70021 C Turkish Language VI: 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 the Turkish language 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 production, listening comprehension, and vocabulary.
In spoken production, students are encouraged to give clear and detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects. They are trained to understand the explanations and different points of view of news items and interviews, and summarise them orally. They are taught to develop a clear coherent cause and effect based argument, linking their ideas logically.
In listening comprehension, students are encouraged to follow a clear lecture, a talk or a presentation on their field. They are taught to understand TV documentaries, interviews, plays and most films and also understand the speaker's inner feelings by 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 profoundly understand the text.
In vocabulary, the students are encouraged to learn words and phrases related to:
1. Aesthetics and art
2.Theatre
3. Cinema
4. Superstitions
5. Celebrations
6. Personality
7. Environment
Assessment
During the semester, the students' progress is tested using an optional quiz (20% of the final grade, if it is over the base grade, that is, 5). In the compulsory final exam, students are tested in three areas of language study: vocabulary, listening comprehension and spoken production.
Bibliography
Teacher's notes and selected dialogues 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 II, Unıversity of Ankara Press, Ankara.