Week 1

Linguists are constantly asked the question “How many languages do you speak?” This question is a little irritating, because it is largely irrelevant to what linguists are trying to do. The goals of linguistics are to describe and understand the structure of human languages; to discover the ways in which all languages are alike and the ways in which they may differ. The point is that even if one could speak all 8000 or so of the world’s languages, one would not have solved all the problems of linguistics. The reason is this: speaking a language and knowing its structure are two very different things. In speaking a language, one uses thousands of grammatical rules without being aware of them; they are “unconscious knowledge.” Linguists attempt to make explicit this unconscious knowledge by looking closely at the data of language. That is, they attempt to make the “implicit knowledge” of native speakers into explicit knowledge. This goal implies one of the central methods of doing linguistic research, the consultant session. Quite often, a linguist will study the structure of language she does not speak; this is done by finding a native-speaker consultant to provide the data. The linguist normally asks the.

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COURSE SYLLABUS

FATİH UNIVESITY, FACULTY OF EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION

EDU 407 – SCHOOL PRACTICE

Fall, 2013

Instructors: Dr. Serpil Zaman Kılıç              Email: szaman@fatih.edu.tr

Course Dates: Mon. 12pm-13:50pm

                                    

Office Hours: R-349, Güz. San.

                        Tues. 10am-12pm

Course Description:

This course aims to familiarize students with the real teaching practices carried out at different levels of school. This course emphasizes the importance of teaching competences necessary for becoming an effective class teacher.

Course Book:  Cohen, L., Maion, L., and Morrison, Keith. (1996), A guide to teaching practice, New York: Routhledge.

Course Content:

Week 1	September, 16-20	Introduction to the course
Week 2	September /October, 30-04	Effective Teacher: Characteristics of an effective teacher : Teaching philosophy,your imaginary teacher
Week 3	October, 7-11	School Environment : People,Taking pictures of the school building,(classes):
Week 4	October, 14-18	Feast of Sacrifice
Week 5	October,21-25	School regulations,  teachers’  responsibilities ( Lecture week)  ministry of education
Week 6	October/ November, 28-01	Communication: Verbal and Non verbal communication, ( announcements: school boards, bulletin boards): T-S S-S S-T interaction
Week 7	November, 04-08	Classroom management  A :Rapport with the students, creating a   positive learning environment, seating arrangement
Week 8	November, 11-16	Midterm Week
Week 9	November, 18-22	Classroom Management: B: Time Management, Assertive Discipline, Setting the Class Norms:
Week 10	November,25-29	Learning Styles and Strategies
Week 11	December, 02-06	Acitivities for Receptive  Skills
Week 12	December,09-13	Activities for Productive Skills
Week 13	December, 16-20	Teaching Materials
Week 14	December, 23-27	Overview of the course

Course Requirements:

• Attendance (10%)
•  Observation (20 %)
•  Journals (50 %)
•  Action Research and Poster Presentation(20%)