TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Instructor Cemre Mimoza Bartu Esen
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) be aware of the English language sounds and the differences between the two sound systems. 2) pronouns English sounds better and develop their listening skills. 3) be aware of the possible sound errors and learn ways to solve them
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	This course aims to develop students' listening and pronunciation skills while gaining confidence in communicating in English. To develop students' receptive listening skills, it employs authentic listening materials (i.e. academic and natural-setting samples) produced by diverse communities of practice to be analyzed as communication-oriented classroom activities. Starting from basic listening and phonetic skills such as discriminating minimal pairs and formulating phonetic transcriptions of problematic sounds focused in class, the course will focus on higher level listening skills and strategies such as note-taking, predicting, extracting specific and detailed information, guessing meaning from context, and getting the gist through content-based activities. Students will be provided with the fundamentals of listening and phonetics namely vowels, consonants, stress in words, rhythm and intonation as well as the usage of phonetic alphabet for learning and production purposes. Throughout the course, students will also be exposed to aural authentic listening materials such as interviews, movies, songs, lectures, TV shows and news broadcasts. This course also aims to equip student teachers with a strong sensitivity towards different accents of English language being spoken around the world. Collaborative learning through group and pair work will be encouraged.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Accents (1 ): Varieties of English, English as an international language 3rd Week Consonant clusters 4th Week Stress in words and phrases 5th Week Stressed and unstressed syllables 6th Week Foreign words 7th Week Pronunciation in conversation: Features of fluent speech 8th Week Midterm Exam Week 9th Week Organising information in conversation 10th Week Intonation in telling, asking and answering 11th Week Intonation in telling, asking and answering 12th Week Intonation in managing conversation 13th Week Pronunciation in formal settings 14th Week Pronunciation in formal settings
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Hewings, M. (2007). English Pronunciation in Use Advanced Book with Answers, 5 Audio CDs and CD-ROM. Cambridge University Press.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Practice,Project,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Midterm Exam: %30 Final Exam: %40 Presentation: %30
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No