COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FIELD ELC. 8 (APPROACHES TO TEACHING PROGRAMMING)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TEK 1017 FIELD ELC. 8 (APPROACHES TO TEACHING PROGRAMMING) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR TIJEN AKADA

Offered to

Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education

Course Objective

The course aims to teach basic reading and writing skills for teacher candidates and to develop their academic English skills to enable them follow literature in their respective fields. The course also aims to enable teacher candidates to transfer new developments in their fields into their own classes.

The course focuses on developing reading and writing strategies of students which are the most commonly employed language skill in academic life out of the four language skills namely reading, writing, listening and speaking. At the end of this course, the students are expected to understand English texts regarding their fields, to recognize and employ related sentence structures and vocabulary as well as to write a paragraph in academic style.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Choose the most appropriate reading strategies (exp; skimming, scanning, referencing etc.),
2   2. Employ several cognitive strategies in order to understand the text (eg; guessing the meaning, using contextual clues etc.),
3   3. Analyze footnotes and graphichs,
4   4. Recognize rhetorical clues (eg listing, compare-contrast, cause and effect etc.),
5   5. Create grammatically correct sentences,
6   6. Spell sentences correctly and use correct punctuation,
7   7. Transfer the skills that they learned into new texts,
8   8. Write a parapraph.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Introduction to reading strategies (exp; skimming, scanning, referencing etc.),
2 2. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
3 3. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
4 4. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
5 5. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
6 6. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
7 7. Analyzing titles, analyzing questions and answering questions
8 8. Midterm Exam and reference
9 9. Guessi the meaning
10 10. Introduction to paragraph writing
11 11. Topic sentence writing
12 12. Different paragraph types
13 13. Paragraph writing
14 14. Paragraph writing
15 15. FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Reading materials will be privided by the instructor each week. The students will also be asked to bring reading materials to the class, and these texts will be analyzed in class. In addition, several Internet sites will be shared with the students.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, discussion, question-answer, group work

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

Homework, discussion, test

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students are expected to attend the classes and participate in the class discussions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

OFFICE: HAY 313
tijen.akada@deu.edu.tr
535 5608386

Office Hours

Monday 11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Practice (Reflection) 13 1 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 20 1 20
Preparation for final exam 20 1 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 94

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11555554333
LO.21555554333
LO.31555554333
LO.41555554333
LO.51555554333
LO.63333333333
LO.73333333333
LO.83333333333

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