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  Course Description
Course Name : Oral and Written Communication Skills I

Course Code : ILT105

Course Type : Compulsory

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 1

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 3

Name of Lecturer(s) : Assoc.Prof.Dr. HATİCE ÇUBUKÇU

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Distinguishes between the specific features of oral and written communication modes.
Explains and applies oral communication techniques such as Politeness Principles (Brown&Levinson).
Identifies different communicative functions that language performs in various contexts and the speech act types realized in that specific context.
Produces oral and written texts that concorde with given contextual variables.
Produces oral and written texts using different techniques such as, description,classification, comparison, cause-effect relationship.
produces visual and verbal texts making use of creative writing techniques.
Speculates on reading passages and shares them in group discussions.
Reports discussions through the written mode.
Identifies features such as coherence, cohesion and unity through a close observation on the texts.
Uses text production strategies based on note-taking while listening and summarizing after reading.

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : This course aims to enable students to express their messages through the oral and/or written medium , by considering i contextual/Pragmatic variables such as the purpose, audience, speaker/writer, and also genre-specific features of the given texts.In line with this, students are expected to internalize concepts vital to text formation, such as Unity, Coherence and Cohesion.

Course Contents : Towards enabling students to gain insight in different communication styles of institutional conversation and everyday talk, various texts and real-life situations will be examined and oral and written texts will be produced. Additionally, a variety of writing techniques such as, classification, descripton, comparison and contrast, cause and effect relationship will be practiced through in and out of classroom applications.

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 -Introduction to the course -Language and communication: verbal7nonveral/extra liguistic features -Comparing oral and written communication Class discussion on the video script
2 -Dictionary meaning/ Communicative meaning -Spacial,temporal,physical context -cognitive context and Information Processing Model Collect recorded natural speech samples group work Analyzing contextual features in communication
3 - What are we doing with words? Speech Acts (Searle, 1962) -5 basic category Recorded conversation samples Role play in small -groups -Peer feed back
4 -Note- taking while listening (a lecture/lesson) -Paragraph analysis -note taking activity tobe reported in the next lesson Classroom practice (realtime notetaking
5 -Narrowing down subject to topic -Pre writing techniques -HW: Sample analyses Group work Paragraph analysis
6 -Setting up the paragraph -Main ideas -Supporting ideas -HW: Writing Sample paragraph Pair work (feedback on the paragraphs)
7 -unity, coherence , cohesion in texts HW: Sample paragraph writing -Pair work
8 -assessing the paragraph HW: Sample paragraph writing -Application
9 MID TERM EXAM
10 -Writing Technique 1: Descriptive essays -Poiteness issues in talk HW: Reading Assignment Principles of Politeness(Brown and Levinson) -Group Discussion -Reporting orally
11 -Writing Technique 2: Comparison and Contrast HW: Reading Text "Right Brain or Left Brain dominance? -Group Discussion -Reporting in writing
12 --Writing Technique 3: Creative writing HW: Reading Text "Body language of writing" Application
13 -Writing Technique 4 :Cause and Effect Rlationship: HW: Reading Text "social fobies" -Group Discussion -Reporting in writing
14 - Portfolio Assessment HW: Completing the Port Folios -Tutorial -Instructor feedback
15 -Assesing Portfolios(CONT.) -REVISION Instructor feedback
16/17 FINAL EXAM SITDOWN EXAM


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  Çubukçu, H. Class notes on oral and written communication skills.
  Ünlü, M.(1994) (Der.)Düşünsel Yazılardan Seçmeler:Kavramlar ve Boyutları İnkılap Yay., İstanbul.
 • Beyreli, Latif, vd. (2010) Yazılı ve Sözlü Anlatım. Pegem Akademi Publications, Ankara
 Çotuksöken, Yusuf (2010) Türkçe Yazılı ve Sözlü Anlatım. Papatya Publishing.
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 85
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 11 15
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Explains the basic concepts of the field, communication patterns, communication and cultural functions within the framework of communication as the basis of Communication Studies. 0
2 Recognizes the national and global communication systems, the basic concepts, theories and principles. 0
3 Has the knowledge and skills to use and/or explain how communication works in every aspect in different cultures, from individual to group, mass, institutional communication within the major tools of communication. 2
4 Distinguishes non-scientific knowledge from the scientific method, and follows technological innovations in the field with the updated work. 0
5 Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve communication problems encountered in size of individual to global communications. 2
6 Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community, leadership and entrepreneurial skills of intellectual exhibitions. 0
7 Holds information related to the fields as a basis; Instrumental Social Communications (Radio, TV, Film, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism) within a terminological frame (=teleological) (Public Sphere, Public Opinion, Cultural Production Areas, Citizen Participation, Popular Culture, etc.). 0
8 From an interdisciplinary perspective, acknowledged the concept of communication to synthesize information that Communication Studies has background from different areas like, Sociology, History, Psychology, Linguistics, Political Sciences, Anthropology and so on. 2
9 As a requirement of competence to communicate effectively, has the ability to express himself/herself up, facing the people with correct understanding in environments in which he/she is capable of empathy sets. 5
10 Has rational thinking skills, creative thinking in written, oral, visual and so on, as well as using the methods and strategies, for the purpose of communicating thoughts. 5
11 Has at least one foreign language in the European Language Portfolio (B) with the level of using the information in track and communicate with colleagues abroad. 0
12 While accessing all kinds of information, using and transmitting of all other thoughts on the process and in all other practices of the profession strives to comply with ethical requirements and endeavors. 0
13 Has basic skills and use these skills for mediating to the general population methods in the specific praxis areas, such as media literacy, 0
14 Identifies learning needs and future career plan and perform accordingly. 0
15 Has the knowledge of the legal framework related to the field. 0
16 Organizes and/or actively participates in the social, artistic and cultural activities, reports events. 3
17 Follows the local, national and international events with critical comments. 0
18 Is competent to use required level of knowledge of the area and use of computer software as well as all means of communication (body language, verbal and nonverbal communication, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema, internet and other information / communication technologies, and mass media) 2
19 Is able to work in the group as well as having the competence of the individual work 3
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 2 28
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 11 1 11
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 2 2
    Final Exam 1 2 2
Total Workload: 71
Total Workload / 25 (h): 2.84
ECTS Credit: 3