Information Package / Course Catalogue
Turkish Language
Course Code: TD101
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: N/A
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 4
Prt.: 0
Credit: 4
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

This course aims to teach students the basic skills of understading and expression, allow reading and analysis of texts, teach the methods of preparing projects and useful methods of preparing essays and presentations and also to allow the students to acquire the ability to correctly use Turkish in terms of language- thought in written and verbal expressions.

Course Content

Types and features of written and verbal expressions, presentations of their samples, problems with expression and sentence structure in Turkish.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Ins. Birsen DOĞAR
Ins. Cevriye FADILOĞLU
Ins. Fatma SİNECEN
Ins. Gökhan TÜRK
Ins. Metin POLAT
Ins. Mustafa EROL
Ins. Nilay AKAY GÖKALP
Ins. Nilüfer KARADAVUT
Ins. Perihan YİĞİT KARAZEYBEK
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to obtain general information about essays and skills of planning to be used in essay writing.
2.To be able to learn the basic features of language families in the world and to speculate about the place of the Turkish language among world languages.
3.To allow active participation in their educational period by giving responsibility.
4.To understand the types of oral and written expression and to have knowledge about their application.
5.To learn what language expression disorder is and to improve written expression.
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Definition of language; language, communication and culture.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Classification of languages in the world, the place of Turkish among world languages and the alphabets used by Turks.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Historical periods of the Turkish language I (with examples)
Week 4 - Theoretical
Historical periods of the Turkish language II (with examples)
Week 5 - Theoretical
Today's spread areas and vocabulary of Turkish.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Phonetics of Turkish.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Spelling and punctuation rules.
Week 8 - Theoretical
Semantic.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Expression disorder.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Composition.
Week 11 - Theoretical
Types of verbal expression.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Types of verbal expression (with examples).
Week 13 - Theoretical
Types of written expression.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Types of written expression (with examples).
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Final Examination1%100
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140456
Individual Work251030
Final Examination115116
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)102
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes