The aims of this course are to familiarize the students with the writers and works from different periods of English and American literature, and the original spelling language of English; Periods and basic movements of literature written in English, sample texts belonging to various periods, basic concepts, terms, techniques in these literatures; and to study literary, philosophical and scientific trends from different perspectives.
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & Hyams, N. M. (2009). An introduction to language. Cengage Learning.
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to the content of the course, course objectives
2. Week
The relationship between brain and language, neurological and biological foundations of language
3. Week
Language impairment, language faculty and other cognitive systems
4. Week
General aspects of language acquisition, children's acquisition of sounds, morphemes, phonological and morphological rules
5. Week
Children's acquisition of syntactic rules, acquisition of word meaning, semantic and pragmatic rules, bilingualism
6. Week
Introduction to cognitive linguistics, language processing
7. Week
Computational linguistics, computers and language processing, students' presentations
8. Week
Midterm exam
9. Week
Introduction to sociolinguistics, language and society
10. Week
Dialects, accents, the emergence of pidgin and creole languages
11. Week
Styles and registers, language and gender, students' presentations
12. Week
Introduction to historical linguistics, aspects of language change
13. Week
Major historical changes in English language, Old, Middle, Modern English
14. Week
Language families, language typology, students' presentations
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Project(s)
1
20
Final Exam
1
50
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
Students study basic literary text concepts, terms, techniques and apply main approaches.
LO-2
Students shape selected texts from different periods distinguish and explain literary, philosophical and historical movements behind them.
LO-3
Students get familiarized with the English and American literature writings and works.
LO-4
Students analyze literary texts and examine them with a critical approach.
