TURK 1002: Introduction to Turkish Language

Ders Yılı\Dönem	2007-2008, Spring
Dersin Hocası:	Betül Tarhan
e-posta:	betultarhan@yahoo.com
Ders Günü:	Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Ofis Günü:	Monday, Wednesday 10:00-10:30 by appointment

Course Description: This course is designed for students who are interested in learning about other cultures and languages and who have previously taken Introduction to Turkish I or have already a command of basic Turkish. Throughout the course, the students will be presented with learning opportunities for increasing their pre-intermediate language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, the students will

· be able to comprehend sentences in Turkish.

· be able to speak lower intermediate level Turkish, producing sentences for carrying on meaningful conversation, describing themselves, asking for information, etc;

· enhance their pre-intermediate Turkish vocabulary range;

· have developed and used language learning strategies that will help not only with improving their Turkish, but with learning other languages too.

Course Texts: You will have a course book at the University Bookstore.

Elementary Turkish: A complete Course for Beginners ( Turk Dilleri Arastirmalari Dizisi) by Kurtulus Oztopcu.

• You may make use of the following for self-study purposes:
1. The official Website of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism:

http://www.kulturturizm.gov.tr

2. Online Turkish-English Dictionary: http://www.seslisozluk.com/index.php

3. Turkish Daily news in English: http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/

Assignments and Grading:

Final Examination 30 %

Midterm Examination 20 %

Quizzes* 45%

Attendance and Participation 5%

*Quizzes are announced but please note that there may also be pop-quizzes

anytime!

A 90-100

A- 87-89

B+ 84-86

B 80-83

B- 77-79

C+ 74-76

C 70-73

C- 67-69

D 60-66

F 59 and below

This course will abide strictly by the standards of academic honesty set forth in the University of Georgia "A Culture of Honesty" Policy on Academic Honesty. Any type cheating will lead to the loss of grades, which ultimately means failing the course.

Attendance and Participation:

All students are expected to attend each class and to focus on the course in class (not on things extraneous to the course). Absolutely no cell phones (or other communication devices) are to be used in class, are these are highly disruptive. This includes silently checking your messages or sending text messages!

Midterm: There will be two sections to contribute your midterm grade.

Final Exam: There will be two sections to contribute to your Final Exam grade:

a) Written Section: You will be responsible for all topics covered throughout the semester. The questions will cover language sessions. The exact date will be announced by your instructor.

b) Oral Section: In the oral exam the students will have to show their knowledge of Turkish vocabulary with correct pronunciation, read before the instructor a short text in Turkish and answer a couple of comprehension questions about the same the text. The student may also be asked to conjugate verbs and translate words or short sentences from and to Turkish. This will take place in your instructor’s office and /or a classroom at a pre-designated time.

The instructor reserves the right to make any changes to this syllabus. The course syllabus is a general plan for the course, deviations announced to the class by the instructor may be necessary.

PRELIMINARY WEEKLY COURSE PLAN

Week 1: Otobüs terminali nerede? (Where is the bus terminanal?)

Topics: Cities, places, transportation, vacation.

Functions: Asking about activities, asking about location of places, comparing things, contrasting things.

Grammar Points: The definite past auxiliary for nonverbal predicates, the interrogative of the definite past tense.

Week 2: Orada havalar nasıl? (How’s the weather over there?)

Topics: Weather, money and banking

Functions: Talking about the weather, exchanging money, asking about preferences, expressing preferences.

Grammar Points: Or questions and statements, the adverbial suffix -(y)IncA, exceptions to vowel harmony rules, question words: review -mAk için.

Week 3: Ne arzu ediyorsunuz? (What would you like?)

Topics: Food, restaurants, Turkish cuisine, grocery shopping, recipes.

Functions: Ordering a meal, expressing thanks, making requests, stating purpose.

Grammar points: Counting words, the imperative mood: Third person forms and review,the aorist tense, As-soon-as clauses

Week 4: Sekterlik işi için başvurmak istiyorum. ( I want to apply for a secretarial position.)

Topics: Work, careers, abilities and job skills, personality traits,

Functions: Stating purpose, applying for a position, asking personal traits, describing people.

Grammar points: The non-future subject participle -(y)An, correlative conjunctions: either ... or, neither ... nor, both ... and, simple, derived, and compound verbs, primary postpositions ba��ka, beri, phrasal verbs.

Week 5: Midterm.

Week 6: Bayram tatilinde ne yapıyorsun? ( What are you doing during the bayram holiday?)

Topics: Holidays, vacations, celebrations, customs and traditions, invitations.

Functions: Expressing wishes / desires, using cultural formulas appropriately, offering sympathy, extending invitations, accepting / declining invitations, offering something, accepting/ declining an offer.

Grammar points: The optative, intensive adjectives, verbal nouns -mA, -(y)I��, the relative suffix +ki.

Week 7: Bir kitap arıyorum. (I’m looking for a book.)

Topics: Books, literature, shopping, daily life and activities, time, personal letters.

Functions: Talking about books and literature, talking about daily activities, writing a personal letter.

Grammar Points: Adverbs of frequency, the derivative suffix +lA, expressions of time, primary postpositions önce, sonar, Her and hiç, the adverbial suffix -(y)Ip.

Week 8: Kiralık bir daire arıyorum. (I’m looking for a rental unit.)

Topics: Houses and apartments, accommodations, hotels.

Functions: Looking for an apartment, finding an apartment, signing a lease, finding hotel room, asking questions about a hotel room.

Grammar Points: • The future subject participle -(y)AcAk, the reflexive pronoun kendi, subject-verb agreement, word order and logical stress, the adverbial auxiliary -(y)ken, contrasting (y)IncA and -(y)ken.

Week 9: Hasta mısın? (Are you sick?)

Topics: Parts of the body, health, illnesses, hospitals and medications, remedies.

Functions: Describing minor illnesses, making appointments, asking opinion, expressing opinions, giving medical advice, apologizing for a past action, thanking for a past action.

Grammar Points: The necessitative with –mAlI, the derivative suffix –lAn, the non-future object

participle –DIK.

Week 10: Eczanede. (At the pharmacy.)

Topics: Pharmacies, hygiene, health.

Functions: Agreeing, disagreeing.

Grammar Points: The partitive and other similar structures, the future object participle-(y)AcAK, the passive and the reflexive.

Week 11: İzmir treni saat kaçta kalkıyor? (At what time does the Izmir train depart?)

Topics: Travel, transportation, humor.

Functions: Speaking about others; gossiping, asking for information, expressing anger, displeasure, describing past activities, telling jokes.

Grammar Points: Question tags, the reported past tense, the derivative suffix –I, review of the simple tenses, the dubitative auxiliary -mI��, the words aynı, ba��ka, öbür, and di��er, the adverbial suffix -(y)ArAk.

Week 12-13: Lale’yle görüşebilir miyim? (May I speak to Lale?)

Topics: Telephone messages, daily activities and chores,cities.

Functions: Taking / leaving messages over the phone, asking about ability, expressing ability,

possibility, probability, polite requests, asking for help, asking permission.

Grammar Points: • The abilitative -(y)Abil, the abilitative for politeness, the causative, the adverbial suffix –mAdAn, -mAdAn önce / -DIktAn, sonra.

Week 14: Boş musunuz? (Are you free?)

Topics: Transportation, travel, reminiscences, past experiences, the post office, getting.

Functions: Getting information about and buying a plane ticket, remembering and talking about the past, comparing the past and present, speculating about past, present, and future events, mailing a parcel; buying stamps.

Grammar Points: Forming when clauses, the past progressive tense, the habitual past tense, the conditional, the predicative suffix +Dir

Week 15: Final Examination.