COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRK 5002 ACQUISITION OF LANGUAGE 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

Discussion of language acquisition theories and examination of the work for the process of acquisition of Turkish as their mother tongue.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   General information on the acquisition of Native comprehend.
2   Native language acquisition theories knows.
3   Native knows acquisition approaches.
4   Understands language development in children.
5   Understands the development of thinking in children.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General information on the acquisition of Native Language
2 Native language acquisition theories
3 Chomsky's approach on the acquisition of Native Language
4 Vygotsky's approach on the acquisition of Native Language
5 Piaget's approach on the acquisition of Native Language
6 Sapir and Whorf s approach on the acquisition of Native Language
7 Miller and McNeill approach on the acquisition of Native Language
8 General Repeat, Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9 The development of thought in children
10 theoretical approaches to the development of Language and Thought
11 Stages of language development of Turkish children
12 Phonetic development of Turkish children
13 Morphological development of Turkish children
14 Syntactic development of Turkish children
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Atasoy Z, Şenol S (1998) Iletişim bozuklukları. Psikiyatri Temel Kitabı, 2. Cilt, C Güleç, E Köroğlu (Ed), Hekimler Yayın Birliği, Ankara, s.1069-1078.
2. Paul R (1996) Disorder of Communication. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, M Lewis (Ed), 2. Baskı, USA, Williams and Wilkins, s.510-519.

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


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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