GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
APPLIED ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY/1640009
Course Title: APPLIED ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY
Credits 3 ECTS 8
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  English
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will increase their mastery of English vocabulary and their origins, meanings, and domains of use.
Students will be able to develop skills of applying theoretical principles in practice (translation) and basic skills of practical work in further ind
Students will have an awareness of both internal structure and of systematic relationships exist in the English words.
Students will have an understanding of the history (etymology) of major periods of vocabulary and their effect on the modern lexicon of English langua
Students will have an understanding of word meaning (lexical semantics), types of meaning (cognitive, stylistic, affective, connotational, grammatical
Students will have an understanding of the sound system (phonology) and sound change of English lexicon.
Students will have an understanding of regional variations and social variations of English vocabulary.
Students will be able to interpret newly encountered words with the help of the knowledge about the roots and affixes that recurrently appear in Engli
Students will develop an awareness of the relationship between the study of words and the culture and history of the English nation.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction to “Lexicology” as part of lexical competence.
2. Week  Dictionaries of English.
3. Week  Varieties of English.
4. Week  The Internal Structure Of Words • Word-Formation, Features, and Componential Analysis • Polysemy, Lexical Entries, and Sememes • Morphological S
5. Week  The Semantic Structure of Words: Componential Analysis and Semantic Features • Semantic Decomposition and its Justification • Typology of Feature
6. Week  The Structure Of The Lexicon • Relations between Words • Units, Classes, and Relations • Lexical Entry and Lexical Unit • Word Classes and Sema
7. Week  Lexical Relations, Sense-Relations, and Lexical Semantics • Synonymy • Hyponymy and Incompatibility • Complementarity, Antonymy, and Conversen
8. Week  Mid-term
9. Week  The Function of Words • Co-Text, Context, and the Mental Lexicon • Words in Context • The Functions of Word-Formation in Texts • Monosemizati
10. Week  Semantics • Denotation and Reference • Other Kinds of Meaning • Connotations and Markedness • Morpheme, Word, Lexeme • The Classification of
11. Week  Student presentations
12. Week  Student presentations
13. Week  Student presentations
14. Week  Student presentations
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
1
0
 Quiz
0
60
 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
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
12
3
36
 Searching in Internet and Library
10
3
30
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
8
3
24
 Presentation
4
3
12
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
3
3
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
3
6
 Other (should be emphasized)
16
3
48
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
201
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
8.04
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
8
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
11 improve and deepentheir knowledge in the English Language Teaching field at expert level based on Bachelor’s degree competenciesX
22 understand the interaction between the disciplines (Linguistics, Educational Sciences, Culture and Literature) related to the fieldX
33 use the theoretical and applied knowledge that he/she acquire in the English Language Teaching fieldat expert levelX
44 develop new knowledge combining the knowledge from the related disciplines and the knowledge in the ELT fieldX
55 analyze the problems in the field using scientific research methodsX
66 define a problem in the ELT fieldX
77 develop suggestions for the problems in the fieldX
88 solve problemsX
99 evaluate solution results in terms of quality processesX
1010 develop new approaches and methods by taking responsibility in complex situations encountered in practice of the ELTX
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assist. Prof. Dr. Kadriye Dilek Akpınar)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/kadriyedilek)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (kadriyedilek@gazi.edu.tr)