TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	2
SEMESTER	Fourth Term (Spring)
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) gain knowledge about morphology, dependent and independent morphemes, pidgins, inflection and derivation morphemes, morphological analysis, analysis of hierarchical internal structures of words 2) explain the word categories, phrases, clauses, sentence structures, transformational generative grammar, minimalist program, pragmatics 3) discuss the issues such as texuality criteria, cohesion elements, discourse relation, functions, discourse structure, theoretical discourse
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	Linguistics I
COURSE DEFINITION	Error analysis of the outputs of language learners, case studies and contrastive analysis of L1 and L2, concepts about language nature, structure and use, morphology, bound and free morphemes, blends, inflectional and derivational morphemes, morphological analysis, morphological language typology, analysis of hierarchical deep structure, morphophonemic variants, syntax, phrases, clauses and sentence structure, transformational generative grammar, government and binding, minimalist program, constituent structure and role; pragmatics, reference, implicature, conversational maxims, speech acts and politeness, sociolinguistics, accent, register, style, standards of textuality, cohesive devices, discourse connections, functions, discourse situation, institutional discourse.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Morphology 3rd Week Morphology 4th Week Syntax 5th Week Syntax 6th Week Syntax 7th Week Pragmatics 8th Week Midterm 9th Week Pragmatics 10th Week Discourse 11th Week Discourse 12th Week Sociolinguistics 13th Week Sociolinguistics 14th Week Revision 15th Week
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	Discussion,Lecture,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