ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ELT2007 Contrastive English-Turkish Spring 3 0 2 6
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MUSTAFA POLAT
Course Objectives: This course aims at familiarizing students with some fundamental lexico-grammatical and pronunciation differences between English and Turkish in order to help them understand the nature of learning difficulties encountered by Turkish learners of English in the English language learning process. The contrasts will focus on specific grammatical subsystems of the two standard languages. Common English language errors among Turkish learners will be used to illustrate the adverse influences of the learners’ mother tongue on their ‘learner English’ output.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Discuss some of the problems faced by Turkish learners of English

2. Discuss potential ways to address these in the English language classroom

3. Describe similarities and differences between English and Turkish at the syntactic, morphological, semantic, phonological, and pragmatic levels.

4. Use electronic text corpora in contrastive and learner language analysis.

Course Content

The course gives an introduction to contrastive analysis and error analysis focusing on a comparison of English and Turkish and on the analysis of English as produced by Turkish native speakers. Teaching draws on the following text corpora: the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Turkish component of the International Corpus of Learner English.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introducing Contrastive Linguistics (CL)
2) What is CL? Historical development Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
3) Hierarchy of Difficulty Problems for the CL Hypothesis
4) Levels of description
5) Interlanguage Theory The Birth of Interlanguage
6) Selinker’s View of Interlanguage
7) Other Views of Interlanguage and its Properties Transfer, Interference and Cross-linguistic Influence
8) Positive and Negative Transfer
9) Borrowing Code Switching
10) Fossilization
11) Error Analysis Definitions and Goals Development of Error Analysis
12) The Importance of Learners’ Errors; The Criticism of Error Analysis
13) Linguistic Ignorance and Deviance; Defining Mistake and Errors
14) Procedures of Error Analysis; Sources of Error; Implications of CL in Second Language Learning

Sources

Course Notes: DErsi verecek olan öğretim elemanının hazırladığı ders notları paketi
References: Course pack prepared by the instructor

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 20
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments 1 % 25
Presentation 1 % 25
Project 1 % 30
Seminar % 0
Midterms % 0
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final % 0
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 70
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 30
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 4 10 40
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 0 0 0
Presentations / Seminar 1 5 5
Project 1 5 5
Homework Assignments 5 10 50
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0 0 0
Midterms 0 0 0
Paper Submission 0 0 0
Jury 0 0 0
Final 0 0 0
Total Workload 142

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) 1.Being able to describe the issues related with the scientific resources in the field of teaching, English language teaching and educational technologies within the national and international standards.
2) 2.Proficient in the phonology, semantics, grammar and the vocabulary of the language, use the language effectively.
3) 3. Apply theories and research in language acquisition and development to provide optimal learning environments in English language teaching.
4) 4. develop English language teaching materials according to the needs of the learners with a critical perspective.
5) 5. Use appropriate software and technology resources for language teaching effectively in and out of classroom by locating and selecting them.
6) 6. To improve students' reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, make use of various methods and techniques.
7) 7. Design English language teaching curriculum and lesson plans.
8) 8. Organize effective classrooms that promote English language learning.
9) 9. assess students’ knowledge using multiple measures and alternative assessment techniques in order to evaluate language knowledge and skills in an effective way by using and generating measurement and assessment instruments.
10) 10. Apply major concepts, principles, theories, and research related to the nature and role of culture and cultural groups to construct supportive learning environments and to promote inter-cultural effective communication and pragmatics skills.
11) 11. Take on responsibility in individual and group projects by working cooperatively and meeting the requirements
12) 12. Take into consideration professional and ethical rules and principles.
13) 13. Apply the pedagogical implications of the research in the field of English language teaching for his/her personal and professional development, by keeping up with the recent studies.
14) 14. Use reflective thinking and reflective teaching to examine his/her teaching skills and professional competencies.
15) 15. Transfer the knowledge and skills necessary for life-long learning to students by using metacognitive techniques with the knowledge of how to obtain information effectively.
16) 16. utilize learning strategies and technology resources by evaluating their relevance to K-12 students’ interests, needs, individual differences, and developmental characteristics.