ADÖ745 - NEUROSCIENCE and FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEUROSCIENCE and FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING | ADÖ745 | 3rd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | German | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Discussion Drill and Practice Project Design/Management | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Fakultatsmitglieder | |||||
| Course objective | From the points of neurolinguistics, examining and discussing the reflections of interdisciplinary studies into foreign language learning and teaching, and coming up with new ideas. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | 1. The aim and fucntion of interdisciplinary approach 2. interdisciplinary approach in foreign language teaching 3. Neurolinguistic research and foreign language teaching 4. German language teaching and learning as a foreign language | |||||
| References | 1. Kandel, E., Kupfermann, I. (1996). Von den Nervenzellen zur Kognition. In: Neurowissenschaften (Kandel, Schwartz, Jessell, Hg.), S. 327-52. Heidelberg: Spektrum. 2. Dittmann J, Schmidt C (1998). Verbales Arbeitsgedächtnis, Lernen und Fremdsprachenerwerb. Ein Forschungsüberblick. Deutsche Sprache 26: 304-336. 3. Schmidt, C. (2000). Arbeitsgedächtnis und fremdsprachliches Leseverstehen. ZFF. 83-101. 4. Schiffler, L. (2000). Neuere physiologische Untersuchungen des Gehrins und das Fremdsprachenlernen. NM 53. 220-3. 5. Butzkamm W. (2002). Psycholinguistik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Tübingen: Francke. 6. Calvin WH (2002) Die Sprache des Gehirns. München: dtv. 7. Callan R (2003). Neuronale Netze. München: Pearson Studium. 8. Götze, L. (2003). Sprachverstehen aus neurowissenschaftlicher und kognitionspsychologischer Perspektive. Brücke 2. 18-24. 9. Hein, T. (2003). Ein großes Broca-Zentrum? Sie sind ein Sprachgenie! FAZ 26. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Course Schedule |
| Week 2 | Educational research in interdisciplinary research |
| Week 3 | Educational research in interdisciplinary research |
| Week 4 | Neurolinguistics as a field and its methods |
| Week 5 | Neurolinguistics as a field and its methods |
| Week 6 | Midterm 1 |
| Week 7 | Brain and language |
| Week 8 | Brain and language |
| Week 9 | Neurolinguistic research and foreign language teaching |
| Week 10 | Neurolinguistic research and foreign language teaching |
| Week 11 | Midterm 2 |
| Week 12 | Project: German language teaching and learning as a foreign language |
| Week 13 | Project: German language teaching and learning as a foreign language |
| Week 14 | Project: German language teaching and learning as a foreign language |
| Week 15 | Project: German language teaching and learning as a foreign language |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 50 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 2 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 12 | 12 | 144 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 1 | 70 | 70 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 60 | 120 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 60 | 60 |
| Total Workload | 30 | 205 | 436 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Develop their knowledge and skills of graduate level on foreign language learning and teaching on an advanced level. | X | ||||
| 2. Develop new ideas,models,methods and applications on foreign language learning and teaching | X | ||||
| 3. Interpret and analyze foreign language education by combining knowledge and skills of interdisciplinary fields and get new knowledge. | X | ||||
| 4. Use the research method and techniques used in the field on an advanced level. | X | ||||
| 5. Follow the current developments in computer soft wares generally in education and specifically in foreign language and use information and communication Technologies on an advanced level | X | ||||
| 6. Use written and spoken forms of German in the scientific works on an advanced level | X | ||||
| 7. Do the analysis, synthesis and interpretation of topics on German as a foreign language in national and international domains and come up with new ideas to contribute to foreign language learning and teaching in Turkey. | X | ||||
| 8. Have effective communication with the experts by providing unique ideas on German learning and teaching | X | ||||
| 9. Research on an authentic topic on German learning and teaching independently and comphrehend,design and apply it. | X | ||||
| 10. Behave according to social, cultural, professional and scientific moral values. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest