COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTIVE IV (TEXTOLOGY)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ADE 2028 ELECTIVE IV (TEXTOLOGY) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YILDIZ AYDIN

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to enable students to produce properly constructed scientific texts by analysing scientific texts according to textual criteria.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Researches, collects, compares and evaluates the features of articles written on a specific topic
2   2. Gain a critical, analytical and comparative perspective in reading scientific texts
3   3. Gives information about the structural, content and stylistic features of scientific texts
4   4. Analyses scientific texts
5   5. compares and analyses criticism written in German and Turkish

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Different Text Types and Characteristics
2 2. Structure and form of the scientific text
3 3.Identification of the study area and limitation of the literature
4 4. Compilation of research and screening results
5 5. The importance of the draft and the notation and categorisation of ideas
6 6. Correlation between headings and subheadings
7 7. Logical correlation between input and output
8 8. Midterm
9 9. Overcoming writer's block: Freewriting and Clustering
10 10. Analysing articles in German
11 11. Examples of Articles
12 12. Comparing and analysing the articles
13 13.To produce a scientific text on a topic
14 14. General Evaluation
15 15. Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

- Busch-Lauer, I.-A. (2001): Fachtexte im Kontrast: eine linguistische Analyse zu den Kommunikationsbereichen Medizin und Linguistik. Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern: Peter Lang.
- Ehlich, K./ Steets, A. (Hg.) (2003): Wissenschaftlich schreiben-lehren und lernen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
- Piitulainen, Marja-Leena (2001): Zur Selbstbezeichnung in deutschen und finnischen Textsorten . In: Fix, U. (hrsg.): Zur Kulturspezifik von Textsorten. Tübingen: Staufenburg-Verlag.
- Schröder, H. (1998): Der Stil wissenschaftlichen Schreibens zwischen Disziplin, Kultur und Paradigma-Methodologische Anmerkungen zur interkulturellen Stilforschung . In: Stickel, Gerhard (hrsg.): Stilfragen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, S.150-180.
- Schröder, H. (1998): Ich sage das einmal ganz ungeschützt -Hedging und wissenschaftlicher Diskurs. In: Danneberg, L. / Niederhauser, J. (hrsg.): Darstellungsformen der Wissenschaften im Kontrast. Aspekte der Methodik, Theorie und Empirie. Tübingen: Narr, S. 263-276.
- (Hg.) Kruse/ Jakobs/ Ruhmann (1999): Schlüsselkometenz Schreiben: Konzepte, Methoden, Projekte für Schreibberatung und Schreibdidaktik an der Hochschule.- Neuwied, u.a.: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

lectures

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

The success of the student is determined by the grade to be obtained from the midterm and final exams of the course. Apart from this, there is no special evaluation criterion.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

Students should be prepared for the subjects specified in the course programme before coming to the lessons. Attendance to 70 % of the courses is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yildiz.aydin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 89

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.132522
LO.23252
LO.33252
LO.432542
LO.532552

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