CORE202 Pre-Intermediate Academic Spoken EnglishIstanbul Okan UniversityDegree Programs New MediaGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational Qualifications
New Media
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

General course introduction information

Course Code: CORE202
Course Name: Pre-Intermediate Academic Spoken English
Course Semester: Spring
Course Credits:
Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
2 2 3 4
Language of instruction: EN
Course Requisites:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Foreign Language Elective
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Öğr.Gör. ÖZLEM GÖKKURT
Course Lecturer(s): Öğr.Gör. AYKUT GÜLŞAHİN
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: This course aims to help students improve their listening and speaking skills at A2 level.
Course Content: This pre-intermediate course is a follow-up to CORE 201 and it provides students with exposure to audio from a variety of contexts that incorporate useful vocabulary with the purpose of increasing their listening skills. These skills include listening for main points and specific details, identifying opinions and inferences, following sequences, and assessing the audios with critical thinking by asking analytical questions. As for speaking skills, students develop their ability to express opinions, give instructions, maintain conversation, and respond to suggestions.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Learning Outcomes
1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
1) COURSE INTRODUCTION
2) • Listening to understand • Starting, maintain and end a conversation • Introducing yourself and another person
3) • Listening for main points • Using linking words • Explaining an invention to a partner and then discuss it
4) REVISION
5) • Listening for specific details • Using talking points • Examining and present a sharing economy business
6) • Listening to compare • Disagreeing politely • Describing your dream job and compare two jobs
7) REVISION
8) MID-TERM EXAM
9) • Listening for opinions • Expressing an opinion • Presenting an opinion and discuss it in a group
10) "• Listening to infer the meaning of words • Giving instructions • Preparing a set of instructions then present and discuss in a group
11) REVISION
12) • Structuring a presentation • Talking about a new habit and discuss it in a group
13) REVISION
14) • Listening for sequence • Making and respond to suggestion • Discussing an extinction event and share ideas in a panel discussion
15) FINAL WEEK
16) FINAL WEEK
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Lesson Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) COURSE INTRODUCTION Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
2) Listening 1: What Will You Learn? p. 2-8 Listening 3: p.15-19 Focus on Speaking p. 19-20 Final Assignment p. 21 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
3) Listening 1: The Joy of Inventing p. 22-28 Listening 3: p.34-37 Focus on Speaking p. 33 Warm-up Assignment p. 34 " Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
4) REVISION Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
5) Listening 1: The Sharing Economy p. 40-47 Listening 3: p.53-57 Focus on Speaking p. 50 Warm-up Assignment p. 51 Academic Survival skill p.52 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
6) Listening 1: The Sharing Economy p. 58-65 Listening 3: p.71-75 Focus on Speaking p. 70 Warm-up Assignment p.70-71 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
7) REVISION Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
8) MID-TERM EXAM Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
9) Listening 1:Where Will You Live? p. 78-84 Listening 3: p.91-95 Focus on Speaking p. 89-90 Warm-up Assignment p. 90-91 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
10) Listening 1: Earth, Your Home p. 98-105 Listening 3: p.112-115 Focus on Speaking p. 110-111 Warm-up Assignment p. 111-112 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
11) REVISION Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
12) Listening 1: Be a Perfect Human p. 118-126 Listening 3: p.131-135 Focus on Speaking p. 130 Warm-up Assignment p. 131 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
13) REVISION Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
14) Listening 1: The Sixth Extinction p. 138-145 Listening 3: p.15-19 Focus on Speaking p. 149 Warm-up Assignment p. 150 Academic Survival skill p.1150-151 Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
15) FINAL WEEK
16) FİNAL WEEK

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Leap-1 Pre-Intermediate Lıstening Speaking
References: Online materials and worksheets

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

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Program Outcomes
1) 1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way.
2) 1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
3) 1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
4) 1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
5) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
6) 1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) 1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way.
2) 1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
3) 1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
4) 1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
5) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
6) 1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Expression
Individual study and homework
Lesson
Group study and homework
Reading
Homework
Q&A / Discussion
Web Based Learning

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)
Homework

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 2 % 30
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 16 55
Homework Assignments 16 42
Midterms 16 16
Final 16 16
Total Workload 129