TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	2
SEMESTER	Third Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) explain the issues such as language components, linguistic competence and performance, sub-branches of linguistics, language universals, linguistic creativity, linguistic arbitrariness, sign languages, artificial languages, language and brain, lateralization and handedness, language evolution, language use and language disorders 2) gain knowledge about the issues such as phonology, acoustics, articulation, speech organs, phoneme, vowels and consonants, IPA, assimilation, dissimilation, suprasegmentals, stress and intonation 3) define semantics, analysis of semantic components, semantic relations, meaning and reference, co-occurrence
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	Main concepts of linguistic analysis, raising the awareness of students regarding student errors, comparative linguistic analysis of texts both in native and target language to better understand the nature, structure and use of language, components of language as a system, linguistic competence and pragmatics, sub-categories of linguistics, types of linguistics, universal features of language, linguistic creativity, linguistic arbitrariness, sign-language, artificial languages and communication between living things, mental lexicon and language, lateralization and handedness, the evolution of language, human language processing models, research on language use and language disorders (For example; dichotic listening test, split brain, WADA test), phonetics, acoustic, auditory and articulatory phonetics, speech organs, phoneme, consonant and vowels, international phonetic alphabet , diphthongs, triphthongs, diction; the place and manner of articulation, phonetics, samples of sounds, assimilation, dissimilation, consonant clusters, consonants, suprasegmental intonation and tone, semantics, analysis of components of meaning, semantic relation, meaning and reference, collocations.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Language and Linguistics 3rd Week Linguistic concepts 4th Week Design features of Language 5th Week Language Disorders 6th Week Language Universals 7th Week Artificial Languages 8th Week Midterm Exam 9th Week Phonetics 10th Week Phonetics 11th Week Phonology 12th Week Phonology 13th Week Semantics 14th Week Semantics
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Akmajian, A. And R.A. Demers, A.K. Farmer, R.M. Harnish. 1997. An Introduction to Language and Communication. USA:The MIT Press. Benham, B. 1996. Studying Linguistics: A workbook. AEIN Publication. Fromkin, V. And R. Rodman. 1988. An Introduction to Language. 4th Ed. USA: Holt, Rinehart, Winston. Hudson, G. 2000. Essential Introductory Linguistics. UK: Blackwell. Liles, B. 1975. An Introduction to Linguistics. USA: Prentice-Hall. McManis, C. And D. Stollenwerk, Z. Zheng-Sheng. 1987. Language Files. USA: Advocate Publishing Group. Week Tercanlıoğlu, L. 1999. Linguistics for TEFL students. Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayınları. Todd, L. 1987. An Introduction to Linguistics. Singapore: Longman. Trask, R.L. 1999. Language: The Basics. 2nd Ed. GB: Routledge. Yule, George. 1996. The Study of Language. 2nd Ed. GB: Cambridge.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Case Study
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 50 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No