Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue
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| Year/Semester of Study | 1 / Fall Semester | ||||
| Level of Course | 1st Cycle Degree Programme | ||||
| Type of Course | Compulsory | ||||
| Department | TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH) | ||||
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face to Face | ||||
| Teaching Period | 14 Weeks | ||||
| Name of Lecturer | MEHMET TUNAZ (mehmet.tunaz@nevsehir.edu.tr) | ||||
| Name of Lecturer(s) | |||||
| Language of Instruction | Turkish | ||||
| Work Placement(s) | None | ||||
| Objectives of the Course | |||||
| To improve students’ love and understanding of mother tongue who are studying in various departments in accordance with the constantly progressing conditions of the age; to emphasize the connection between language and thought; to enlighten individuals who are scientifically productive, creative, able to use their mother tongue accurately and equipped with contemporary knowledge, in language and literature history. | |||||
| Learning Outcomes | PO | MME | |
| The students who succeeded in this course: | |||
| LO-1 | Can sense the features of the Turkish language and its rules of operation and explain it with examples. |
PO-3 To have problem solving skills to compete with the problems due to the cultural and lingual differences PO-4 To be able to think analiytically |
Examination |
| LO-2 | Can express the function of language, its dimensions, language-thought-culture-society relationship |
PO-2 To be able to have basic and specialized knowledge about the language and history of the cultures taught PO-4 To be able to think analiytically |
Examination |
| LO-3 | Can correctly analyze a text or a program that he/she reads or listens. |
PO-2 To be able to have basic and specialized knowledge about the language and history of the cultures taught PO-3 To have problem solving skills to compete with the problems due to the cultural and lingual differences PO-4 To be able to think analiytically |
Examination |
| PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
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| Course Contents | ||
| Definition of language. Language and communication, language-thought-nation-literature-culture relationship. Types of language. languages on earth. The place of Turkish among the world languages. Historical development of Turkish written language. The current situation of Turkish and its spreading areas. Phonetics, syllables, words, sentences and semantics of Turkish. | ||
| Weekly Course Content | ||
| Week | Subject | Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 | Giving information about the purpose of teaching Turkish Language course in universities and the basic concepts related to the course. Explaining the content, importance, working techniques, rules and requirements of the course. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 2 | Making the definition of language, giving information about the features and birth of language. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 3 | Explaining the relationship between language-thought-nation-literature-culture. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 4 | Understanding the Types of Language. (Cultural language, spoken language, written language, mother tongue, living language, natural language, artificial language, dialect) | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 5 | Language and culture, the elements that make up the culture, the characteristics of the culture, culture and civilization, and revealing the types of culture. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 6 | Introduction of languages in the world, classification of languages, learning the place of Turkish language among world languages by researching. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 7 | Understanding the historical periods of Turkish language, Old Turkish and Middle Turkish periods. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 8 | mid-term exam | |
| 9 | Explanation of parts of grammar. Sounds in Turkish and their classification. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 10 | Historical periods of Turkish Language, Understanding of Modern Turkish Period. Introducing the alphabets used by the Turks. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 11 | Giving information about sounds, syllables, sound changes and sound harmony. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 12 | Morphological features of Turkish. Classification of words, root, stem, base, affixes and affixes. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 13 | Giving information about word types. (Noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, conjunction, exclamation, preposition) | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 14 | Explanation of syntax features of Turkish; Making applications about sentence elements, sentence types and analysis. | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 15 | Explanation of the semantic features of Turkish. (Basic meaning, connotation, figurative meaning, synonymy, antonym, homonymy; semantic phenomena: semantic contraction, semantic expansion, semantic shift, deterioration of meaning, semantic improvement.) | Lecture, presentation, discussion |
| 16 | final exam | |
| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | ||
| Required Course instruments and materials | ||
| Course book | ||
| Assessment Methods | |||
| Type of Assessment | Week | Hours | Weight(%) |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 40 |
| Other assessment methods | |||
| 1.Oral Examination | |||
| 2.Quiz | |||
| 3.Laboratory exam | |||
| 4.Presentation | |||
| 5.Report | |||
| 6.Workshop | |||
| 7.Performance Project | |||
| 8.Term Paper | |||
| 9.Project | |||
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 60 |
| Student Work Load | |||
| Type of Work | Weekly Hours | Number of Weeks | Work Load |
| Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| Outside Class | |||
| a) Reading | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| b) Search in internet/Library | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| c) Performance Project | 0 | ||
| d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report | 0 | ||
| e) Term paper/Project | 0 | ||
| Oral Examination | 0 | ||
| Quiz | 0 | ||
| Laboratory exam | 0 | ||
| Own study for mid-term exam | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| mid-term exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Own study for final exam | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| final exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| Total work load; | 138 | ||