College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Elementary Turkish II
Module ARA1032 for 2022/3
Module ARA1032 for 2022/3
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA1032: Elementary Turkish II
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to enhance your basic reading, writing and communication skills in Turkish. It aims to develop all language-related skills, including reading, listening, speaking and writing—plus cultural knowledge—by means of written texts and audio-visual clips. By the end of the module, you are expected to be ready to embark on intermediate-level study of the language.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Extract a broad sense and some specified detail of written texts at CEFRL level A2. 2. Extract a sense and some specified detail of aural communications at CEFRL level A2. 3. Write short and simple texts on selected topics at CEFRL level A2. 4. Verbally elicit, understand and communicate basic factual information and simple selected topics relevant to everyday situations in Turkish, displaying reasonable levels of oral accuracy at CEFRL level A2. 5. Achieve straightforward translations from and into the target language. 6. Demonstrate a sound grasp of a growing range of basic grammatical structures of Turkish and utilise it to understand and produce texts in it. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 7. Learn how to consolidate your own learning by using available learning aids, in a variety of media, and organise this process with guidance from course tutors. 8. Understand the principles of intensively learning a new language and organise learning time with guidance from course tutors. 9. Use a reference grammar book and a bilingual dictionary to check the structural and lexical accuracy of your writing and expression in Turkish. |
Personal and Key Skills | 10. Gain experience in working in groups at solving basic linguistic tasks. 11. Develop time management strategies through developing skills of self-study. 12. Exercise autonomy and judgement by developing independent learning skills. 13. Develop strategies for coping with unpractised linguistic, social and cultural situation. 14. Further develop a basic appreciation of the cultures of the people who speak Turkish. |