Admission requirements
Beginners' Turkish or equivalent.
Description
Pre-Intermediate Turkish is designed for students who are interested in improving their basic Turkish skills and have A1 level previous knowledge of Turkish grammar and vocabulary. Through an integrated and communicative approach, it emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar without underestimating the basic oral communication skills and micro-sociolinguistic rules of conversation in Turkish.
Course objectives
Reading activities provide early access to naturally-occurring language tailored for students’ needs and interests. By the end of the semester, students will have developed a pre-intermediate to intermediate proficiency level of Turkish grammar and vocabulary as well as pre-intermediate communication skills (A2), and will have become ready to take the next level (B1).
Grammar: By the end of the course, students will have learned to accurately use compound tenses, nominalizations, adverbial clauses, nominalizations, gerunds and converbs, reflexive and reciprocal, subordination, conditionals and relative clauses.
Vocabulary and use: Students will continue building on their existing vocabulary through communicative activities as well as texts. New vocabulary will include words related with family, careers, hobbies, history, story-telling, world cultures, geography, the media, health and travel.
Reading: Students will become able to find specific information in everyday texts, understand short and simple letters, follow directions and understand the course of events in narrative style.
Writing: By the end of the course, students will be able to write short descriptions of events and states, and personal letters and emails.
Spoken interaction: We will emphasize spoken interaction since language is primarily for interacting with people. By the end of the course, students will be able to interact with other speakers of Turkish for simple and routine tasks.
Listening: By the end of the course, students will be able to recognize high-frequency words and phrases, understand the main point in spoken form that is short and clear and of immediate relevance.
Speaking: By the end of the second block, students will have a pre-intermediate level of spoken production, and will become able to talk about events with reference to past, present and future, narrate events and stories in more precise and meaningful ways.
| European Common Framework goals after fulfilling Pre-Intermediate Turkish and Turkish through Media | |
|---|---|
| Reading | A2 |
| Writing | A2 |
| Listening | A2 |
| Speaking | A2 |
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar.
Assessment method
Student performance in this course will be based on the following distribution:
| Partial Assessment | Points | Weighing |
|---|---|---|
| Quizzes | 4 × 6 | 24% |
| Homework assignments | 12 × 3 | 36% |
| Midterm Exam | 1 x 15 | 15% |
| Final Exam | 25 | 25% |
| Total | 100% |
Resit
Resit is only available for the final exam.
Reading list
A Student Grammar of Turkish (Nihan Ketrez, 2012, Cambridge University Press)
We will be using a coursepack with number of materials that include various texts, grammar and vocabulary exercises, reading activities based on authentic texts, writing activities, listening activities, guidelines for spoken interaction in the classrooom. It will be announced/ provided by the instructor.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the information bar on the right.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office Herta Mohr
Remarks
Please note that the additional course information is an integral part of this course description.