and repeat this as many times as possible all through the semes.
LO-2 The students express themselves in a logical, meaningful, comprehensive and effective way in the target language, sharing their personal life experiences and perspectives to events.
LO-3 The students form debate groups and perform debate-type prepared speech where persuasiveness is given great importance and the whole class is actively involved in the process as the chairman(teacher), debaters and the floor (audience). Each debaters knows her/his duty in the process, thus try to do their best to convince the audience for or against the idea.
LO-4 The students involve in group work and pair work activities to facilitate and trigger speaking in English among classmates.
LO-5 The students identify different usages of various structures, expressions and vocabulary in different circumstances.
LO-6 The students aim to practice speaking in the target language both as accurately and fluently as possible.

Course Assessment Matrix:

Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
PO 1 PO 2 PO 3 PO 4 PO 5 PO 6 PO 7 PO 8 PO 9 PO 10 PO 11 PO 12 PO 13 PO 14 PO 15 PO 16 PO 17 PO 18 PO 19 PO 20 PO 21 PO 22 PO 23 PO 24 PO 25 PO 26 PO 27 PO 28 PO 29 PO 30 PO 31 PO 32 PO 33 PO 34