COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YDI 6039 SOCIOLINGUISTICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

English Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR YEŞIM BEKTAŞ ÇETINKAYA

Offered to

English Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

To raise the awareness of graduate students regarding the interconnected nature of language and society through discussing the issues such as language variation, role of culture and language planning

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. to identify the connection between language and society
2   2. to describe language variation
3   3. to explain the relation between language and culture
4   4. to analyze the language use in society

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: Language and Society
2 Language dialects and variation
3 Speech communities
4 Multilingual societies
5 Contact languages
6 Language variation
7 Language variation studies
8 Language variation and change
9 Ethnographic approaches in sociolinguistics
10 Pragmatics
11 Discourse analysis
12 Language and Gender
13 Sociolinguistics and education
14 Language policy and planning
15 Language policy and planning

Recomended or Required Reading

Wardhaugh, R. & Fuller, J.M. (2015) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell
Bell, A. (2013) The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell
Journal of Sociolinguistics, American Speech

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, discussion, reading, doing projects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yesim.cetinkaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 4 6 24
Preparing presentations 1 14 14
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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