GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED LANGUAGE SKILLS I/ENG-401
Course Title: ADVANCED LANGUAGE SKILLS I
Credits 4 ECTS 3
Course Semester 7 Type of The Course Compulsory
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  English
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Will be able to report on academic topics.
Will be able to prepare oral presentations on academic topics and present them with effective language skills.
Will be able to do research on their own fields and share the findings of this research both written and verbally.
Students will be able to recognize the difference between the real and the ideas in academic English verbal and written texts.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Academic English reading text study (Preview, Reading for detailed information, Reading for main idea)
2. Week  Academic English reading text study II (Finding implied information in the text, Understanding text using various strategies and techniques)
3. Week  Academic English listening text study (Listening for the main idea, Listening for detailed information, Distinguishing the cause-effect relationship i
4. Week  Academic English listening text study II (Finding implied information in the text)
5. Week  Working with paragraph types (Descriptive Paragraph, Narrative Paragraph)
6. Week  Study on paragraph types II (Expository Paragraph, Persuasive Paragraph)
7. Week  To participate in discussions and discussions about a topic (Asking for clarification, Asking questions, debating)
8. Week  Making short presentations on specific topics
9. Week  MIDTERM EXAM-Academic English reading text study III
10. Week  Academic English reading text study III (Summarizing outline of text, Understanding cause-and-effect relationship in a text, Understanding unknown wor
11. Week  Academic English listening text study III (To be able to distinguish the cause-effect relationship in a text, summarize the outline of the text)
12. Week  Working with paragraph types III (Cause & Effect Paragraph, Reaction Paragraph)
13. Week  Taking pictures / pictures / tables / figures, using graphic editors, taking notes
14. Week  STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
15. Week  Final Exam
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
25
 Assignment
1
10
 Application
0
0
 Projects
1
10
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
3
15
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
13
4
52
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
2
2
4
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
1
1
1
 Preparing a Presentation
2
2
4
 Presentation
1
4
4
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
2
2
4
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
3
2
6
 Other (should be emphasized)
3
1
3
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
78
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.12
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To train individuals who are contemporary, entrepreneur and have unique and aesthetic values, self-confidence and capable of independent decision-making.X
2To give good education in the program fields as algebra, geometry, applied mathematics, topology and analysis in order to be equipped with enough mathematics.
3To teach mathematical thinking methods in order to improve the ability to express mathematics both orally and in writing.X
4To train individuals who are knowledgeable about the history of mathematics and the production of scientific knowledge and can follow developments in these disciplines.X
5To provide necessary equipments to take positions such areas as banking, finance, econometrics, and actuarial.
6To acquire ability to solve problems encountered in real life by means of mathematical modeling using mathematical methods.
7To provide ability to do necessary resource researches in the areas of mathematics and to use accessed information.X
8To give appropriate training in such areas as in computer programming and creating algorithms in order to take parts in developing IT sector.
9To gain substructure to be able to study at graduate level.X
10To enable the student to gain the ability of relating mathematics with the other sciences.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Yabancı Diller Yüksekokulu Öğretim Elemanları )
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
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 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ydyo@gazi.edu.tr)