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Coordinator: Gülşah Taşkın

Instructors: Fatma Akman, Dr. Özlem Polat Atan, Dr. Esra Dicle Başbuğ, Dr. Hülya Bulut, Kabil Demirkıran, Semiha Şentürk, Zuhal İbidan*, Dr. Deniz Altan Küçük*, İbrahim Topal*

^* Part-time

The courses, taking into consideration the fact that education is carried out in English, are organized in such a way that the students develop a consciousness of and an interest in Turkish language, which for most of them is their mother tongue. In addition to grammatical and linguistic knowledge, poems, stories, novels and essays written by the Turkish writers who use the language the most skillfully are selected every semester. Besides, some panels and conferences are held, related to the books selected.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

TK 221 Turkish for Native Speakers I (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3

(Türkçe I)                                                            

Language theories, the birth of languages and language-culture relationship. The classification of languages, with special emphasis on the Ural-Altaic language family, to which the Turkish language belongs. The study of four major areas of linguistics: phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics. The phonetic structure of Turkish; word and sentence structure. Analysis of selected poems, essays and works of fiction.

TK 222 Turkish for Native Speakers II (2+0+0) 2 ECTS 3

(Türkçe II)                                                         

Practice and training in written Turkish for the purposes of exposition, description, narration and discussion. Fundamental rules, examples of punctuation and dictation. Styles of writing and composition; scientific and scholarly writing, reports and essays. The work of classical and contemporary Turkish writers. Practice in public speaking and argumentation techniques.

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