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Course Description Course Name : Seminars in Psycholinguistics Course Code : ELT 751 Course Type : Optional Level of Course : Sub-Level (Undergraduate Degree) Year of Study : 1 Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks) ECTS : 6 Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. HATİCE SOFU Learning Outcomes of the Course : Discusses the relation between language and mind. Adapts information about how brain comprehends, processes, stores, and recalls when needed to language teaching. Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : OPTIONAL COURSES Recommended Optional Programme Components : None Aim(s) of Course : Psycholinguistics asks five basic questions: how is language acquired? how is it perceived? how is it processed? how is it stored? and how is it recalled? Among these questions, how the language is acquired is the subject of a separate course in the program. For that reason, four of these questions make up the basic content of this course. Students explore the relation between language and mind and the answers to the basic questions by discussing studies in the field. additionally, how information acquired in the course is going to be used in language teaching is one of the aims of this course. Course Contents : the content of the course is: structure of brain, the parts of the brain we use in language processing, memory, organization of long term memory, schemas in our brain and how we make use of them in language teaching Language of Instruction : English Work Place : Classroom   Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods 1 Basic issues in psycholinguistics Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 2 Principles of linguistics Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 3 Information processing system memory Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 4 Language Perception Perception of isolated speech Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 5 Perception of continuous speech Perception of written language Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 6 Word knowledge Organization of the internal lexicon Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 7 Sentence comprehension and memory Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 8 Midterm 9 Discourse comprehension and memory Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 10 Schemata and discourse processing Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 11 Production of speech and language Sign language Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 12 Conversational interaction Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 13 Brain and language Evolution of language Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 14 Language, culture and cognition Whorf Hypothesis Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 15 Lexical and grammatical influences on cognition Reading the related book chapters Reading and class discussion 16/17 Final   Required Course Resources Resource Type Resource Name Recommended Course Material(s)  Gentner,D. & Goldin-Meadow, S. 2003. Language in Mind. London:MIT Press  Carroll, D. W. 2008 Psycholinguisitcs. Belmont: Thomson Higher Education Required Course Material(s)   Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage     Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 50     Homeworks/Projects/Others 2 50 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 Creates more productive classroom environment through in-class research and solve problems. 0 2 Uses their awareness of affective factors in classroom environment to create more productive educational environment. 4 3 Uses theories about culture in second language teaching. 5 4 Creates teaching syllabus and evaluate it. 0 5 Benefits from first language acquisition theories in their practices. 4 6 Reflect their knowledge about research methods in their thesis proposals and thesis writings. 5 7 Knows and applies language teaching methods. 4 8 Benefits from language teaching methods in specific purposes in classroom environment. 0 * 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) 13 3 39     Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 13 2 26 Assesment Related Works     Homeworks, Projects, Others 2 25 50     Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 10 10     Final Exam 1 20 20 Total Workload: 145 Total Workload / 25 (h): 5.8 ECTS Credit: 6