| Code: ETI309 |
Course Title: CONTRASTIVE SYNTAX |
Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 |
ECTS: 4 |
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| Year/Semester of Study |
3 / Fall Semester |
| Level of Course |
1st Cycle Degree Programme |
| Type of Course |
Optional |
| Department |
TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (ENGLISH) |
| Pre-requisities and Co-requisites |
None |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to Face |
| Teaching Period |
14 Weeks |
| Name of Lecturer |
SAMET TAŞÇI (samettasci@nevsehir.edu.tr) |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
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| Language of Instruction |
English |
| Work Placement(s) |
None |
| Objectives of the Course |
| This course introduces students to upper-intermediate and advanced-level syntax, grammar and lexicology through the comparison and contrast with Turkish and English. Translation practices based on the modules of covered materials, texts, vocabulary texts are designed from the pre-advanced and advanced levels with the aim of covering diversified and authentic materials. |
| Learning Outcomes |
PO |
MME |
| The students who succeeded in this course: |
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| LO-1 |
can understand in depth the phonological, morphological, syntactic features and differences of both languages and applying them in translation. |
PO-11 To have efficent elocation, diction and self expression skills for a sufficient use of language
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Examination
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| LO-2 |
can prevent the loss of meaning in translation by understanding the structural differences between the source language and the target language. |
PO-15 To be able to have knowledge of the terminology of various fields (Science, Social and Health Sciences etc.) and being able to use second foreign language and English both as a source and a target language
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Examination
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| LO-3 |
can recognize the different structures that will be transferred from the source language to the target language from the target language to the source language in written and oral translation. |
PO-14 To have a wide knowledge of terminologies of specific fields in both languages
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Examination
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PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation |
| Course Contents |
| The content of the contrastive syntax course covers the comparative analysis and study of sentence, paragraph and text structures of the source language and the target language, both in terms of structure and meaning.
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| Weekly Course Content |
| Week |
Subject |
Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
| 1 |
Syntax: Lexical Rules, Movement Rules, Back to Recursion, Complement Phrases, Study questions |
Discussion and lecture |
| 2 |
Syntax: Lexical Rules, Movement Rules, Back to Recursion, Complement Phrases, Study questions |
Discussion and lecture |
| 3 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Sentence and Clause; Canonical and non-canonical clauses |
Discussion and lecture |
| 4 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – The Structure of Canonical Clauses |
Discussion and lecture |
| 5 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Verbs, Nouns and Noun Phrases |
Discussion and lecture |
| 6 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Adjectives and Adjective Phrases, Adverb and Adverb Phrases, Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases |
Discussion and lecture |
| 7 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Adjectives and Adjective Phrases, Adverb and Adverb Phrases, Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases |
Discussion and lecture |
| 8 |
mid-term exam |
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| 9 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Negation, Clause types and Speech Acts, Subordinate Clauses |
Discussion and lecture |
| 10 |
A short Overview of English Syntax: Study units with TL Comparative Syntax – Coordination, Information Packaging |
Discussion and lecture |
| 11 |
Questions of Syntax – Micro-comparative Syntax |
Discussion and lecture |
| 12 |
Comparative Syntax – Goals of Comparative Syntax; Some Syntactic Universals |
Discussion and lecture |
| 13 |
Practice with Comparative Syntactic Text Analysis passages in Source Language and Target Language-1 |
Discussion and lecture |
| 14 |
Practice with Comparative Syntactic Text Analysis passages in Source Language and Target Language-2 |
Discussion and lecture |
| 15 |
Practice with Comparative Syntactic Text Analysis passages in Source Language and Target Language-3 |
Discussion and lecture |
| 16 |
final exam |
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| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading |
| 1 |
A Short Overview Of English Syntax, Based on The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, Rodney Huddleston |
| 2 |
Questions of Syntax, Richard S. Kayne, OUP, 2019 |
| Required Course instruments and materials |
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