YDT711 - CULTURAL APPROACHES IN TEACHING TURKISH AS A F. L.
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CULTURAL APPROACHES IN TEACHING TURKISH AS A F. L. | YDT711 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Other: Presentation | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Nurettin DEMÄ°R | |||||
| Course objective | This course aims to discuss and define links between culture and language to enable cultural awareness in language learning, produce the relation between language and culture and create the link between learning language and culture. Examine the code, attitude and behavior that make easier the learning Turkish by transitivity ties between cultures in teaching Turkish as foreign language. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Introducing the culture, concepts of culture, relation between language and culture, features of culture which make more easy or difficult in learning language, role of sayings and proverb in cultural transmission and effect on learning language, use of writing and verbal culture in teaching Turkish as foreign language. | |||||
| References | Demir, H. Özel Okullarda Yabancı Dil Öğretiminin Tarihi Ve Günümüzdeki Yeri. Demirel, Ö. (1991). Türkiye?de Yabancı Dil Öğretmeni Yetiştirmede Karşılaşılan Güçlükler. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 6, 25-39. Genç, A. Türkiye?de İlk Ve Ortaöğretim Okullarında Yabancı Dil Öğretimi Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Retrieved 03.10.201, http://yordam.manas.kg/ekitap/pdf/Manasdergi/sbd/sbd10/sbd-10-10.pdf | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction, importance and concepts of culture |
| Week 2 | Goals and principles of teaching culture: the main goals for teaching culture principles for culture teaching, goals for teaching culture in educational documents |
| Week 3 | Definition of Culture and Competences: Linguistic Competence; Discourse Competence; Strategic Competence; Intercultural Competence; Communicative Competence |
| Week 4 | Ways of teaching culture:Factors influencing the choice of methodology; Foreign Language Teaching Methods & Culture; Technology and Teaching Culture; The most common approaches to the teaching of culture; Techniques and activities for teaching cultur |
| Week 5 | Materials for teaching culture. Different types of textbooks. Checklists for evaluating the cultural dimension in textbooks.Other sources for teaching culture |
| Week 6 | Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2/FL Education Developing Cultural Awareness in Foreign. Language Teaching. Cultural Awareness vs Cultural Knowledge: Sameness & Difference |
| Week 7 | Bringing Culture into the Classroom: Teaching Culture in Literature in the Classroom; The Importance of Teaching Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom |
| Week 8 | Midterm |
| Week 9 | An Intercultural or Cross-Cultural Approach to English Language Teaching Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know, Intercultural Communicative Competence, Implementing an Intercultural Approach |
| Week 10 | Culture and Conversational English Culture and Written Genres |
| Week 11 | Ethnographic Approaches to Culture and Language; Exploring Culture through Interviews |
| Week 12 | Theories related to culture psychological dimensions of cultural studies |
| Week 13 | Approaches Related to Teaching Culture and language |
| Week 14 | Assessing Intercultural Communication: future of acquisition of Turkish and culture |
| Week 15 | General Review |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 30 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 20 |
| Final exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 16 | 60 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 40 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 6 | 84 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 5 | 6 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Total Workload | 49 | 109 | 300 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Produce scientific knowledge to promote Turkish as an the international language. | X | ||||
| 2. Produce on applied and theoretical studies on improved methodology of teaching Turkish as foreign language. | X | ||||
| 3. To assess the historical development of learning Turkish by people of different cultures and develops new approaches on the issue. | X | ||||
| 4. Improve learning and teaching methods of Turkic dialects and sub dialects. | X | ||||
| 5. To produce new approaches and develop material facilitating the learning of Turkish of students who are remotely or closely related to Turkish. | X | ||||
| 6. Produce, develop and use technological tools in learning and teaching Turkish as foreign language. | X | ||||
| 7. Advanced knowledge related to facilitating the learning of Turkish for students of alien societies. | X | ||||
| 8. Produce methodological and socio-cultural materials on the usage of media and mass communication tools to overcome difficulties arising from learning and teaching Turkish as foreign language. | X | ||||
| 9. Improve new methods and contents for course books and material to simplify learning Turkish. | X | ||||
| 10. Produce and apply the necessary techniques for the usage of Turkish as a foreign language in the fields of education and social sciences. | X | ||||
| 11. Use the latest version of technology and software and produce new ones in the field of teaching Turkish as foreign language. | X | ||||
| 12. Update material according the latest trends in the field of in teaching Turkish as foreign language. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest