Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
TRU0001		Basic Turkish I	4/0/0	EL	Turkish	4

Course Goals	The goal is to give the students the introductory level (A1.1) knowledge of Turkish language in a semester, and help them read and write about basic subjects that they will come across in daily life.
Prerequisite(s)	-
Corequisite(s)	-
Special Requisite(s)	-
Instructor(s)	Lecturer Yakup Türkdil
Course Assistant(s)	Ali Daşman
Schedule	Day, hours, XXX Campus, classroom number.
Office Hour(s)	Instructor name, day, hours, XXX Campus, office number.
Teaching Methods and Techniques	-Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques; Question-Answer-Inference and educative methods focused on four basic linguistic skills.
Principle Sources	-Yabancı Dilim Türkçe 1, Yeni Hitit 1(Turkish for Foreign Students), Workbook, CD
Other Sources	-İstanbul 1 (Turkish for Foreign Students)

Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	Introduction, Students introduce themselves, Alphabet	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
2. Week	Plural Suffix: -lar / -ler, What is this? Who is this?, What are these? Who are these?, Where is it?	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
3. Week	“Var” / “Yok”, Availability (-da/de, -ta/-te), Is there?/Is there not?	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
4. Week	Shopping (in Supermarket), Nerede?, Adjectives	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
5. Week	Where is it? Numbers, General Revision	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
6. Week	Infintive “-mak, -mek”, Present Continuous Tense (Positive, Negative)	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
7. Week	Present Continuous Tense Positive, Negative, Question), Prepositional suffixes (availability, emergence, orientation): -da, -den, -e	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	A Day in Life of a Student, Meeting in Istanbul (Present Continuous)	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
10. Week	What are you doing on weekend?	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
11. Week	Before and after “-Dan sonra”, “-madan önce”, Telling the time	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
12. Week	Optative mood “-mak istemek”, What are you doing before breakfast? General revision, Tourist agency, What are they doing?	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
13. Week	Imperative mood, Fatma Hanım, Possessive suffixes, Possessive functions of possessive suffixes / Noun case suffixes (Genitives), We are going to shopping	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
14. Week	Past Tense, Positive and Negative forms / What did you do? Farmer’s Market / Cinema General Revision	Student Oriented, Communicative Methods and Techniques
15. Week	Final Exams Week
16. Week	Final Exams Week
17. Week	Make-up Exams Week

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)