Institute of Graduate Studies and Research

English Language Teaching (MA)

Duration 2 Years

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About the Program

The M.A. in ELT Program, which is accredited by the Higher Education, Planning, Accreditation and Coordination Council (Northern Cyprus) and the Higher Education Council of the Turkish Republic provides graduate students with the opportunity to specialize in the teaching of English in primary schools, secondary schools and higher education institutions. The program aims to enable graduate students to:
-enhance their teaching skills in ELT,
-improve their knowledge and skills in ELT syllabus design,
-study and evaluate current second language research studies,
-gain the competence needed to carry out necessary studies for the improvement of the quality of English Language Teaching,
-learn the most recent advances in the methods of foreign and second language teaching,
-design and evaluate new techniques and classroom activities in teaching English.

Education Opportunities

The M.A. in ELT Program of the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, CIU hosts students from diverse countries. All classrooms used for the M.A. in ELT program are equipped with interactive touch panel boards, which provide web-based resources and contribute to the enhancement of learning. The university library has a special unit for ELT books and related resources. In addition to the department courses, students of the program benefit from diverse lectures, workshops and seminars delivered by ELT experts. Students have the opportunity to participate in student engagement projects or some other extracurricular activities that they would enjoy.

Career Areas

The M.A. in ELT graduates can work in the fields of curriculum development, teacher training, administration, and materials writing as well as in the field of teaching English as a foreign or second language at private or state schools and especially at higher education institutions. M.A. in ELT graduates have the opportunity to enroll in a Ph.D. program and to carry out further study in the field of ELT.ay.

Contact

Institute of Graduate Studies and Research
Graduate Sciences and Education Center, GE106
Tel: +90 392 671 1111 Extension: 2776
Institute E-mail: ciu-institute@ciu.edu.tr

Compulsory Courses

First Semester

SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Course code

ELTE502

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The module aims to familiarise students with some well-known facts about how second languages are learned. Students will be able to describe some of the ways in which learners develop knowledge of a second language, have a clear understanding of some of the topics which have been addressed by researchers who have studied second language learner development, and they will have assessed some of the theories which have been proposed to account for second language development. After a brief historical overview of SLA research, they will focus on up-to-date theories. Some of the theoretical topics that students will cover are universal grammar, cognitive approaches, input and interaction, socio-cultural perspective, and socio-linguistic perspectives.

TEFL METHODOLOGY

Course code

ELTE505

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This course studies diverse foreign or second language teaching methods and how they differ from one another from the perspective of approach, design, and procedure. It provides students with insights into the characteristics of each method and enables them to choose an appropriate procedure for a specific context and deliver their lessons accordingly. The course covers the teaching of language items (pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and discursive features, the development of four macro language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing), the realization of language functions, and the development of language strategies. Students will be able to compare traditional and communicative approaches and carry out research into teaching English as foreign or second language Teaching.

SEMINAR

Course code

ELTE590

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This course is designed to help students in the master’s program to develop their research skills in the area of study. Students will determine their thesis topic and work collaboratively with their thesis advisor and conduct a literature review in their area of interest, establish a problem associated with the topic, and formulate research hypotheses. After this stage, students will then apply to the university ethics committee for approval and wait. Upon ethics committee approval, can data be collected, and at the end of the class, students will prepare a preliminary report and present what they have found, advisors will offer feedback and make suggestions.

ELECTIVE

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ELTE5X1

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ELECTIVE

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ELTE5X2

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ELECTIVE

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ELTE5X3

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ELECTIVE

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ELTE5X4

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ELECTIVE

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ELTE5X5

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Second Semester

THESIS

Course code

ELTE500

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In this course, students will plan a scientific study with their advisors. As students determine their thesis topics, they will conduct a literature review and determine their research design. Students must register for this course in their 3rd semester after passing all the courses. Prior to collecting data university, ethics committee approval must be obtained. Until approval is received, students need to write the first two chapters of their thesis and be in continuous contact with their thesis advisors where they will receive feedback and corrections. At the end of the semester, students get a ‘P’ if their work is successful. After completing their thesis, they defend it in front of the jury.

Elective Courses

TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Course code

ELTE516

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This course focuses on the unique needs of young English language learners. Some topics include adapting teaching techniques to suit young learners, bearing in mind their cognitive development, attention span, and learning styles, including the importance of the affective domain. Critical issues and challenges in teaching English to young learners will be presented and discussed. Topics such as immersion teaching in English and CLIL are taught and significant research outcomes are presented. Language development in young learners is one of the most important topics. Building on this, teaching grammar, storytelling, picture books, drama, technology and intercultural understanding are exemplified and possible materials to use to present these topics are shown. The module is completed with various ways of assessment and portfolio that can be used as assessment and evaluation techniques with children.

CURRICULUM DESIGN AND EVALUATION

Course code

ELTE511

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The course offers teachers the means to evaluate classroom practices, materials, course books, language programmes and teachers. These dimensions of evaluation will be examined in depth using the framework “what, who, when and how of the evaluation process” as curriculum design, development and assessment are essential aspects of teaching and learning in the classroom. It provides ways of redesigning the curriculum for enhancing and maximizing student learning when necessary. Curriculum design and evaluation principles will be discussed and necessary tools will be provided for students to analyse and evaluate curriculum principles, policies, and practices.

LANGUAGE TESTING

Course code

ELTE506

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This course focuses on important issues in language testing by focusing on relevant literature, provides students with practical experience in designing language test items, a wider understanding of research in the field of language testing (based on current research articles), and an additional insight into socio-cultural and ethical aspects of language testing. The course aims to deal with the topics: validity, reliability, rating scales, ethical issues, the assessment of receptive skills (listening and reading) and productive skills (speaking and writing), testing techniques, testing procedures, and the evaluation of test items. Language testing covers considerable practical work on constructing tests and analysing test results.

APPLIED LİNGUISTICS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Course code

ELTE521

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The course covers applied linguistic concepts and basic literature with special emphasis on the application of linguistic theories to foreign or second language teaching and learning. It focuses on the solution of problems encountered by language learners in the process of first and second language acquisition. At the end of this course, the students will be able to: (1) explain the impacts of diverse approaches to the study of languages on language teaching, (2) compare basic aspects of L1 and L2, (3) describe possible problems learners may encounter in learning another language, (4) carry out error analysis, (5) discuss basic applied linguistic concepts.

RESEARCH METHODS IN ELT

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ELTE513

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This course focuses on research into foreign/second language education and aims to enable master’s students to critically evaluate published research in the ELT field, and design their own research studies. The course covers a range of theoretical, practical, and ethical issues in the field of ELT research, with an emphasis on language teaching and learning. It focuses on the research design, examines principles for undertaking empirical research, introduces quantitative and qualitative methods for conducting research in the language classroom, and provides hands-on experience with research design, instruments for data collection, quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis, evaluation of published research, and research report writing.

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Course code

ELTE509

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The aim of this course is to investigate the functions of language (in other words, what language is used for) and how meaning is constructed in different contexts. The course focuses on the organization of language above the sentence level and analyses spoken and written discourse from the perspective of its lexical, grammatical, functional and organisational features. It also deals with the influence of cultural, situational and textual contexts on the construction and decoding of discourse. It covers the fundamental approaches to the analysis of discourse such as speech act theory, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.

LITERATURE IN TEFL

Course code

ELTE510

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This course is a practical course in which students compile their own portfolio of children’s literature, poetry, short stories and short plays and examine ways these can be presented in the classroom to enhance the learner’s enjoyment of the English language through literature. It will offer a background to textual construction and language use, language use in literary texts, and interpretation of the reader. The course also dwells on literary studies including how literature and language are integrated. The students are expected to develop their verbal, written and oral skills through these texts. Moreover, they will improve their critical thinking abilities through literature.

SHORT STORY ANALYSIS

Course code

ELLE509

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This course offers a historical background to the short story and helps students to develop their skills in analyzing short stories. Focuses on reading, discussion, and written analysis of short stories in order to develop skills in literary analysis and interpretation and familiarity with the conventions of the short story. The selected stories are drawn from various literary traditions, although emphasis may be placed on the American tradition, which has been especially productive and influential. Emphasis will be on the historical development of the short story as a distinct literary genre. Samples from all over the world will be examined.

LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Course code

ELLE502

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The course focuses on the analysis of various literary texts on the basis of various trends of criticism and culture specific issues. The course will examine the major contemporary literary theories, the key concepts in each, analyse the main theoretical and interpretive methods, apply and illustrate these in literary texts, as well as compare and contrast the different interpretive strategies.The adaptation procedure of literary texts into films and other documentaries will be examined. Selected films will be analyzed in class. The relationship between literature and culture and different types of related theories will be discussed and related films will be interpreted accordingly.

TEACHING LANGUAGE SKILLS I

Course code

ELTE333

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This course deals with the basic principles of language teaching, diverse procedures to be used in language teaching, the preparation of language teaching plans in line with diverse language teaching methods, practical suggestions for lesson planning, classroom management and delivering effective lessons, the teaching of pronunciation, listening, reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, grammar and functions of language. This course also places emphasis on the diverse stages of a lesson plan and the techniques to be followed in lesson planning, the features to be taken into consideration in the preparation of a lesson plan such as age, learners’ level of target language.

METHODOLOGY I

Course code

ELTE254

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Basic concepts related to principles and methods of teaching; teaching-learning principles, models, strategies, methods and techniques; setting goals and objectives in teaching (cognitive, affective and psychomotor goals), selecting and organizing content in teaching and learning; teaching materials; planning teaching and instructional plans; theories and approaches related to teaching (such as teaching through presentation, learning through discovery, research through inquiry learning, programmed instruction, project-based learning, cooperative learning, constructivism), teaching in effective schools, success in learning and teaching; evaluation of classroom learning; teachers' duties and responsibilities in increasing the quality of instructional services, teacher competencies, students’ abilities to apply basic cognitive concepts to teaching plans, physical characteristics of teaching environment.

SPECIAL STUDIES I

Course code

ELTE570

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Students choose and study a topic under the supervision of a faculty member. Upon the choice of the course, the syllabus is designed by the academic staff in cooperation with the students who unroll for the Special Studies Course.

LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

Course code

ELLE501

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This course mainly focuses on literary discourse. It aims to offer a background to textual construction and language use, language use in literary texts, and interpretation of the reader. The course also dwells on literary studies, including how literature and language are integrated. This course is based on a survey of a selection of historically and culturally significant literary texts. The students are expected to develop their verbal, written and oral skills through these texts. Students will be able to analyze a variety of literary texts written in English in their contextual usage and improve their critical thinking abilities through literary texts.

TEACHING LANGUAGE SKILLS II

Course code

ELTE334

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This course, which is the continuation of ELTE303, deals with the basic principles of language teaching, diverse procedures to be used in language teaching, the preparation of language teaching plans in line with diverse language teaching methods, practical suggestions for lesson planning, classroom management and delivering effective lessons, the teaching of pronunciation, listening, reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, grammar and functions of language. This course also places emphasis on the diverse stages of a lesson plan and the techniques to be followed in lesson planning, the features to be taken into consideration in the preparation of a lesson plan such as age, learners’ level of target language.

METHODOLOGY II

Course code

ELTE323

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STYLISTICS

Course code

ELLE505

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This is an interdisciplinary course which deals with some of the ways in which texts, particularly literary texts, can be examined from a linguistic perspective. Its aims is enable students to use linguistic analysis in order to explain how literary texts achieve their effects.It covers areas such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, semantics and literary studies. It aims at helping students to apply textual analysis to oral and written texts. In this course, attention will be given to the relevance of stylistics to literary works and cultural productions. Th course also will demonstrate how communicative effects are achieved through linguistic choices.

LANGUAGE ACQUISION

Course code

ELTE208

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This course presents an overview of the theories of first and second language acquisition (e.g.: behaviorism, innatism, information processing, connectionism, the interactionist position) and focuses on the developmental stages and sequences of first and target language acquisition. Case studies, comparative analysis of the use of native and target languages in corpus data (e.g.: CHILDES database), recordings and/or transcriptions of real second language classroom interaction will be employed for the analysis of first and second language acquisition; comparison of second language acquisition in children and in adults; identifying developmental sequences in first language acquisition; stages in second language morpho-syntactic development; processes in second language acquisition; learner characteristics and individual variation in ultimate attainment in second language acquisition (e.g.: role of personality, language aptitude, intelligence, age of acquisition, motivation and attitudes, learner preferences and beliefs); differences between second language acquisition and foreign language learning contexts (e.g.: natural vs. instructional settings). Lectures, group and pair work activities will be utilized.

PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

Course code

ELTE201

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Rewing language teaching methods is one of the goals of the course. The other goals are designing and conducting needs analysis on language learner needs (e.g.: situational, objective,subjective and language needs), writing objectives that reflect these needs and designing course syllabus at the macro level and micro level; an overview of different lesson stages (i.e.: Presentation, Practice and Production) and approaches to lesson planning and course design; various syllabus types and criteria for the selection of appropriate syllabus type according to the learner needs, learner age and aims of the course; standards-based teaching, proficiency descriptors, English language proficiency standards and guidelines, Common European Framework and the European Language Portfolio; and identity. This course also provides prospective teachers with insights into the behaviour problems occurring commonly in classrooms and to prepare them to be effective managers of their classrooms so that student learning is maximised.

APPROACHES TO ELT I

Course code

ELTE233

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ENGLISH TEACHING PROGRAMS

Course code

ELTE202

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FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS

Course code

ELTE518

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Dilbilimin Temelleri dersi, sesbilim, ses bilgisi, biçimbilim, sözdizim, anlambilim, edimbilim ve sözlükbilim dahil olmak üzere dilin çeşitli alt dizgelerini inceler. Çeşitli dil kuramları ve dil sorunları tartışılır. Her bir dilbilim kuramı incelenir ve örneklendirilir. Ayrıca dillerin nasıl öğrenildiği ve zaman içinde nasıl değiştikleri de araştırılır. Bu ders, dil inceleme yöntemlerini, dilsel incelemelerde kullanılan analitik araçları ve dilbilim kuramlarının eleştirel incelemesini kapsar. Sesbilim, ses bilgisi, biçimbilim, sözdizim, anlambilim konularının yanı sıra dilbilimin disiplinler arası alanlarında yer alan temel kavramları sistematik olarak irdeler. Dersin sonunda öğrenciler dil sorunlarını tespit edip analiz edebilecek ve edindikleri bilgileri dil öğretimine yansıtabileceklerdir.

METHODOLOGY-II

Course code

ELTE323

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This course aims to equip prospective teachers of English language with knowledge of the theoretical background and principles of task-based instruction. Accordingly, the course is structured to help prospective teachers to develop skills in setting learning goals, designing and implementing lesson plans in line with the principles of task-based instruction. It also provides an overview of classroom-based research, teacher directed research and action research, diagnosing learners’ language related needs and remedial teaching activities; principles of learner monitoring and role of learner assessment in lesson planning; national and international professional organizations (e.g.: TESOL and INGED) and practical journals (e.g.: English Teaching Forum, ELTJ, TESLJ and TESL Reporter).

TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS-II

Course code

ELTE304

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TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS-I

Course code

ELTE301

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Students will understand the differences between young learners (K-6) and learners at other ages (in terms of learning of language structures, skills and sub-skills), misconceptions about young learners; learner styles (e.g. visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and strategies (e.g. meta cognitive, cognitive, socio affective) of young learners; activities (e.g. puzzles, stories, games, simulations) and audio visual aids (e.g. pictures, realia, cartoons, puppets, songs) for the teaching of vocabulary, language skills and structures; selecting and sequencing teaching points and adapting and evaluating materials according to the cognitive and affective development and language level of the learners; classroom management techniques necessary for young learner classrooms.

BRITISH DRAMA FROM 1950 TO THE PRESENT

Course code

ELLE512

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This course aims to familiarize students with the genres of drama, main trends in contemporary British drama, prominent dramatists and their work; to help students to analyse the main elements of plays and discuss them, and compare and contrast plays. This course examines plays that engage with issues of family, relationships, class, race and gender and that question accepted versions of history in the light of contemporaneous political events. The plays were selected to mirror the poetry, fiction and cinema of the time in interrogating the values and attitudes of the preceding generations and reflect the dramatists' determination to promote new perspectives.

PRAGMATICS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING

Course code

ELTE524

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The course aims to provide students with insights into the use of language in communication, possible interpretations of utterances depending on the contexts and situations in which they are used, speech acts, maxims of conversation, and implications of the study of pragmatics for language teaching. The course is about how meaning varies from one context to another in terms of utterance meaning. It examines how what is said fulfils different functions in different contexts. In this course, it is also discussed how people cooperate to carry out effective communication. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to discuss important concepts in pragmatics and analyse naturally occurring linguistic data for both structure and function.

SATIRE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Course code

ELLE515

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The course presents satire with reference to its origins and its use in various texts and periods. This course exposes students to a variety of satires from different historical and cultural contexts and questions whether satire can effect change. Students will learn the modes and tools of satirical texts—understatement, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, etc.—in order to gain a deeper sense of how satires are successfully created and executed. The course studies satire in a variety of forms and media such as novels, plays, television shows, movies, websites, and blogs. Students will learn how to choose the best related texts.

TEFL METHODOLOGY

Course code

ELTE505

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BRITISH - IRISH DRAMA

Course code

ELLE511

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In this course, the focus will be on introducing the plays written in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course also dwells on the analysis of the chosen plays in British and Irish literature. The course will choose representatives from 19th- and 20th-century English and Irish plays by major dramatists such as Caryl Churchill, Shaw, Synge, Yeats, Beckett, and Walsh. Students will acquaint themselves with a range of plays, playwrights, performance spaces, dramaturgical conventions, and acting methods of these periods to understand the role and impact of theatre in British and Irish popular culture. Students will learn how to choose the best drama plays.

TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS-II

Course code

ELTE302

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This course aims to provide teacher candidates with theoretical and practical information on teaching a second/foreign language to young learners. In the course, special emphasis is allocated to teaching the four main language skills to young learners and teacher language use in the classroom. In addition, the course covers issues regarding the assessment of young learners and lesson planning. Participants will prepare lesson plans and present practice lessons on specific subskills. Also, by the end of the course students will be familiar with young learner (K-6) course syllabuses (e.g.: story-based, content-based, theme-based, task-based), effective use of child literature within a chosen syllabus; video recordings of young learner classrooms with reference to classroom management, presentation of language and practice.

ENGLISH PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

Course code

ELTE501

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This course focuses on fundamental features of phonetics and phonology. It deals with both segmental phonemes such as consonants, vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs, allophones and suprasegmental phonemes such as word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, pitch levels, tone units, and the relationship between intonation and meaning. It also covers phonological rules and assimilation. In this course, pronunciation problems of learners of English will be discussed and possible solutions to pronunciation problems will be investigated. Students will be able to improve their pronunciation and correct their prospective learners’ learners’ pronunciation errors. They will also be able to carry out descriptive and/or experimental research into learners’ pronunciation errors.

LITERATURE AND MEDIA

Course code

ELLE522

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This course covers the overlapping part of the media and literature. This includes the film versions, serials and scenarios of the masterpieces of literature, literary reviews and criticism in the media, the emergence and impact of best-sellers, interviews with the writers, and the interactivity between readers and writers through electronic media. Students will deepen their understanding of the complex relationships between society, cultures, literature and the media. Through theoretical and practical study, students will enhance and broaden their skillset. Students also will become adept at critical analysis but also gain insight into media production and writing for different genres.

APPROACHES TO ELT II

Course code

ELTE234

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COMPARATIVE NOVEL

Course code

ELLE504

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In this course various novels selected from various literatures will be analyzed. Various critical angles will lie employed as to analyze the novels from many perspectives such as characterization, theme, social and cultural patterns and construction. This course also aims to familiarize students with the main genres and movements, novelists and the novels of American and British Literature; help students analyse and discuss novels in terms of character, theme, plot structure, narration technique, point of view, language and style; compare and contrast two novels; and write an article comparing two novels. The course will focus on novels form different contemporary world literatures.

COMARATIVE DRAMA

Course code

ELLE506

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The works of the dramatist of the same or different periods will be analyzed. The way dramatists use genre and theme in different plays will also be analyzed in this course. This course aims to study the plays by well-known dramatists in English and American Literature and compare various dramatic genres. As a collaborative mode of communication, theatre can take many forms. It can interrogate socio-political issues, cultural preservation or exclusion, present idealized worlds for escapism, offer a highly stimulating sensory experience, or portray familiar stories, characters, and traditions. The student will learn how to select proper drama play for the course.

SCIENCE FICTION FILM AND LITERATURE

Course code

COMM531

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This course aims to teach students to develop an advanced understanding of critical perspectives in science fiction film and literature. In this context this course focuses on critical skills in thinking about the role of science fiction within contemporary societies. From this point of view, the course examines European and American science fiction literature and film traditions with a special emphasis on cyberpunk literature and films

LISTENING AND PRONUNCIATION II

Course code

ELTE106

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ELTE 106 is the continuation of the course ELTE 107. The objective of the course is to enable the students to master the segmental and suprasegmental phonemes, develop their listening skills by working on diverse authentic listening texts. This course will also enable the students to recognise the place and the manner of articulation of the sounds in English. The students will be able to analyse the problematic areas regarding the articulation certain sounds. It also aims to enable the students to develop Standard English as much as possible and to equip them with a strong sensitivity towards different accents of English spoken around the world.

DEVELOPING COURSE CONTENT IN ELT

Course code

ELTE453

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This course aims to train students and prepare them towards materials development and also enable students to acquire skills necessary for evaluating language teaching materials in current textbooks, adapting or developing materials for language teaching according to the changing dynamics in the language classrooms. It also aims at equipping students with the necessary skills to evaluate coursebooks. The course also focuses on familiarising the students with the theory and principles of ELT materials design such as selecting, adapting, developing and evaluating. It gives the students an opportunity to engage in adaptation work. Students are fostered in discussions o related to evaluation of materials and text books used in language classroom settings. Samples of language material and textbook evaluation criteria used in language classrooms are also studied.

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