70005 C Turkish Language II: Oral production
Maria Rombopoulou
University Teacher (PD 407/80)
3 hours per week
Course Objectives
The goal of the course is to help students develop the necessary knowledge and communicative skills in order to use Turkish fluently for general and academic purposes. In this course, students are encouraged to use and express themselves in simple words.
Course Structure
The course is built around three areas of language study: spoken interaction, listening comprehension, and vocabulary.
In spoken interaction, students are encouraged to ask and answer simple questions in a conversation. They are trained to make use of simple question structures and provide answers in daily life situations (e.g. at a supermarket, at the post office, in a bank, in a restaurant etc.). They are taught to give directions and to talk to people about what to do and where to go, and also arrange the place and the time of a meeting.
In listening comprehension, students are encouraged to understand simple phrases, directions and commands about their basic needs (e.g. while shopping, in a restaurant, in a doctor's office etc.). They are trained to understand the essential information in simple recorded messages (e.g. CDs, telephone messages etc). They are also taught to identify the main idea of a discussion around them when people speak slowly and clearly.
In relation to vocabulary, students are encouraged to learn words and phrases related to:
- daily life-timetable-diary;
- time;
- invitation-offering-agreement-refusal;
- future plans-meeting-travel;
- describing some events;
- responsibilities in the family;
- at the supermarket;
- at the restaurant;
- at the doctor's.
Assessment
During the semester, the students' progress is tested by an optional test which influences the 20% of the final grade, if it is over the base grade, that is 5. In the final exam, which is compulsory, students are tested in three areas of language study: vocabulary, listening comprehension and spoken production.
Bibliography
Teacher's notes and dialogues selected from Turkish sources, like as internet, radio, television programmes, newspapers and magazines.
Kurt, C., Aygün, E., Leblebici, E., Coşkun, Ö., 2008, Yeni Hitit Yabancılar İçin Ders Kitabı I, Unıversity of Ankara Press, Ankara.
Kurtulus, Ö., 2006, Elementary Turkish, Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi,Istanbul.
Şenduran, E., 2006, Bu ne demek? Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Press, Istanbul.