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TURKISH GRAMMAR I COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
TDE115 TURKISH GRAMMAR I 1 3 3 7

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY

Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned What is language? Various views about the origination of language: Theological view, innate view, experiential view, anthropological view. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
2 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned World Language Families: World languages in terms of their resources: Indo-European languages, Sino-Tibetan languages, Hami-Semitic languages, Altaic languages ... etc. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
3 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned World language families: World languages in terms of their structures: Additive languages, inflected languages, monosyllabic languages. Introduction of world languages in terms of syntax. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
4 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Briefly historical devolopment of Turkish Language. Introduction of important grammars of Modern Turkish. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
5 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Introduction of linguistic: Basic concepts, symbols and abbreviations. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
6 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Research areas of phonics and phonetics. Phonology: Introducing the concepts of sound device, phoneme, letter, alphabet, transcription, transliteration. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
7 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Turkish sounds: vowels, consonants. Vocal Harmonies: Showing vowel and consonant harmonies. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Syllable and sound relationship. Phonetic characteristics of Turkish and phonetic events in Turkish. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
10 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Completed sound events: vowel contraction, vowel expansion, pre-waxing, post-waxing etc. Introduction of sound events. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
11 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Phonetic events in consonants: Consonant singularization, consonant twinning, consonant dropping, consonant derivation etc. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
12 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Formal Phonetics: Alternations. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
13 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Formal Phonetics: Alternations. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
14 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Tendencies in contemporary Turkish and the study of the influence of foreign languages. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
15 Literature Review, Reading the Material Assigned Introduction of sounds and values not found in the standard alphabet and phonemes not found in Turkish words. Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -