Undergraduate Course: Turkish 1A (IMES08048)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The course will cover basics or Turkish language, alphabet, vowel harmony, simple, past and future tenses and reading to practice these tenses. Topic based vocabulary will be provided. Simple dialogues will be introduced.
Course description	During the first semester the syllabus design will be as following: Tthe alphabet, vowel harmony, days of the week, months, seasons, numbers, colours,telling time, adjectives- comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, progressive tense, past tense, future tense, basic vocabulary, pronouns and simple dialogues-greetings This course has been proposed to split Turkish1, which is a full year 40 credit course, into two consecutive 20 credit courses. It is expected to attract more students to register for the course.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None
Additional Costs	N\A

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
High Demand Course?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2018/19, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Course Start Date	17/09/2018
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 40, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Other Study Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 137 )
Additional Information (Learning and Teaching)	Revision
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 80 %, Coursework 10 %, Practical Exam 10 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Class work: 10% Examinations:90% [80% of this examination mark is awarded for the written paper, and 20% for the oral]
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Turkish 1a		3:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)	Turkish 1A		3:00

Academic year 2018/19, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 2
Course Start Date	14/01/2019
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 40, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 139 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 80 %, Coursework 10 %, Practical Exam 10 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Class work: 10% Examinations:90% [80% of this examination mark is awarded for the written paper, and 20% for the oral]
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Students will learn the Turkish alphabet, consonants, vowels and how they function in sentences. Students will learn Turkish vowel harmony and basic tenses such as progressive, past and future tenses and understand the differences between them, They will be able to use these structures in different contexts and do the relevant exercises. Students will be able to read and understand some basic texts and answer the text-based, open and reflective questions. They will be able to take part in simple conversations. They will learn to write some situational dialogues\introduce themselves and ask questions when working in pairs.

Reading List
None

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Study Abroad	no
Keywords	IMES Turkish 1a

Contacts
Course organiser	Dr Hilal Kaya Tel: Email: hilal.kaya@ed.ac.uk	Course secretary	Mrs Anne Budo Tel: (0131 6)50 4161 Email: a.budo@ed.ac.uk