COURSE SYLLABUS

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

1	Course Title:	SOCIOLINGUISTICS
2	Course Code:	FRN5107
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	Second Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	1
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	-
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. FATMA KAZANOĞLU
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	fkazanoglu@uludag.edu.tr 0.224.294 22 44 U.U. Eğitim Fakültesi Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Bölümü Fransız Dili Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı Görükle kampusü 16059 Bursa
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Improve the student’s knowledge about the basic theories in Linguistics and sociolinguistics; observe the different language use in speech communities, understand the reasons of these variations.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	The course will contribute to the students’ professional development by providing them with the culture, lifestyle, and history of those people who are the native speakers of the language they are to teach. The students are encouraged to be open-minded for different ideas and worldviews.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Understand the relation between society and language, increase familiarity with the principal concepts in sociolinguistics. ;
2	Classify different sociolinguistic theories and concepts. Demonstrate these concepts by providing examples from Turkish and French.;
3	Identify and define language variation in the Turkish and French speech communities. Define language attitudes in these speech communities. ;
4	Recognize how language variation can lead to language change. Describe the factors leading to language change.;
5	Classify and compare phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic differences as they are reflected in language use.;
6	Recognize the connections between special language use and wider social structures.;
7	Demonstrate how cultural and social differences are reflected in the language use.;
8	Acquire field’s knowledge to increase his/her language use. Examine the sociolinguistic studies and methodological tools used in Sociolinguistics critically.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	ntroduction of the course and references related to the course. Defining Sociolinguistics.
2	Relationship between Language and Society
3	Language and social system change.
4	Varieties of language and speech communities
5	Language and dialect: local and social dialects
6	Bilingualism and multilingualism
7	Style and registers: registers and dialects
8	Observing and exploiting patterns. Revision
9	Relationship between language and culture
10	Speaker attitudes, speech acts
11	Politeness strategies
12	Language and gender, language and age, language and education
13	Applied sociolinguistics: Language Policies, Language Planning, French or the French?
14	General evaluation of the course

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Bourdieu, P. (1980) Ce que parler veut dire, Paris: Fayard Goffman E., (1987) Façons de parler, Paris: minuit Labov W. (1976) Sociolinguistique, Paris: Minuit Moreau M.-L., (1997). Sociolinguistique: Les concepts de base. Liège: Mardaga Vermes G., (1988) Vingt-cinq communautés linguistiques en France, Paris: L’Harmattan
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Lecture, discussion, question-answer, texts study methods and techniques are applied in the teaching of the course. Assessment and evaluation: In the measurement and evaluation of the course, the homework during the semester is taken into consideration in addition to the midterm and final exams.
Information	The normative evaluation is applied

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High