COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTIVE VII (LANGUAGE AND CULTURE)

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ADE 4019 ELECTIVE VII (LANGUAGE AND CULTURE) ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR KUTHAN KAHRAMANTÜRK

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is the dialectical relationship between language and culture; examining the cultural dimensions and structure of language, and creating awareness of cultural richness.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   They can learn to use the language beautifully and correctly.
2   They can understand the cultural importance of a foreign language
3   They know the need for a foreign language for intercultural dialogue
4   They can perceive the impact of culture on language and speech
5   They understand the close relationship between people and language, language and thought, language and culture.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Language and Culture
2 Concept and Theory of Culture
3 The National Language and Foreign Language in the globalization process
4 The effect of culture on language and speech
5 Contemporary Issues in Turkish
6 Foreign words, Anglicism and dialects in the language
7 Misunderstandings. Types of conflict in a literary dialogue
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Human and Language
10 Language and Reality
11 Language and Thought
12 The logic of the language
13 Humboldt and the concept of worldview in language
14 Humboldt and the concept of worldview in language
15 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Altmayer, Claus (2005). Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung in Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Acht Thesen zu ihrer Konzeption und zukünftigen Entwicklung. "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" 42, 3.3: 154-160.

Altmayer, Claus (1997). Zum Kulturbegriff des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache. "Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen
Fremdsprachenunterricht" [Online] 2, 2: 1-23.
Bollenbeck, Georg (1996). Bildung und Kultur. Glanz und Elend eines deutschen Deutungsmusters. Frankfurt a.M.
Ehlich, Konrad (1996). Interkulturelle Kommunikation. In: Hans Goebl/Peter H. Nelde/Zden k
Star / Wolfgang Wölck. Kontaktlinguistik. Contact Linguistics. Linguistique de contact. Berlin/New York: 920-931.
Fix, Ulla/Habscheid, Stephan/Klein, Josef (2001). Zur Kulturspezifik von Textsorten. Tübingen.

Galtung, Johann (1985). Struktur, Kultur und intellektueller Stil. In: Alois Wierlacher (Hg.). Das Fremde und das Eigene.
München: 151-193.
Grossklaus, Götz (1985). Kultursemiotischer Versuch zum Fremdsprechen. In: Alois Wierlacher (Hg.). Das Fremde und das Eigene. Prolegomena zu einer interlulturellen Germanistik. München: 391-412.

House, Juliana (1998). Kontrastive Pragmatik und interkulturelle Kompetenz im Fremdsprachen-unterricht. In: Klaus-Dieter
Baumann/ Hartwig Kalverkämper (Hg.). Kontrast und Äquivalenz. Beiträge zu Sprachvergleich und Übersetzung. Tübingen: 63-88.
Humboldt, Wilhelm von: [1836] 1998: Ueber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluß auf die
geistige Entwickelung des Menschengeschlechts. In: Di Cesare, Donatella (Hg.), Wilhelm von Humboldt: Über die
Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluß auf die geistige Entwicklung des
Menschengeschlechts. Pp. 133-446. Paderborn etc.: Schöningh.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, oral presentation, multimedia presentation

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

Midterm Exam: %40
Final Exam: %60

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kuthan.kturk@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 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.13343424421
LO.23343524421
LO.3334352441
LO.4353241441
LO.5

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