Course Code : TKD 103 

Course Name: Turkish Language I

Weekly lecture and application hours of the course: 2-0

Course description: What is language? The place and importance of the language in the life of a nation as a social institution, the relationship between language and culture, the place of the Turkish language among the world languages, the development and historical stages of the Turkish language, the current state of the Turkish language and its spreading areas, sounds in Turkish, the classification of sounds, the sound of Turkish features, syllable knowledge, emphasis, spelling rules, punctuation marks, suffixes, inflection suffixes, use of adverbs and prepositions.

Textbooks and supplementary books:

1- Turkish Language and Composition Information for Universities, Dr. Ali Yakıcı et al., Nobel Publishing.

Course Evaluation:

Participation / Attendance : 10%,

Mid-Term Exam : 30%,

Homework : 10%,

Final Exam : 50%,

Attendance is at least 95 % mandatory.