GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED LANGUAGE SKILLS I/ENG401
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
Report on academic issues.
Prepare oral presentations about academic subjects and present them with effective language skills.
Conduct research in their own fields and share the findings of this research both verbally and in writing.
Recognize the distinction between reality and opinion in academic English verbal and written texts.
Use basic techniques and skills such as providing fluent transitions between the parts that make up the presentation and using body language effectively
 -- 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 the main idea)
2. Week  Academic English reading text study II (Finding the information implied in the text, Understanding the text using various strategies and technique
3. Week  Academic English listening study (Listening to the main the idea, Listening to detailed information, To distinguish between cause and effect in a
4. Week  Academic English listening study II (Finding the information implied in the text)
5. Week  Study on paragraph types (Descriptive Paragraph, Narrative Paragraph)
6. Week  Study on paragraph types II (Expository Paragraph, Persuasive Paragraph)
7. Week  Discussion and conversation on a topic (Expressing an opinion, Asking for clarification, Asking questions, debating)
8. Week  Making short presentations on specific topics (Using certain strategies, preparing effective note cards)
9. Week  MIDTERM EXAM- Academic English reading text study III
10. Week  Academic English reading text study III (Summarizing the outlines of the text, Understanding the cause-effect relationship in a text, Understand
11. Week  Academic English listening text study III (To be able to distinguish the cause-effect relationship in a text, summarize the outlines of the text
12. Week  Study on paragraph types III (Cause & Effect Paragraph, Reaction Paragraph)
13. Week  Speaking on Photographs / Pictures / Tables / Figures, Using graphic editors, Note taking techniques
14. Week  STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
15. Week  
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  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- 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
13
1
13
 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
0
0
0
 Other (should be emphasized)
3
1
3
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
85
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.4
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To be able to evaluate the case in terms of physics.
2Improving experimental practicality.
3To earn the ability of problem solving and analysis.
4Analyzing current problems with physical thought.
5To learn the relationship between the courses taught in the other departments and to learn to use these features.
6To develop the ability to connect physics and mathematics and to model natural phenomena.
7Informing the audience correctly in an milieu where physics-related events are discussed.
8To learn how to use the acquired knowledge in the development of society.
9To have a competing personality to compare the acquired knowledge with those given in similar institutions and to go further.
10To have a self-confident personality in the international scientific arena.
11To have the ability to follow every development related to his / her profession and to use the acquired knowledge.
12To educate people who are aware that scientific work will never end and should always be studied.
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Lecturers of the School of Foreign Languages)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
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 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ydyo@gazi.edu.tr)