To provide students with a detailed overview of the various fields of language sciences, beyond general linguistics, emphasizing the diversity of theories and methodologies.
To increase the knowledge of fields within applied linguistics by highlighting their diversity.
To discuss the growing role of interdisciplinarity in the social sciences in recent years, and thus within the language sciences.
To enable students to acquire a richer theoretical and methodological understanding of linguistics.
Theoretical and practical course content is designed to provide a detailed explanation of various fields within the language sciences, such as psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language acquisition, generative linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology; to highlight their practical implications; and to reinforce students’ knowledge through oral presentations and other assignments.
By drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, the aim is to highlight the complementary nature of the fields mentioned above and to understand how research in this area enables us to describe and analyze the concepts of language.
Lecture notes, slides, articles, books, oral presentations, and hands-on survey research.
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to sociolinguistics |
| 2 | Labov and language insecurity |
| 3 | Subsrate and superstrate |
| 4 | Methodology |
| 5 | Plurilinguism |
| 6 | Diglossie |
| 7 | Epilinguistic discourse |
| 8 | Language Ideologies |
| 9 | Introduction to typology |
| 10 | Cognitif fonctionning of time and space |
| 11 | Morphological diversity of languages and their fonctionning |
| 12 | Linguistic change |
| 13 | Language contact |
| 14 | Limits of language families |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 2 | 100 |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 1 | 50 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
| Make-up | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 50 |
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Acquire competence in written French C1 | X | ||||
| 2 | Acquisition of speaking proficiency in French at level C1 | X | ||||
| 3 | Being able to translate from French to Turkish at all levels of language. | X | ||||
| 4 | Being able to translate from Turkish to French at all levels of language. | X | ||||
| 5 | Being able to analyze texts of various kinds and levels. | X | ||||
| 6 | Being able to make cross-cultural studies. | X | ||||
| 7 | To teach French literature. | X | ||||
| 8 | Being able to descriptions of languages starting with the contemporary linguistic theories. | X | ||||
| 9 | Being able to teach French as a foreign language. | X | ||||
| 10 | Having acquired the Spanish language and literature. | X | ||||
| Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Hours | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| Working Hours out of Class | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Examinations (including preparation) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 1 | 33 | 33 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Make-up | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yıl Sonu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hazırlık Yıl Sonu | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hazırlık Bütünleme | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 5.00 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 5 | ||