ENGLISH LINGUISTICS COURSE CONTENTS

FALL SEMESTER

1st YEAR

1321012 BASIC CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE I (Compulsory)

In this course, the following topics will be discussed: stages of language acquisition, differences between accent and dialect, bilingualism, origins of language, languages of the world, and sign language.

1321013 TEXT ANALYSIS I (Compulsory)

The course is mainly concerned with the following skills: Scanning, Skimming, Identifying register features, Cloze Tests, Making inferences, Vocabulary through reading, Grammar: Passive Voice, Past/Present perfect, Conditionals, Modal verbs, Wishes and regrets.

1321014 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS I (Compulsory)

In this course students learn and practice the following: pre-writing narrowing down a topic, finding a controlling idea, finding supporting details, writing a conclusion, the qualifications of an academic paragraph (unity, coherence, cohesion), how to use the linguistic device to achieve these qualifications, qualifications of major and minor details, how to outline, draft, revise and edit a well-developed and well-written paragraph, the illustrative paragraph, the narrative paragraph and the descriptive paragraph.

1321018 ENGLISH GRAMMAR I (Compulsory)

In this course, modals, adverb clauses, conditionals, noun clauses, subjunctive verbs, emphatic structures, and cleft sentences are the topics to be covered.

1321009 ATATURK'S PRINCIPLES & HISTORY OF REVOLUTION I (Compulsory)

Atatürk’s Principles and Revolution History-I expresses the historical conditions of the Turkish Revolutions and includes the purpose and meaning of the revolution.

1321010 TURKISH I (Compulsory)

Definition and characteristics of language, language-nation-language-thought, and language-culture relationship. Languages in the world. The place and historical development of the Turkish language among these languages. Atatürk's language revolution, understanding, and studies. Expression elements. Writing plan. Spelling rules and application. Punctuation marks and application. Expression forms. Ways of developing thought. Written narrative types.

1321016 FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (Compulsory)

The course contents include A1.1 level pronunciation, accent, vocabulary, sentence structure, and writing activities.

1321019 COMPUTER SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS I (Compulsory)

 

2nd YEAR

1322023 RESEARCH METHODS I (Compulsory)

In this course, critical thinking and reading skills, pre-writing processes, general writing skills, and data collection techniques are examined within the broader perspective of conducting scientific research. Within the framework of academic writing conventions, the course will cover the characteristics of research articles and review articles, proper citation and referencing styles (such as APA), and quotation and paraphrasing techniques. By the end of the course, students are expected to develop a critical perspective on research processes and gain the skills necessary to plan and carry out their own academic work.

1323021 MORPHOLOGY I (Compulsory)

This course introduces the basic concepts of morphology, a subfield of linguistics, and the basic morphological processes common to many languages, including derivation and compounding. The internal structure of words is analyzed, and various linguistic data are analyzed morphologically.

1323022 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS III (Compulsory)

In this course, strategies to use Metacognitive Skills are covered.

1323020 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS I (Compulsory)

In this course, the nature of language, linguistics as a scientific discipline, linguistic knowledge, language acquisition, language and the brain, communication systems, and functions of language are examined.

1323012 PHONETICS (Compulsory)

In this course, the student understands the basic rules and principles of articulatory and acoustic phonetics; distinguishes human voice in terms of its segmental and suprasegmental features, and performs acoustic phonetics analysis.

1323024 FOREIGN LANGUAGE III (Compulsory)

 

1323015 TRANSLATION I (Elective)

In this course, students analyze simple and complex structures in Turkish and English using basic translation techniques and translate numerous sample structures in both languages.

1322025 LANGUAGE CHANGES I (Elective)

In this course, lexical and morphological language changes are covered.

1323011 WORLD LANGUAGES (Elective)

In this course, the following topics will be discussed: Indo-European Languages, Non-Indo-European Languages of Europe and India, Languages of Caucasus, Languages of Northern Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa, Languages of Eastern Asia, Languages of South Sea Islands, Aboriginal languages of Australia and Papua New Guina, Native Languages of Americas, Macro Families, Pidgins, Creoles and other mixed languages and the extinction of languages.

 

3rd YEAR

1325002 STRUCTURE OF TURKISH I (Compulsory)

In this course, the phonetic and phonological characteristics of Turkish vowel and consonant phonemes, phonotactic rules, phonological and morphophonological processes, stress, intonation in Turkish, nominal morphology, number, case, and principles of suffixation are the topics to be covered.

1325008 SEMANTICS I (Compulsory)

In this course, sentences, utterances, and propositions, reference and sense, different types of referents, predicates, and referring expressions, universe of discourse, extensions and prototypes, different types of meaning, semantic roles of arguments, sense properties and stereotypes, and lexical relations among words are examined.

1325009 PRAGMATICS (Compulsory)

In this course, after the introduction and exemplification of the basic concepts in pragmatics, the pragmatic properties of Turkish and English are analyzed partly through lecturing, partly through the discussion of specific articles on each topic, and partly through the original examples produced by the students themselves.

1325018 SYNTAX I (Compulsory)

In this course, Generative Syntax is covered.

1325012 CORPUS LINGUISTICS I (Elective)

In this course, the scope of corpus linguistics, principles of corpus building, steps of corpus construction-planning, collecting and computerizing data, annotating data, and corpus processing tools are the topics to be covered.

1325015 FIELDWORK IN LINGUISTICS I (Elective)

In this course, methods of doing Linguistic Fieldwork are covered.

1325019 ACADEMIC READING, WRITING AND SPEAKING (Elective)

In this course, academic reading, writing, and speaking strategies are explained; then, these skills are strengthened in applied studies such as the preparation of papers and presentations.

 

4th YEAR

1327006 GRADUATION STUDY I (Compulsory)

In this course, choosing and narrowing thesis topic, writing problem statements and hypotheses, data collection techniques, tools for data analysis, and research writing are the topics to be covered.

1327023 APPLIED LINGUISTICS (Compulsory)

In this course, first, an outline of the fundamental theories in language and linguistics is revised, second, prescriptive and descriptive views of correctness are described, third, the general scope of forensic linguistics is examined, and fourth, different theories of grammar are related to language teaching.

1327024 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (Compulsory)

In this course, the psychological processing of language is covered.

1327018 DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (Elective)

In this course, basic concepts, scope and approaches in discourse analysis, standards of textuality, information structure and textuality, referring expressions in discourse and their relations to cohesion and coherence, the concepts of genre and genre analysis, and critical discourse analysis are the topics to be covered.

1327019 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (Elective)

In this course, the collection and examination of linguistic structures to be processed in computers, the fundamentals of finite state machines, and the identification of tagging of morphemes and different parts of speech in language are the topics to be covered.

1327020 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (Elective)

In this course, the concept of culture, the interaction between language and culture in lexicon (fixed expressions, idioms, and proverbs), linguistic relativity, cultural key word analysis, cognitive linguistics, and cultural studies (the concept of metaphor), cross-cultural pragmatics (studies on politeness) are the topics to be covered.

1327021 SEMINAR IN LINGUISTICS (Elective)

In this course, what language corpora are and how they evolved, how corpora can be used in language teaching, what data-driven learning is, and how spoken and written language corpora can be used in areas such as vocabulary, grammar, writing, and media discourse.

1327022 HISTORY OF TURKISH (Elective)

In this course, the history of the Turkish Language is covered.

 

SPRING SEMESTER

1st YEAR

1322011 BASIC CONCEPTS OF LANGUAGE II (Compulsory)

In this course, the theoretical background (related to the basic concepts of communication, language, and linguistics) is presented with related reading passages.

1322012 TEXT ANALYSIS II (Compulsory)

The course is mainly concerned with the following skills: Scanning, Skimming, Identifying register features, cloze tests, making inferences, vocabulary through reading, grammar: gerunds, infinitives, defining and non-defining clauses, expressions of future, modal verbs, reported speech.

1322013 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS II (Compulsory)

In this course, students learn and practice the techniques to produce well-developed and well-organized academic paragraphs of various types, namely process, definition, comparison, contrast, classification, cause and effect, and persuasive paragraphs.

1322017 ENGLISH GRAMMAR II (Compulsory)

In this course, English grammatical structures will be covered. 

1322009 ATATURK'S PRINCIPLES & HISTORY OF REVOLUTION II (Compulsory)

Atatürk’s Principles and Revolution History-I expresses the historical conditions of the Turkish Revolutions and includes the purpose and meaning of the revolution.

1322010 TURKISH II (Compulsory)

The word and its meaning, words in terms of their meanings, literal, connotative, and figurative meanings of words, idioms, dilemmas, and terms. Language mistakes (mistakes related to the structure and meaning of the word). Language errors. Types of written expression: Narratives (story, novel examples), Opinion texts (article, essay, joke examples), Emotion writings (poetry examples). Examples of communiqués, minutes, and reports. Examples of petitions, business letters, and CVs. Types of oral expression: discussion, seminar, panel, debate...

1322015 FOREIGN LANGUAGE II (Compulsory)

The course contents include A1.2 level pronunciation, accent, vocabulary, sentence structure,e and writing activities.

1322018 COMPUTER SKILLS AND APPLICATIONS II (Compulsory)

 

2nd YEAR

1324023 RESEARCH METHODS II (Compulsory)

In this course, the students will be actively engaged with the formal processes of writing a research paper in their field of study; documenting sources using the APA, preparing note-cards of summary, paraphrase, and synthesis, and blending them all into a continuous piece of an academic paper.

1324021 MORPHOLOGY II (Compulsory)

In this course, the key concepts of inflection, derivation, and compounding are reintroduced with a focus on how these matters feed into our understanding of the interfaces between morphology and other components of the grammar, such as phonology, syntax, and semantics. The models and rules of morphological processes and representation are examined.

1324022 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS IV (Compulsory)

In this course, strategies to use metacognitive skills are covered.

1324020 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS II (Compulsory)

In this course, linguistic sign, language as a system, relations among signs, structuralism, medium of language, origins of language, and families of language are dealt with.

1324012 PHONOLOGY (Compulsory)

The course includes the definition of basic principles of phonological theories and their principles, a sample analysis of different phonological structures in languages, especially in English and in Turkish.

1322024 FOREIGN LANGUAGE IV (Compulsory)

1324015 TRANSLATION II (Elective)

In this course, students analyze literary texts and academic texts in terms of basic translation techniques, and they translate various texts written in both languages.

1324011 LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY (Elective)

Research methods in anthropological linguistics, the relation of language-thought-culture, multilingualism, and language and gender will be discussed.

1324016 LANGUAGE CHANGES II (Elective)

In this course, language change and language loss are covered.

 

3rd YEAR

1326002 STRUCTURE OF TURKISH II (Compulsory)

In this course, categories of verbal inflection in Turkish, voice, tense, aspect, modality, sentence structure, simple and complex sentences, flexibility of word order, and information structure in Turkish, and basic concepts of information structure are the topics to be covered.

1326003 SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Compulsory)

In this course, after the introduction and exemplification of the basic concepts in sociolinguistics, the sociolinguistic properties of Turkish and English are analyzed partly through lecturing and discussions and partly through student research and presentations.

1326008 SEMANTICS II (Compulsory)

In this course, linguistic logic, a notation for simple propositions, connectives, truth values, word meaning, properties of predicates, and participant roles are dealt with.

1326018 SYNTAX II (Compulsory)

In this course, syntactic structures are covered.

1326011 CORPUS LINGUISTICS II (Elective)

In this course, the characteristics of corpus processing tools, frequency lists, keyword lists, reading concordance lines, pattern exploration, simple and complex query techniques, measurement of collocation and multi-word lists, and corpus-based analyses of lexis and discourse are the topics to be covered.

1326014 FIELDWORK IN LINGUISTICS II (Elective)

Doing fieldwork

1326019 MEDIA AND THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING (Elective)

Basic concepts of media and advertising language, attention-seeking devices, creativity in advertisements, the relationship of writer-reader-text, and intertextuality will be discussed, and advertisements will be analyzed from a linguistic point of view.

 

4th YEAR

1328006 GRADUATION STUDY II (Compulsory)

In this course, refining and specifying research topics and hypotheses, devising a research strategy, planning a thesis in more detail, data collection and analysis techniques, writing and refining the introduction and conclusion are the major topics to be covered.

1328024 LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY (Compulsory)

The analysis of language from a philosophical framework

1328025 LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING (Compulsory)

This course contains both the theoretical information and applications about the theoretical subfields of Applied linguistics, especially the ELT, such as teaching grammar, teaching vocabulary, teaching writing, and testing.

1328018 LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS (Elective)

In this course, the methods in typology and language universal studies, morphological typologies related to nominal and verbal categories, basic classifications in syntactic typology, and some aspects of semantic typologies are the topics to be covered.

1328020 COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (Elective)

In this course, the basic concepts of Cognitive Linguistics are compared and contrasted with Chomskyan Linguistics.

1328022 LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (Elective)

The course includes basic stages and theories of the language acquisition process. Related literature is discussed in class in terms of the acquisition theories and their application to the acquisition process of different language structures.

1328019 SEMIOTICS (Elective)

The main subjects of the course are the definition of signs, features of signs, the relationship between different signs, the paradigmatic and syntagmatic structure of signs, codes, rhetorical tropes, and textual interactions, followed by sample analyses that are selected to show how these terms should be used in a semiotic analysis.

1328023 NEUROLINGUISTICS (Elective)

In this course physiological features of human language are covered.

1328021 LEXICAL SEMANTICS (Elective)

In this course lexicon, meaning, components, and prototype, Conceptual Semantics, the Generative Lexicon, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, polysemy, homonymy, vagueness, synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy are covered.