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  2. English Language Teaching (English)
  3. English Preparations (2024 - 2025)
Course Name Code Semester T+U Hours Credit ECTS
English Preparations ELT 001 9 20 + 0 20 60
Precondition Courses
Recommended Optional Courses
Course Language English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Course Coordinator Öğr.Gör. ORKUN ÖZTÜRK
Course Lecturers Öğr.Gör. AYDIN ÇELENK, Öğr.Gör. İLKNUR KILIÇ, Öğr.Gör. ORKUN ÖZTÜRK, Öğr.Gör. KÜBRA NUR AYAZ ÖZTÜRK,
Course Assistants
Course Category Basic Teaching Suitable For Field
Course Objective

The objective of the department's compulsory preparatory class is to bring the department students' foreign language proficiency to B2 level and to ensure that they become fluent language users at a sufficient level in the four basic skills that form the basis of the language.
Course Content

This course lasts for one academic year (Fall and Spring semesters) and consists of three components. This course, which is a total of 20 lessons/hours per week, consists of 15 lessons/hours of Main Course and 5 lessons/hours of language skills lessons per week. The end-of-year evaluation of the course will be done as a single course, and in order to pass the preparatory class, it is necessary to get at least 80 out of 100 points from the proficiency test to be held at the end of the academic year in which this course is taken.
Development Goals
# Course Learning Outcomes Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1 Students have the required foreign language proficiency to become a foreign language teacher.
2 Students improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English.
3 Students have sufficient foreign language knowledge to follow academic publications related to their profession.
4 Students master the pronunciation system of English and use different sentence structures when necessary.
5 Students are open to learning and eager to interact with other cultures, including their own.
Week Course Topics Preliminary Preparation
1 SaUPET (Sakarya University Preparatory Class English Proficiency Test) Students can find Subject+Verb and auxilary verb in sentences, recognise the elements of a paragraph and write an introductory sentence.
2 Students can talk about daily life, express their own ideas, and make suggestions. Students know and use simple sentence patterns. They understand the importance of the reader or the target audience.
3 Students can talk and write about situations they encounter in daily life. They can talk and write about their families. Students know and use the differences between simple and connected sentences. They can determine the reasons for writing and find the appropriate writing style.
4 Students can talk about their experiences in education and business life, exchange ideas. They can narrate a story. Students know how to combine two sentences and determine a writing strategy.
5 Students can write a summary of a person's life. Students can write combined sentences using transitional conjunctions. They can plan the paragraph they will write.
6 Students can express their feelings. They can say and write how they feel. Students can use different types of sentences. They can use supporting ideas in paragraphs.
7 Students can ask for help with anything, or offer to help someone. Students can ask for help with anything, or offer to help someone.
8 MIDTERM EXAM 1
9 Students can talk and write about future plans. They can use conditional sentences. Students can write a descriptive paragraph and use complex sentences.
10 Students can establish cause and effect relationship about actions and situations. They can explain by giving examples. Students can write a narrative paragraph. They can use different types of dependent sentences.
11 Students can describe a place or a space. They can make requests and ask for permission on any subject. Students can decide the function of sentences in a narrative paragraph.
12 Students can comment on a conversation they have listened to. They can understand and interpret the ideas of others. They can use passive sentences. Students can write a descriptive paragraph and use different adjectives to describe anything.
13 Students can comment on past events or situations. They can talk about regrets. Students can use transitional conjunctions between sentences while writing a description paragraph.
14 Students can comment on movies and TV series, write crituques. They can make recommendations. They can express themselves by using conditional sentences. Students can write a process paragraph.
15 Students can talk about possibilities and give advice on possibilities. Students can use different tenses while speaking or writing.
16 MIDTERM EXAM 2
17 Students can discuss about someone they know or love. Students can write a descriptive paragraph. They can use appropriate chronoşogical order of the events.
18 Students can describe what needs to be done according to the situation and conditions. Students can use participles while writing or speaking.
19 Students can warn about possible dangers and consequences of actions. They can respond to compliments directed at them. Students can classify things and write a classification paragraph.
20 Students can talk about their abilities. They can express and write their ideas about success. Students can use the adjective form of the verb while speaking or writing.
21 Students can talk about important events in their lives. They can discuss the rules. Students can compare and contrast two things.
22 Students can write and talk about their predictions about the future. Students can write a compare&contrast paragraph.
23 Students can talk and write about advantages and disadvantages of any event or situation. Students know the importance of subject verb agreement.
24 MIDTERMEXAM 3
25 Students can explain in detail the choices they made. They can use passive sentences. Students can discuss a topic and write a discussion.
26 Students can discuss changes. Students can write coherent sentences and pay attention to the unity of the paragraph.
27 Students can discuss their ideas about moving from any place to a new place. They can talk and write about the things they dream about. Students know the sections of an essay.
28 Students can express their opinions on financial, moral and social issues. Students can write introduction paragraph for an essay.
29 Students can ask questions to learn about the subjects they are hesitant about. Students can write body paragraphs for their essays.
30 Students can speculate about past events. Students can use examples to support their ideas and give references when necessary.
31 Students can express their own feelings and expess them. Students can write the conclusion paragraph for their essays.
32 MIDTERM EXAM 4
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Resources
Course Notes
Course Resources
Order Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Explains the necessary theoretical, methodological and factual knowledge about foreign language (English) education and teaching profession and uses them to produce solution(s) to educational problems. X
2 Uses language skills (reading, speaking, writing, listening skills) at a level that can communicate effectively by analyzing written and oral texts produced in foreign language (English) and mother tongue (Turkish) with a critical approach. X
3 As a foreign language teacher, knows the legislation concerning the duties, rights and responsibilities and behaves in compliance with the legislation. X
4 Uses the scientific methods and technologies required to follow the innovations in the field of foreign language teaching, to develop original activities and to find solution(s) to possible problems. X
5 Plans the language learning process taking into account the diverse characteristics and life experiences of learners and organizes the appropriate environments and carry out the process effectively. X
6 Analyzes and evaluates foreign language teaching programs in their own context by choosing appropriate approaches. X
7 Prepares and implements appropriate assessment and evaluation tools for foreign language teaching and development of students. X
8 Effectively uses intercultural communication skills in the process of foreign language (English) teaching and with his/her attitudes and behaviours becomes a role model for the students. X
9 Actively uses the skills of learning to learn, self-regulation, lifelong learning, critical and creative thinking and redounds these skills to his/her students. Knows and applies the ways of establishing effective communication and cooperation with stakeholder institutions and organizations as a foreign language teacher. X
10 Knows and applies the ways of establishing effective communication and cooperation with stakeholder institutions and organizations as a foreign language teacher. X
11 At the end of the process of foreign language (English) education, prepares his/her students as individuals who can use foreign language as an effective communication medium in everyday life. X
12 Knows the structure of the language to be taught, the rules and the various contexts in which it can be used, and uses the target language appropriately and compares it to other languages he/she has learned. X
# Contribution of Course Learning Outcomes to Program Outcomes PÇ 1 PÇ 2 PÇ 3 PÇ 4 PÇ 5 PÇ 6 PÇ 7 PÇ 8 PÇ 9 PÇ 10 PÇ 11 PÇ 12
1 Students have the required foreign language proficiency to become a foreign language teacher. 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Students improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English. 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
3 Students have sufficient foreign language knowledge to follow academic publications related to their profession. 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
4 Students master the pronunciation system of English and use different sentence structures when necessary. 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
5 Students are open to learning and eager to interact with other cultures, including their own. 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Evaluation System
Semester Studies Contribution Rate
1. Ara Sınav 15
2. Ara Sınav 15
1. Kısa Sınav 5
2. Kısa Sınav 5
3. Kısa Sınav 5
1. Ödev 5
3. Ara Sınav 15
4. Ara Sınav 15
4. Kısa Sınav 5
5. Kısa Sınav 5
6. Kısa Sınav 5
2. Ödev 5
Total 100
1. Final 60
1. Yıl İçinin Başarıya 40
Total 100
ECTS - Workload Activity Quantity Time (Hours) Total Workload (Hours)
Mid-terms 4 60 240
Quiz 6 36 216
Assignment 2 60 120
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 20 320
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 30 480
Final examination 1 120 120
Total Workload 1496
Total Workload / 25 (Hours) 59.84
dersAKTSKredisi 60