Elementary Turkish B is designed for students who can already read and understand short paragraphs and also write simple short sentences in present and past. The emphasis in this course, particularly those for Elementary Turkish, will be on drills, exercises and situational practice. All the lessons include exercises, reading passages and listening to tape. Students are encouraged to read some articles and books on Turkish Language and Culture written in English.

Students are required to attend language laboratory sessions and listen to the recordings on the WebCT (one hour a week) and hand in their Work Book for correction.

At the end of this course students will be able to write fairly simple short sentences in present, past and future tenses and read passages of moderate length.

GENERIC SKILLS

This course aims to cover Turkish alphabet, spelling and pronunciation as well as vowel harmony. No direct emphasis will be put on teaching grammar, but the use of simple verb tenses in present, past and future as well as other grammatical features will be introduced with sentences. The course will include simple and comprehensive reading passages.

And also aims:

• To further develop students' understanding of Turkish language and culture through reading passages in the prescribed text book.
• To develop students Turkish language skills (spelling, pronunciation vowel harmony as well as the use of verbs with gerunds in present, past and future tenses.)
• To enable students to read very simple comprehensive passages in Turkish and construct simple sentences.

Attendance (10%)

Class participation (10%)

Fortnightly assignments (30%)

Final examination (including oral component) (50%).

Students are required to attend language laboratory sessions and listen to the recordings on the WebCT (one hour a week) and hand in their Work Book for correction.

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

Elementary Turkish A

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

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

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.