Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION / İDEAE 503 - PROGRAM OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Code: İDEAE 503 Course Title: LEXICOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PROGRAM OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer İHSAN ÜNALDI (ihsan@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The objective of the course is to enable the students to develop their academic vocabulary considerably. To provide knowledge on lexeme as the most fundamental item of language as a system and different types of words and their usage in various contexts are among the other aims of the course.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 PO-1 Defines the basic concepts and principles of assessment and evaluation, and applies this knowledge in school settings.
 		Examination
Oral Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Relationship between lexical items and structural forms, word formation including prefixes and suffixes, idioms, collocations, slang, euphemisms, neologism, proverbs and phrasal verbs in spoken and written language.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction to English lexicon
2 A brief history of the English language Lecturing, discussions and group work
3 The rationale behind forming dictionaries and their place in language pedagogy Lecturing, discussions and group work
4 The mental dictionary in the context of native and foreign language Lecturing, discussions and group work
5 Change of meaning and the relationship between real and metaphorical meaning Lecturing, discussions and group work
6 Meaningful relations among the words in the English language Lecturing, discussions and group work
7 General revision and discussions Lecturing, discussions and group work
8 mid-term exam
9 Examination of prefixes and suffixes in the English language Lecturing, discussions and group work
10 Advanced level academic nouns and collocations Lecturing, discussions and group work
11 Advanced level academic adverbs and collocations Lecturing, discussions and group work
12 Advanced level prepositions and prepositional phrases Lecturing, discussions and group work
13 Advanced level phrasal verbs Lecturing, discussions and group work
14 Advanced level sentence connectors Lecturing, discussions and group work
15 Question & answer and discussions Lecturing, discussions and group work
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 English Vocabulary Today by Barry Blake
2 Longman Dictionary of language teaching and applied linguistics by Jack Richards
Required Course instruments and materials
Textbooks, Dictionaries, Web-based Dictionaries

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 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 16 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
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 2 5 10
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 5 10
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 120