70009 C Turkish Language III: 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 everyday conversations.
The course is built around three areas of language study: spoken interaction, listening comprehension, and vocabulary.
In spoken interaction, students are encouraged to start, maintain and close conversations on most topics they are familiar with and concern their personal interests. They are trained to express and respond to feelings and attitudes of others, such as surprise, happiness, sadness. They are also taught to handle most situations that are likely to occur during a journey (e.g. asking for an address, checking-in and paying for a ticket, indicating the destination and telling about the preferences.). They are also motivated to talk about their dreams, hopes and objectives.
In listening comprehension, students are encouraged to follow an everyday conversation or a short story and form hypotheses about what will happen next. They are trained to grasp the main ideas of radio or TV programmes and films on familiar topics when spoken slowly in standard language.
In vocabulary, the students are encouraged to learn words and phrases related to:
- personality and character
- interests and free time
- best friends and parents
- describing houses, offices
- directions
- dialogues at banks, restaurants
- weather forecast
- news
- shopping at the greengrocer's, baker's, grocer's or supermarket
- recipes
- natural life.
Assessment
During the semester, the students' progress is tested using an optional quiz 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, such as internet, radio, television programmes, newspapers and magazines.
Kurt, C., Aygün, E., Leblebici, E., Coşkun, Ö., 2008, Yeni Hitit Yabancılar İçin Ders Kitabı II, 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.