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YDI2001 | Reading and Writing in English | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | Level of Course | First Cycle | Status | Compulsory | Department | DEPARTMENT of SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | Öğr. Gör. Dr Zeynep ŞAHİN TİMAR | Co-Lecturer | | Language of instruction | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | The aim of the course: | The course aims to enable the students with an overall knowledge on the basis of the field, to supply them to understand what the field is interested in, the importance of branch, and the significance of the field in the contemporary world and to comprehend a passage and express what they understand in English verbally and in prose. |
Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | LO - 1 : | comprehend the texts chosen from various academic topics and make sentences in their fields, write essay. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,2,3 | LO - 2 : | learn the basic words used in the field and translate the articles from mother tongue to English or vice versa. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,2,3 | LO - 3 : | make sentences and write essays related to the significance of the field. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,2,3 | LO - 4 : | make some presentations and evaluations. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,2,3 | 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 | |
Reading texts related to the department; grammar activities; related vocabulary and translation; listening activites; discussions over the current issues in the field |
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Course Syllabus | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | Week 1 | Revision of tenses, The history of the internet | | Week 2 | Health and medicine, revision of passives | | Week 3 | Social issues(divorce trends, where are all the boys?) | | Week 4 | Environmental issues, Revision of Modals | | Week 5 | Law and crime, revision of relative clauses | | Week 6 | Language and literature, Noun Clauses | | Week 7 | Space and exploration,conjunctions | | Week 8 | Sports and fitness, adverbial clauses | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | Week 10 | People and opinions, conditionals | | Week 11 | Cross-cultural viewpoints, paragraph studies | | Week 12 | Business and economics | | Week 13 | The Future of water | | Week 14 | Illegal Immigration | | Week 15 | Hackers and crackers | | Week 16 | Final exam | | |
1 | Jordan R.R. 1990, Academic Writing Course, Nelson, EdinburghEvans Virginia, 2002, Successful Writing, Express Publishing, Liberty House, New Greenham Park, Newbury | | 2 | Brumby Paul and Sheila, 1985, A Reading Skills Course, Ankara Üniversitesi Basımevi, AnkaraMosback Gerald, Mosback Vivienne, 1988, Practical Faster Reading, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | | |
1 | Öztürk Cesur, 2000, Fundamentals of English Grammar, Hacettepe Taş, Ankara | | |
Method of Assessment | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | Mid-term exam | 9 | | | 50 | End-of-term exam | 16 | | | 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 | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | Total work load | | | 50 |
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