Semester 1
ELT 171 Contextual Grammar I (3-0-3)
This course aims to promote understanding the relation between language structures and lexical items as well as raising awareness about the attribution of meaning by means of these structures. Within the framework of a context, advanced language structures are analyzed so as to establish relations between form and text type. Synthesizing these structures, students produce advanced level texts employing these structures. The course also emphasizes interactive activities such as group and pair work.
ELT 173 Advanced Reading and Writing I (3-0-3)
This course presents a wide range of authentic reading materials including newspapers, journals, reviews and academic texts in order to comprehend contrasting viewpoints and to predict and identify main ideas and to decode inter-sentential clues. It also aims to equip students with intensive and extensive reading habits. Critical thinking skills such as synthesizing information or analyzing a problem as well as reacting on the basis of evaluation are fostered. Such sub-skills of reading are employed by the students in their writings. Students also analyze and produce different types of writings (e.g. expository paragraph, descriptive paragraph, narrative paragraph, etc.); build up writing skills emphasizing the organization, coherence, and cohesion and such sub-skills as summarizing, outlining, and paraphrasing at paragraph level. The use of spelling and punctuation conventions as well as non-alphabetic symbol use will be practiced as well.
ELT 175 Listening and Pronunciation I (3-0-3)
This course aims to develop students’ listening and pronunciation skills while gaining confidence in communicating in English. It employs authentic listening materials and speech samples used in different discourses in order to be analyzed as communication-oriented classroom activities. Starting from basic listening and phonetic skills such as discriminating minimal pairs and formulating phonetic transcriptions of problematic sounds focused in class, the course will focus on higher level listening skills and strategies by integration of reading and writing to the course curriculum through content-based activities. Students will be provided with the fundamentals of listening and phonetics namely vowels, consonants, stress in words, rhythm and intonation as well as the usage of phonetic alphabet for learning and production purposes. Collaborative learning through group and pair work will be encouraged.
ELT 177 Oral Communication Skills I (3-0-3)
This course offers a variety of different communication-oriented speaking activities such as discussions, individual presentations and other interactive tasks providing opportunity for students to improve their oral competence by developing effective language use both in formal and informal contexts. By exploring components of communicative competence, this course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to become successful communicators as well as language teachers. Students will utilize the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired in listening and pronunciation courses in delivering brief informative, persuasive presentations. Students will develop a good command in supra-segmental features (pitch, stress and intonation) as well. Besides, students will be acquainted with the use of audiovisual aids (OHP, power point, posters) and techniques which will help them become effective speakers.
TURK 171 Turkish 1: Written Expression (2-0-2)
Basic features of written language and written communication , basic differences between written language and spoken language, written expression and oral expression; subjective expression, objective expression , paragraph, kinds of paragraphs (introductory-body-concluding paragraphs). Description of text and kinds of text (informative texts , spelling texts) ; conditions of text (cohesion ,coherence, intentionality, acceptability, knowledge relation between texts) Written expression (written text (essay)= free writing , guided writing) ; guided writing process (topic, narrowing the topic, purpose, point of view, determining main and subordinate ideas; outlining, layout) ; corporate information informative texts about ( formal request, letter, news, decision, announcement/advertisement, written record, report , formal writing, scientific writing) ; working an examples and writing partite ; summarizing a text and outlining; correcting language and expression mistakes in writing exercises.
COMP 171 Computer 1 (2-2-3)
Information , technology, basic concepts of software and hardware, operating system in general , word processor programs, electronic tabulations programs, presenting data, using the internet in education; effects of information teaching an social ospanism and the role of information technology in education, information technology safety and related ethnical concepts.
GCU 171 Effective Communication (3-0-3)
Definition of communication among people ; communication model , components and features of communication , effective listening and feedback, factors that prevent communication among people (source, canal receiver etc), factors that facilitate communication, the role of feelings in communication, important factors in student-teacher-parent interaction, communication practice.
EDU 171 Introduction to Pedagogy (3-0-3)
Basic concepts in education, link between education and other sciences and its function (philosophical social, oral psychological, economic and political basis of education), history of pedagogies, orientations in pedagogies in the 21st century, experimental methods in pedagogic, the structure and characteristics of Turkish Public Education System, the role of learning in education, features of teaching, exercises and progress in the field of teacher training.
Semester 2
ELT 172 Contextual Grammar II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Contextual Grammar I. It helps students to develop a critical perspective into advanced level structures (e.g. word classes, elements of the sentence, types of sentence, sentence fragments etc.) of different types of texts on a contextual level. Building upon analysis and synthesis, students evaluate the most problematic forms of English grammar learning about their function and usage by using methods such as error analysis or discourse analysis. Besides presenting a descriptive review of the forms and function of advanced English grammar structure, this course encourages students to develop a critical stance toward the use of these structures in various contexts. The course also emphasizes interactive activities such as group and pair work.
ELT 174 Advanced Reading and Writing II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Advanced Reading and Writing I. This course promotes higher level thinking skills. By processing a variety of different authentic reading texts, students will develop superior-level sub-skills of reading namely, making inferences and deductions, and reading between the lines. Students will relate inferences from the text to real life, and gain insights into the cultural similarities and differences. By means of the awareness gained from the texts, students will analyze, synthesize and evaluate information and therefore, in their compositions, react to readings. Students will also analyze and produce different types of essays (e.g. comparison and contrast, classification, process analysis, cause-and-effect analysis, and argumentative) that are unified, coherent and organized. In addition to the integration of reading with writing, research-based instruction will be adopted, so that students will develop basic research skills including library/internet search, and basic research report writing skills such as citing, paraphrasing and referencing.
ELT 176 Listening and Pronunciation II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Listening and Pronunciation I and it will focus on basic skills and principles of listening and phonetics. A variety of different authentic listening texts and academic presentations will be utilized to develop students’ receptive listening skills. This course includes such sub-skills of listening as note-taking, predicting, extracting specific and detailed information, guessing meaning from context, and getting the gist. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to aural authentic listening materials such as interviews, movies, songs, lectures, TV shows and news broadcasts. This course also aims to equip student teachers with a strong sensitivity towards different accents of English language being spoken around the world. Collaborative learning through group and pair work will be encouraged.
ELT 178 Oral Communication Skills II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Oral Communication Skills I. It offers extended communicative tasks such as debates, role-plays, individual and group presentations, impromptu speeches and other interactive tasks providing opportunity for students to improve their oral competence by developing effective language use both in formal and informal contexts. Integrating different reading and listening texts into communication-oriented tasks, this course aims to develop students’ productive skills beyond their receptive skills. The course includes discussion topics, interesting facts, stimulating quotes as well as literary texts which are structurally and intellectually complex and thought-provoking thus promoting interest and motivation in communication. Common pronunciation mistakes are listed and discussed so as to raise the awareness of students as future language teachers. It also aims to develop students’ strategic competence to be utilized in repairing communication breakdowns as communication.
ELT 180 Lexical Competence (3-0-3)
This course aims to raise students’ understanding of the relation between lexical items and structural forms as well as expanding their vocabulary knowledge by focusing on the components of word formation including prefixes and suffixes. Students also learn idioms, collocations, slang, euphemisms, neologisms, proverbs and phrasal verbs to help them to better explore, review, play with and enhance their spoken and written expression. Throughout the course, students will engage in interactive content-based tasks such as problem-solving activities, error analysis, and journals writing to increase their vocabulary span.
TURK 172 Turkish 2: Oral Expression (2-0-2)
Basic features of spoken language and oral communication. Oral Expression; basic features of speaking skill (using language and body language); basic principles of a good speech and a good speaker (stress, intonation, hesitation, diction etc.). Impromptu speech and prepared speech,; steps of prepared speech ( choosing topic and categorizing ; purpose, point of view, determining main idea and supporting ideas, planning, writing text, making speech). Kinds of speech (conversations, chat, introducing yourself, answering questions, celebrating new year, birth etc, describing the way , talking on the phone, applying for a job, meeting / interviewing someone , television lecture and radio speech , attending different cultural and art programs as a speaker, etc). Making important speech on different topics, studies on speech samples and practicing oral expression mistakes in speech.
COMP 172 Computer II (2-2-3)
The emphasis of this course is on the application of computers.Topics to be covered include, Decision Support Systems, data management, desktop publishing electronic date interchange, Artifical Intelligence&Expert Systems,communications and negative effects/prevent of these negative effects of the computer and internet on the children/teenagers.
EDU 172 Educational Psychology (3-0-3)
The connection between education and psychology, definition and function of educational psychology, basic concepts of learning and development, features of development, (physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral development) , factors that influence learning, learning theories , reflection of learning theories on education process, effective learning, factors that influence learning ( motivation, internal factors, group dynamics and effects of these factors on class learning process)
Semester 3
ELT 271 English Literature I (3-0-3)
This introductory course includes brief cultural history of British and American literature and literary works written in English, fundamental terms and techniques used while studying a literary text, introduction to the major genres and styles in literature, and introduction to the movements and periods in literature in English. Students analyze the content and style of various literary texts such as short story, poem, drama and novel representing different periods and genres of English literature. This course also focuses on developing an appreciation for the contribution of literature to our understanding of life. Students use literary tools to analyze and critically evaluate the works they have read. This course, through classroom discussions, aims to help students gain a critical perspective towards the texts. Students also analyze literary arts used in these texts, and interpret them so as to make deductions, inferences and evaluations.
ELT 273 Linguistics I (3-0-3)
This course gives an introduction to the basic concepts in linguistic analysis; understanding the nature, structure, and use of language by way of awareness raising activities, error analysis of language learners’ production, case studies, and comparative analysis of native and target languages. The topics under investigation are the components of language as a system: linguistic competence and performance, branches of linguistics, types of grammar, language universals, creativity of linguistic knowledge, arbitrariness of language, sign languages, artificial languages and animal communication; brain and language:, lateralization and handedness, evolution of language, human language processing models, research on language and disorders (e.g., dichotic listening, split brain, WADA); phonetics: acoustic, auditory and articulatory phonetics, speech organs, phoneme, vowels and consonants, IPA, diphthongs, tripthongs, manner and place of articulation; phonology: sound patterns, assimilation, dissimilation, linking, consonant clusters, silent letters, suprasegmentals, stress and intonation; semantics: componential analysis, entailment, semantic relations, sense and reference, collocational meaning.
ELT 275 Approaches to ELT I (3-0-3)
This course presents basic issues and processes in ELT course design. It focuses on identifying the differences between approaches, methods and techniques and the significance of these concepts in course design. A critical overview on methods and approaches, taking a historical perspective, is presented: Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio-lingual Method, Silent Way, Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia, Communicative Approach, the Natural Approach. Student teachers will discover and synthesize classroom application possibilities of such methods through designing micro-teaching of activities associated with them.
ELT 277 English-Turkish Translation (3-0-3)
This course includes the fundamental theories and approaches in the science of translation. Students translate a variety of different authentic English texts into Turkish. Besides translation activities from diverse areas, students also engage in error analysis tasks in which they critically evaluate the appropriateness of the various translations of the same text and its comparison to their own translation by employing different translation skills. Various aspects of translation will be evaluated including style, word selection, the role and importance of translation in language learning and teaching and cultural aspects of translation. The practical aspect of the course will go hand in hand with readings covering theoretical grounds pertinent to current issues in the field of translation. Exposure to and translation of ELT-related materials will also be encouraged.
ELT 279 Oral Expression and Public Speaking* (3-0-3)
This course is an introduction to public speaking and focuses on the development of practical skills for effective communication. It emphasizes fundamental stages of speech preparation and delivery including adopting and developing audio and visual aids. Throughout the course, students will deliver extended presentations as an outcome of extensive reading and research. Samples of successful presentations will be analyzed in terms of the appropriateness of content, form, and audiovisual aids. The course also aims to foster students’ oral and written language skills in job-related situations such as interviewing, socializing, telephoning, presenting information, holding meetings as well as CV and application writing.
GCU 271 Learning and Development * (2-0-2)
The course will examine the development of human beings from different perspectives, such as individual, social, psychological, ethical, physical and cognitive. The course will also provide an introduction to child development, adult learning, and the importance of individual differences and different learning styles in learning and teaching.
EDU 271 Principles and Methods of Teaching (3-0-3
Related major concepts with education, teaching and learning principles, the importance and earnings of planned study, to have planned education (structured term plan, daily plan with affectivity samples), learning and teaching strategies, techniques and methods of teaching, their relation with their application, teaching materials, responsibilities and aims of education with regard to improving quality of education.
Semester 4
ELT 272 English Literature II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of English Literature I. It explores a variety of literary texts from a range of eras and writers of British and American literature and literary works written in English. Students will have the chance to practice their knowledge about key terms and concepts by analyzing literary texts in order to identify these concepts and their use in a text. The course will provide a solid foundation about the fundamental movements and periods in literature written in English. Through the use of selected literary texts from various periods, fundamental concepts, terms, techniques and literary, philosophical and scientific approaches movements in these literatures will be examined. Student teachers are expected to prepare focused writing assignments for designated topics.
ELT 274 Linguistics II (3-0-3)
This course is a continuation of Linguistics I. An elaboration on further topics in linguistics is presented by way of awareness raising activities, error analysis of language learners’ production data, case studies, and comparative analysis of native and target languages. The topics under investigation are: morphology; free and bound morphemes, compounds, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, morphemic analysis, morphological typology of languages, analysis of the internal hierarchical structure of words, morphophonological variation; syntax: word categories, phrase and clause structure, transformational-generative grammar, government and binding, minimalist program, argument structure, theta-roles; pragmatics: deixis, implicature, conversational maxims, speech acts and politeness. sociolinguistics; dialects, register, style; discourse: criteria for textuality, types of cohesive devices, discourse connections, functions, the discourse situation, institutional discourse, and similar topics.
ELT 276 Approaches to ELT II (3-0-3)
As a continuation of Approaches to ELT I, this course focuses on current issues and practices in ELT course design, selecting the appropriate approach suitable to learner needs based on current distinctions such as ESL, EFL, EIL, ESP, EAP. It outlines current foreign language teaching trends such as constructivist approach, content-based instruction, task-based instruction, problem-based teaching, multiple intelligences, whole language approach and corpus-based applications of language teaching and designing micro-teaching of activities associated with them. This course aims to raise awareness of issues of culture and classroom second/foreign language learning, of technology use in language classrooms, and of the need for developing communicative and intercultural competencies for the language learner and teacher of the globalized world and designing micro-teaching of activities associated with them.
ELT 278 Language Acquisition (3-0-3)
This course presents an overview of the theories of first and second language acquisition (e.g.: behaviorism, innatism, information processing, connectionism, the interactionist position) and focuses on the developmental stages and sequences of first and target language acquisition. Case studies, comparative analysis of the use of native and target languages in corpus data (e.g.: CHILDES database), recordings and/or transcriptions of real second language classroom interaction will be employed for the analysis of first and second language acquisition; comparison of second language acquisition in children and in adults; identifying developmental sequences in first language acquisition; stages in second language morpho-syntactic development; processes in second language acquisition; learner characteristics and individual variation in ultimate attainment in second language acquisition (e.g.: role of personality, language aptitude, intelligence, age of acquisition, motivation and attitudes, learner preferences and beliefs); differences between second language acquisition and foreign language learning contexts (e.g.: natural vs. instructional settings). Lectures, group and pair work activities will be utilized.
GCU 272 Scientific Research Methods (2-0-2)
Science and general concepts (fact, knowledge , absolute, incorrect, universal knowledge etc.), general information about the history of science, structure of scientific research, scientific methods and different thoughts about these methods, problem, research model, universe and sampling, data collecting and methods of data receiving (quantitative and qualitative data gathering methods), saving of those data, analysis, reporting and interpretation.
EDU 272 Methodology I (2-2-3)
In order to determine the needs of language learning (e.g. conditional, objective, subjective and language) aim reporting and needs analysis, designing of lesson observation, to be able to prepare the lesson plans the required knowledge and skill development is target. The different lesson stages (presentation, practicing and producing), lesson planning and lesson developing are taken place. The major aim of the lesson is to give the opportunity to the teacher candidates to experience with the different kinds of observations and learner requirements, the age of learners, by considering the lesson goals, the criteria of suitable observation selections, sufficiency descriptions, sufficiency of English and its directivity, European Common Application Text and European Language Development Portfolio, and identification are the some of the subjects which will take place.
EDU 274 Teaching Technology and Materilas Development (2-2-3)
Special technical features on various education, teaching teachnology by means of using and developing assorted quality material (eg. work/study plates, transparent slides, video, computer based materials) with constructions and evaluation methods.
Semester 5
ELT 371 Teaching English to Young Learners I (2-2-3)
This course gives an overview of the difference between young learners (K-6) and learners of a different age (in terms of learning language structures, skills and sub-skills) and misconceptions about young learners. The aim of the course is to help student teachers identify learner styles (e.g.: visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and strategies (e.g.: meta cognitive, cognitive, socio affective) of young learners and develop activities (e.g.: puzzles, stories and games, simulations) and audio visual aids (e.g.: pictures, realia, cartoons, puppets, songs) for the teaching of vocabulary, language skills and structures; select and sequence teaching points and adapt and evaluate materials according to the cognitive and affective development and language level of the learners; to outline classroom management techniques necessary for teachers of young learner classrooms; to emphasize the importance of collaborative learning and interaction through group and pair work, and of ways to encourage young learners to respect each other’s learning styles and strategies, and sharing responsibility for self and others’ learning.
ELT 373 Methodology II (2-2-3)
This course is a continuation of the Special Teaching Methods I course. The aim of this course is to detect the language problems that learners face, and to provide learners with necessary knowledge and skills to develop appropriate activities. The teacher will ask the students to prepare lesson plans and perform micro teaching activities. In what concerns the resources used by teachers and their personal development the students will be informed about occupational organizations, like TESOL and INGED and about professional publications such as English Teaching Form, ELTJ, TESLJ and TESL. Articles about “teaching a language and methods” from those publications will be discussed.
ELT 375 Teaching Language Skills I (2-2-3)
This course concentrates on building language awareness and teaching skills through a detailed study of techniques and stages of teaching listening, speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary to language learners at various ages and language proficiency levels. Student teachers will design individual and/or group micro-teaching activities focusing on the language skills above with adherence to principles of lesson planning and techniques of the specific skills for a variety proficiency levels.
ELT 377 Cultural Studies I (3-0)3
The course will explore different media – literature, cinema, the mass media and computer-based media – with the purpose of enriching students’ understanding of English language cultures and exploring the application of these resources to English language teaching.
ELT 379 Communicative Tasks in English Language Teaching (2-0)2
This course will address the process of communication, its importance in language teaching, and how best to foster it in the language classroom. The communicative task will be analyzed in terms of participants and information and different types of task will be discussed and practiced.
GCU 301 Drama (2-2-3)
The aim of the course is to define pedagogical drama and make students understand its meaning by highlighting the differences between pedagogical drama and similar terms like psycho-drama, creative drama, drama play and drama. Moreover, the course aims at presenting a history of drama used in children education, the frame and the practical phase of the educational drama, categorizing it according to age groups and fields where it can be applied, teachers’ quality and the special techniques used.
EDU 371 Classroom Managements (2-0-2)
The course refers to the concept of classroom management which involves, among other things, patterns of interaction in the classroom and the different meanings of classroom management besides the primary meaning of discipline in the classroom. The course also deals with internal and external factors that affect classroom environment, classroom management models, creating and applying rules in the classroom, grouping patterns, dealing with unwanted behavior in the class, time management in the class, ways of creating a positive environment for learning.
Semester 6
ELT 372 Teaching English to Young Learners II (2-2-3)
This course is a continuation of Teaching English to Young Learners I. The intent of the course is analyzing how to design young learner course syllabuses focusing on the applicability of different syllabus types (e.g.: story-based, content-based, theme-based, task-based) and the effective ways to make use of child literature within a chosen syllabus. Analysis and discussions of video recordings of young learner classrooms with reference to classroom management, presentation of language and practice in class will be utilized. Student teachers will design a course and/or materials for a chosen syllabus type teaching activities and assessment practices for a diverse range of young learners (K-6).
ELT 374 Turkish-English Translation (3-0-3)
Being the counterpart of English-Turkish Translation, this course will rely on both theoretical as well as practical grounds. Adopting a contrastive analysis method, students evaluate the effectiveness of a translation paying attention to the idiosyncrasies regarding the unique nature of Turkish and English. Various aspects of translation will be evaluated including style, word selection, the role and importance of translation in language learning and teaching and cultural aspects of translation. The practical aspect of the course will go hand in hand with readings covering theoretical grounds pertinent to current issues in the field of translation. Exposure to and translation of ELT-related materials will also be encouraged.
ELT 376 Teaching Language Skills II (2-2-3)
This course is a continuation of Teaching Language Skills I. This course concentrates on building language awareness and teaching skills through a detailed study of techniques used in and stages of teaching reading, writing, and grammar to language learners at various ages and language proficiency levels. Student teachers will design individual and/or group micro teaching activities focusing on the integration of the language skills above with adherence to principles of lesson planning and techniques of the specific skills for a variety proficiency levels.
ELT 378 Cultural Studies II (3-0-3)
The course will continue from where Cultural Studies I left off in exploring different media- literature, cinema, the mass media and computer-based media with the purpose of enriching students’ understanding of English language cultures and exploring the application of these resources to English language teaching.
ELT 380 Language Awareness (2-0-2)
This course will study elements of general linguistics which are relevant to the learning of a foreign language, such as prescriptive and descriptive traditions, language and identity, typology and universals, world languages and languages for special purposes.
GCU 372 Practices of Community Services (1-2-2)
The course aims at underlining the importance of community serving practices, defining daily problems of the community and preparing projects in order to solve the problems, participating in seminars, conferences, congresses and symposiums as audience, organizer or presenter, joining social responsibility projects on volunteer-basis, acquiring skills that can be applied in community serving practice.
EDU 372 Testing and Assessment (3-0-3)
The course aims at underlining the importance of testing and assessment in education, basic concepts in testing and assessment ( reliability, validity, usefulness, etc.), instruments which are used in education, instruments that are traditional approaches, different ways of learning about students, statistical calculation used in testing and assessing results, assessment of learning outcome, grading and developing assessment instruments in the field.
1. Course descriptions in Year 4 are the same as those in 2005-2006 Academic Year, 2006-2007 Academic Year, and 2007-2008 Academic Year