Maria Rombopoulou

University Teacher (PD 407/80)

rikarom[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

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 the Turkish language fluently for general and academic purposes. In this course, students are encouraged to use and express themselves in everyday situations.

The course is built around three areas of language study: spoken interaction, listening comprehension, and vocabulary.

In spoken interaction, students are encouraged to participate actively in long discussions and debates on general topics. They are also trained to express their opinions in discussions by providing relevant explanations, arguments and comments.

In listening comprehension, students are encouraged to follow a lecture, talk or presentation in their field. They are taught to understand TV documentaries, interviews, plays and most films and also to understand the speaker's inner feelings following the intonation in radio news bulletins in standard language. They are trained to use a variety of listening strategies such as checking comprehension and finding out the main ideas by using contextual clues to understand the text profoundly.

In vocabulary, students are encouraged to learn words and phrases related to:

1. Dialogues in public places

2. Future plans

3. Astrology

4. Newspaper advertisements, Internet and telephone messages

5. Gossips

6. Comparison between different cultures

7. Comparison between the past and the present

8. Man-woman: comparison between the two sexes

9. Media

10. Healthy lifestyle - sports

11. Travel

Assessment

During the semester, the students' progress is tested by 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.