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IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE-II

Course
ENGL034 - IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE-II
Department
School of Foreign Languages
Course Type
In-sessional English
Status
Required
Language
English
Credit
0
ECTS
0
T+P+L
4 + 0 + 0
Course Coordinator(s)
Sr. Instr. Feryal VARANOĞULLARI
Prerequisite
Keywords

Course Description

This course is the continuation of ENGL033 with more detailed information. Students will be able to acquire their academic reading skills such as finding the main idea, skimming, scanning, understanding the text by reading comprehension and answering relevant questions, inferring meaning by ordering information, finding suffixes and similar meanings, guessing meaning from texts, recognizing parts of speech in sentence structures and identifying text organization through matching pieces of information. In effective written skills aims to develop critical thinking, which enables students respond to ideas in a well-organized written format. They identify process paragraphs, narrative paragraphs and opinion paragraphs. The writing goals are divided into two: rhetorical focus, language and grammar focus.

IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE-II

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

Item Type Weight (%)
Mid-term Examination Midterm 30
Final Examination Final 40
Assignments Assignment 30
Total 100

Course outcomes

  1. 01 1- apply necessary reading strategies which are skimming and scanning, and understanding the reading texts.
  2. 02 2- differenciate the main ideas of the reading texts and statements from the supporting details.
  3. 03 3- identify three sections of essay writing. (The sentence and the paragraph, Descriptive Paragraphs, Example Paragraphs)

Course Syllabus

Week Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course NS: Unit 5/ Reading one- Main Idea and details, make inference: inferring when humour is used
Week 2 NS: Unit 5/ Reading two – Taking notes with bullets, Predicting content from titles and subheadings
Week 3 NS: Unit 5/ Focus on writing: A Cover letter, Use future time clauses
Week 4 NS: Unit 6/ Reading one- Make inferences: inferring probability
Week 5 NS: Unit 6/Reading two- Taking notes on supporting details, use content clues to understand vocabulary
Week 6 NS: Unit 6/ Focus on writing: Vocabulary, Grammar for writing: because and even though
Week 7 NS: Unit 6/ Focus on writing: Opinion essay, Effective and supporting details
Week 8 Midterm Examination (09-20 November 2026)
Week 9 Midterm Examination (09-20 November 2026)
Week 10 NS: Unit 7/ Reading one, Infer both sides of a debate
Week 11 NS: Unit 7/ Reading two, take notes with an outline, Identify key information in charts
Week 12 NS: Unit 7/ Focus on writing, Vocabulary +Adverb Clauses of Concession, Writing an opinion essay, Sentence Variety
Week 13 NS: Unit 8/ Reading one- Infer Purpose, Taking notes with symbols, Identifying cohesive devices of contrast
Week 14 NS: Unit 8/ Focus on writing- Vocabulary + Future modals, writing a cause-and-effect essay, Conjunctions and Transitions to show cause and effect
Week 15 Final Examination (04-15 January 2027)

Reference Books & Course Materials

  1. 01 English, A. K. & English, M. L. NorthStar 3. Reading & Writing. 5th Ed. Pearson, 2020

Learning Outcomes

  1. L01 1- apply necessary reading strategies which are skimming and scanning, and understanding the reading texts.
  2. L02 2- differenciate the main ideas of the reading texts and statements from the supporting details.
  3. L03 3- identify three sections of essay writing. (The sentence and the paragraph, Descriptive Paragraphs, Example Paragraphs)

Program Outcomes

  1. P01 Apply data science principles and techniques to challenges in real life situations, and effectively communicate their solutions.
  2. P02 Identify and implement data analysis methodologies based on theoretical ideas, ethical code, and in-depth knowledge of the underlying data.
  3. P03 Analyze the guiding concepts and assessment procedures for information analysis in real-life applications.
  4. P04 Design and apply relevant data analysis models to find obscure solutions to business-related problems.
  5. P05 Utilize modern computing techniques to handle real-world problems characterized by massive amounts of data, such as parallel and distributed computing and machine learning.
  6. P06 Configure and administer the software tools required to efficiently produce usable information from any size of structured and unstructured datasets.
  7. P07 Administer or manage data science tools and techniques to organize and complete projects aimed at gaining useful insight from complex data.
  8. P08 Think critically and imaginatively, conceiving real-world issues from several angles, and work well in a variety of teams to solve issues cooperatively.
  9. P09 Be able to effectively integrate data‐based solutions into the user environment and help non-technical professionals in exploring, visualizing, and using these solutions
  10. P10 Understand their obligations under professional and ethical standards in relation to matters like data ownership and citation, data security and sensitivity and the privacy implications of data analysis.

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - - -