ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ELT5020 | Teaching Language Skills | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi YEŞİM KEŞLİ DOLLAR |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to provide the students with the practical skills they need to teach English and a theoretical background to TESOL. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; At the end of this course students will learn both the theories and practices behind the following: • How to teach speaking skills: teaching the sounds, stress and intonation of English. • How to teach listening skills: practical approaches you can use in the classroom. • How to teach reading skills: practical ideas in teaching intensive and extensive reading. • How to teach writing skills: from individual sentences to descriptive passages. |
This course covers the theories and applications of language teaching skills. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Orientation to the course, syllabus. Sign up for tasks. | |
2) | • Learners • Teachers | |
3) | • Managing the classroom • Planning lessons | |
4) | • Describing learning and teaching | |
5) | • Describing language | |
6) | • Teaching the language system | |
7) | • MIDTERM | |
8) | • Teaching Reading | |
9) | • Teaching Writing | |
10) | Presentations | |
11) | • Teaching Speaking | |
12) | • Teaching Listening | |
13) | Presentations | |
14) | • REVISION | |
15) | • FINAL EXAM |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Harmer, J. (2007). How to teach English. Pearson Longman Brown, H. D. (1994). Teaching by principles: An interactive approach to language pedagogy. USA: Prentice Hall. Doff, A. (1990). Teach English: A training course for teachers. NY: CUP Nunan, D. (1998). Language teaching methodology: A textbook for teachers. Hertfordshire: Prentice Hall Europe. |
References: | Richards, J. C. & Renandya, W. A. (2002). Methodology in language teaching: An anthology of current practice. NY:CUP. Singhal, M. (2006). Teacing reading to adult second language learners. USA: The reading matrix, Inc. Ur, P. A course in language teaching: Practice and theory. NY: CUP. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 3 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 3 | % 20 |
Presentation | 1 | % 20 |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 30 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Application | 2 | 8 | 16 |
Field Work | 4 | 10 | 40 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 3 | 12 | 36 |
Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 10 | 20 |
Homework Assignments | 4 | 12 | 48 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 206 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |