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| ELL3077 | Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ali Şükrü ÖZBAY | | Co-Lecturer | Assoc.Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü ÖZBAY | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To increase their awareness towards corpus tools
To help them create an atmosphere of self discovery
To help them learn such lexical properties as "priming, prosody and phraseology" |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | learn how to make corpus based investigations | | | | LO - 2 : | learn more about the multi word combinations | | | | LO - 3 : | observe the authentic and naturally occuring data throguh corpus | | | | LO - 4 : | learn more about the lexical aspects of English language thought these observations | | | | LO - 5 : | transfer corpus knowledge into other fields of their interest as well. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The students who are enrolled to this course will be given basic corpus skills such as using corpus tools and concordances, key word analysis. They will be rerquirred to make content specific searches through corpus tools in an attemp to create an atmosphere of self-discovery and satisfaction in their parts. They will be asked to make lexical investigations from the various corpora they will be introduced and such lexical items as collocations, colligations and recurrent word combinations in English will be investigated. The aim to do is to increase their awareness towards this kind of combinative nature of English language. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Basic Corpus skills | | | Week 2 | Using AntConc 3.2.1. and sample analysis | | | Week 3 | Using Sketch Engine and sample analysis | | | Week 4 | collacation analyses | | | Week 5 | multi word combinations analyses | | | Week 6 | Discussion of what they have done so far: Creating-awareness week | | | Week 7 | Sentence analysis-adjective clauses who-which-that | | | Week 8 | noun clause analyses | | | Week 9 | adverbial analyses | | | Week 10 | | | | Week 11 | | | | Week 12 | | | | Week 13 | | | | Week 14 | | | | Week 15 | | | | Week 16 | | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 20/4/2016 | 2 | 25 | | Project | 11 | 4/5/2016 | 100 | 25 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | 24/5/2016 | | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Uygulama | 6 | 14 | 84 | | Ödev | 8 | 4 | 32 | | Proje | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Total work load | | | 162 |
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