COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL READING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRK 5003 CRITICAL READING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Turkish Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CANER KERIMOĞLU

Offered to

Turkish Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course aims to develop the students' critical thinking and critical reading skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To develop critical thinking and critical reading skills
2   Apply critical thinking strategies
3   To recognize text types and rhetorical features
4   Applying reasoning strategies
5   To make critical reading practices

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 the scope and definition of critical thinking
2 critical thinking strategies
3 critical thinking strategies
4 reading and comprehension
5 reading and comprehension
6 reading approaches
7 reading approaches
8 general repeat, evaluation, midterm axam
9 recognizing text types and rhetorical features
10 recognizing text types and rhetorical features
11 determining reasoning strategies
12 determining reasoning strategies
13 practice
14 practice
15 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Özüdoğru, M. (2016). Eleştirel söylemden eleştirel okumaya. Ankara: Anı.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

caner.kerimoglu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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