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IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH-II

Course
ENGL032 - IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH-II
Department
School of Foreign Languages
Course Type
In-sessional English
Status
Required
Language
English
Credit
0
ECTS
0
T+P+L
6 + 0 + 0
Course Coordinator(s)
Instr. Rüya TALAB
Prerequisite
Keywords

Course Description

This course is the continuation of ENGL031. In this respect this course provides a further general revision on grammatical structures such as active and passive voice, adverbial clauses, and connectors to ensure that students are equipped with the required higher level of background knowledge to achieve academic reading and writing tasks successfully. Regarding writing skills students are introduced to sentence structures, basic components of paragraphs such as topic sentence, topic and controlling idea, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences. Students are expected to reflect the acquired knowledge by writing a short descriptive paragraph about themselves. This course also provides the opportunity to improve students’ reading skills through a variety of higher level reading passages.

IN-SESSIONAL ENGLISH-II

Evaluation Tools (Active Term)

Item Type Weight (%)
MIDTERM Midterm 30
FINAL Final 40
ASSIGNMENT Assignment 30
Total 100

Course outcomes

  1. 01 The students will be able to learn
  2. 02 Acquiring an introductory knowledge of Turkish
  3. 03 Acquiring skills to communicate with his/her friends
  4. 04 Ability to use Turkish in shopping, travel and other daily needs

Course Syllabus

Week Topic
Week 1 Introduction to the course + UNIT 5 (1 Focus on the Topic + 2 Focus on Reading – Reading One: Is Blue Always Blue? + identifying main idea of a reading text)
Week 2 UNIT 5 (Identifying a General Abstract Idea from a Single Concrete Example + Reading Two: The Dress that Almost Broke the Internet + Scanning for Information)
Week 3 UNIT 5 (3 Focus on Writing: Vocabulary + Grammar for Writing – using linking verbs + using descriptive adjectives + Structure of a Paragraph (Topic Sentence, Supporting Sentences and a Concluding Sentence) + Writing a Personal Experience Paragraph)
Week 4 UNIT 6 (1 Focus on the Topic + 2 Focus on Reading – Reading One: What is a Hero? + Inferring Meaning from Metaphors)
Week 5 UNIT 6 (Reading Two: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Creating an Outline to Take Notes + The Use of the Present Tense in a Story About the Past)
Week 6 UNIT 6 (3 Focus on Writing: Vocabulary + Grammar for Writing – Time Clauses in the Present Tense)
Week 7 MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS
Week 8 MIDTERM EXAMINATIONS
Week 9 UNIT 6 (3 Focus on Writing: Writing a One-Paragraph Story)
Week 10 UNIT 7 (1 Focus on the Topic + 2 Focus on Reading – Reading One: Leech + How to Answer True and False Statements )
Week 11 UNIT 7 (Reading Two: Gross Medicine + Taking Double Entry Notes)
Week 12 UNIT 7 (3 Focus on Writing: Vocabulary + Grammar for Writing: Adverbs of Manner + Writing a Narrative Paragraph)
Week 13 UNIT 8 (1 Focus on the Topic + 2 Focus on Reading – Reading One: Will Indigenous Culture Survive? + Reading Two: Touring Penan Country + Identifying the Purpose of Quoted Spech)
Week 14 UNIT 8 (3 Focus on Writing: Vocabulary + Grammar for Writing: Will and Be Going To to Express Predictions and Future Plans + Writing a Narrative Paragraph)
Week 15 FINAL EXAMINATIONS

Reference Books & Course Materials

  1. 01 Haugnes, N. & Maher, B. (2020). NorthStar: Reading & Writing Level 2, Fifth Edition, Pearson.

Learning Outcomes

  1. L01 By the end of the course students will be able to recognize basic components of a paragraph such as topic sentence, topic, controlling idea, supporting sentences etc.
  2. L02 extend their reading skills through a variety of higher level reading passages.
  3. L03 analyze various reading passages by employing necessary reading techniques such as skimming, scanning, inferring and etc.
  4. L04 reflect the acquired knowledge by writing a short descriptive paragraph about themselves.

Program Outcomes

  1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
  2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
  3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
  4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
  5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
  6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
  7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
  8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
  9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
  10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
  11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
  12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

Po-Lo Matrix

LO P01 P02 P03 P04 P05 P06 P07 P08 P09 P10 P11 P12 Average
L01 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L02 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L03 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
L04 - - - - - - - - - - - - -