On successful completion of this course, students will be able to

(1) use linguistic terms and concepts related to discourse, semantics and syntax appropriately where/when necessary

(2) successfully describe and categorise the main topics that native speakers (NS) of Turkish have difficulties with while learning English

(3) discuss the importance of material and topic selection for the successful teaching of discourse, semantics and syntax to groups of NS of Turkish learning English with various profiles

(4) describe in detail the relationship between the lexicon, morpho-syntax and discourse of English and Turkish

(5) list the features of various word categories in English and apply this knowledge during the analysis of various texts written in Turkish and English

(6) compare and contrast the use of various groups of cohesive devices in English

(7) summarize accessibility hierarchy and prepare teaching materials and methods that will facilitate the teaching of relative clauses in English to NS of Turkish

(8) infer the difficulties that NS of Turkish will experience while learning motion verbs in English

(9) prepare teaching materials and techniques that will help NS of Turkish while learning motion verbs in English

(10) discriminate the sub-categories of unaccusative and unergative verbs in Turkish and English

(11) produce ‘discursively’ correct texts in English because of the increased awareness of the semantics and syntax of English