Here you can see the detailed descriptions of the Linguistics/Psycholinguistics related courses I have taken both from the Foreign Language Education and Psychology Departments at the Middle East Technical University.
| Course name | Instructor | ECTS Credit | Course Requirements & Department | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LINGUISTICS I | Prof. Dr. Duygu Özge | 4,5 | Must Course (FLE) | This course is designed to help students have a general understanding of what language is, how language has been approached by different scholars, what the universals of language are, how languages diverge from each other structurally, how sign language contributes to the explanation of language universals, what the differences between animal communication and human languages are, how internal structures and rules that apply to these structures of words work, the relationship between brain and language, what linguistic sounds are and how those sounds differ across languages. |
| LINGUISTICS II | Prof. Dr. Martina Gračanin Yüksek | 4,5 | Must Course (FLE) | This course is designed to help students understand the process of language acquisition, the connection between language acquisition theories and language teaching methods, and the functioning of language in society, as well as help students understand and analyse linguistic data and gain a firm understanding of four sub-areas of formal linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. |
| LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | Prof.Dr. Sultan Çiğdem Sağın Şimşek | 5,0 | Must Course (FLE) | This course is designed to teach theories, comparison, and illustration of native and foreign languages; stages of language development and acquisition; learning grammar and other components of language; models of foreign language learning; learner characteristics; using language and learning stages and processes in the teaching of a foreign language. |
| ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM | Prof. Dr. Bilal Kırkıcı & Prof. Dr. Hale Işık Güler | 5,0 | Must Course (FLE) | This course aims to introduce students to various aspects of multilingualism with a cross-disciplinary perspective. The course includes linguistic, cognitive, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of bi-/multilingualism. Some of the topics covered are the definition and development of multilingualism, linguistic behaviours of multilinguals, the psycholinguistic and cognitive bases of multilingualism, societal multilingualism, language maintenance and loss, and multilingual identity. |
| CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTICS | Prof. Dr. Bilal Kırkıcı | 5,0 | Must Course (FLE) | In this course, we survey a selection of current issues at the interface of psycholinguistics, language learning and educational inquiry. We deal with issues surrounding language learning broadly defined. Building on previous introductory courses in Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Language Teaching Methodology, the course focuses on a selection of state-of-the-art research. We will familiarize ourselves with a number of burning questions in the field(s) as well as recent studies tackling these questions. |
| INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülay Cedden | 4,5 | Elective Course (FLE) | The purpose of this course is to provide a general orientation in Cognitive Linguistics, an understanding of its central themes and assumptions, and exposure to its empirical methods.We discuss main issues in cognitive linguistics and some of the many connections that exist between linguistics and human cognition. The goal of this course is to lead students to a cognitive approach to the study of language and to the exploration of the relationship between linguistic structure, thought and the nature of embodied human experience. The following issues are the topics that are discussed: Language, Language and the Brain, Language Acquisition, the Mental Lexicon, and the Representation of Language in the Mind |
| LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY | Assist. Prof. Dr. E. Eda Işık | 4,5 | Elective Course (FLE) | This course explores the relationship between language and society. It addresses questions such as why people use language differently in different social roles and situations, and aims to explain how they express social meaning and signal aspects of our social and cultural identity through language. |
| INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX | Prof. Dr. Martina Gračanin Yüksek | 5,0 | Elective Course (FLE) | The class puts an emphasis on a scientific approach to exploring human language. The students familiarize themselves with the basics of the contemporary syntactic theory. These comprize: constituency, the structure of phrases (Phrase Structure Rules, heads, complements, specifiers), the basics of syntactic movement. Basic notions of generative syntax within the framework of Principles and Parameters and Minimalist program. The course will enable students to work with linguistic data from a variety of languages, including but not restricted to English, make generalizations over the data, form hypotheses that can explain the generalizations, and test the hypotheses on more data in order to reach a (tentative) conclusion. |
| DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Başak Şahin-Acar | 6,0 | Elective Course (PSY) | This course provides information on various approaches to human development emphasizing the relevant research findings in this area with special reference to psycho-motor, mental, emotional and social development from birth through adolescence. |
| COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT | Assist. Prof. Dilay Z. Karadöller | 7,0 | Elective Course (PSY) | In this course, we examined how infants acquire knowledge about the world from a developmental perspective. First, we examined the main developmental theories on cognitive development. Later, we focused on several major topics in cognitive development (e.g., perceptual development, conceptual development, memory, language, spatial cognition). |
| COGNITION | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslı Kılıç Özhan | 7.0 | Elective Course (PSY) | A survey course built upon the experimental cognitive approach to human information processing. Topics to be covered include sensory memory, attention, pattern recognition, short-term storage and processing, non-acoustic coding and forgetting in short-term memory. |