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TURK1002 Elementary Turkish B

First Year Course

Offered By Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies
Academic Career Undergraduate
Course Subject Turkish
Offered in Second Semester, 2009 and Second Semester, 2010
Unit Value 6 units
Course Description

The course will cover Turkish alphabet, spelling and pronunciation as well as vowel harmony. No direct emphasis will be put on grammar, but the use of simple verb tense and other grammatical features will be introduced within sentences. The course will include simple and comprehensive reading passages.

Indicative Assessment

Attendance and class participation (20%), assignments (30%), final examination (including oral component) (50%).

Workload

Four hours of lectures per week (may include language laboratory sessions)

Areas of Interest Asian Languages
Requisite Statement

Elementary Turkish A

Prescribed Texts

Tömer HITIT: Yabancılar icin Türkçe 1, Ankara: Ankara University Press, 2002

Text book with cassettes will be available from the Uni bookshop.

Preliminary Reading

G.L. Lewis, Turkish Grammar, OUP, 2001.
Lewis V. Thomas, Elementary Turkish, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967.
Bengisu Rona, Turkish in Three Months, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Hugo, 1989.

Majors/Specialisations Turkish
Academic Contact Dr. M. Mehdi Ilhan

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