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| IDE5690 | Readings in Language Education | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki ÇIRAKLI | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to develop students' reflective skills regarding their language learning and language teaching experiences. The course also aims to create argumentative skills from theoretical perspectives and express their insights at an academic level.
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| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Students will develop the ability to read and interpret foundational linguistic and literary theories. By engaging with texts from Saussure to Jakobson, they will explore how language functions as a system of signs, a medium of thought, and a cultural construct, fostering deeper theoretical awarenes | | | | PO - 2 : | Through texts that explore metaphor, narrative, and referentiality, students will examine how language constructs meaning in literary and non-literary contexts. They will learn to identify linguistic patterns, discourse levels, and semiotic structures, enhancing their interpretive skills across genr | | | | PO - 3 : | Students will connect theoretical insights to their own experiences as language learners and educators. This reflective practice will help them critically assess pedagogical assumptions, | | | | PO - 4 : | Students will enhance their critical thinking skills and develop empathy by synthesizing theoretical frameworks through experiential academic writing. This reflective approach will deepen their pedagogical awareness and increase their potential to contribute to applied linguistics. | | | | 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), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course provides an overview of primary theoretical texts in language studies. Most of the topics covered in the course center around language, literature, and linguistics from theoretical perspectives.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | ?Why Language is Good?? ? Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
| | | Week 2 | ?Why Literature is Good?? ? Ars Poetica (Horace)
| | | Week 3 | Language as a System of Signs ? Course on General Linguistics (Saussure) | | | Week 4 | Utterance, Sound Images, Absence ? Course on General Linguistics (Saussure) | | | Week 5 | Verbal and Nonverbal Communication ? Language as Words and Signs (Fromkin) | | | Week 6 | Language as Discourse ? Literature in Education (Hall)
| | | Week 7 | Language as Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Patterns: Generative Grammar (Chomsky)
| | | Week 8 | Language as Metaphor: Metaphors We Live By (Lakoff & Johnson) | | | Week 9 | Midterm Projects | | | Week 10 | Discourse as Puzzle: ?Insights into Language and Literature: Teaching Metaphor? (Çıraklı & Yükselir)
| | | Week 11 | Language as Function (I): Austin-Wellek
| | | Week 12 | Language as Function (II): How to Do Things with Words?
| | | Week 13 | Language and Thought ? Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Yule) | | | Week 14 | Language and the Problem of Referentiality ? Picture Language (Wittgenstein)
| | | Week 15 | Two Aspects of Language (Jakobson) | | | Week 16 | Language as Metaphor and Metonym | | | |
| 1 | Saussure, F. de. (2011). Course in general linguistics (W. Baskin, Trans.). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1916)
Fromkin, V., Rodman, R., & Hyams, N. (2018). An introduction to language (11th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Hall, G. (2005). Literature in language education. Palgrave Macmillan.
| | | 2 | Chomsky, N. (2002). Syntactic structures. Mouton de Gruyter. (Original work published 1957)
Yule, G. (2006). The study of language (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.
Çıraklı, M., & Yükselir, C. (2020). Insights into language and literature: Teaching metaphor. pp. | | | 3 | Austin, J. L. (1962). How to do things with words. Harvard University Press.
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| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Project | Final Projesi | Final | | 50 | | Presentation | 7
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11 | Dönem İçi | | 25 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 9 | 19.11.2025 | | 25 | | |
| 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 | 4 | 15 | 60 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 15 | 15 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 8 | 8 | | Uygulama | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Ödev | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Proje | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 7 | 7 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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