Turkish Language A1

The course is designed for students who do not have any knowledge of the Turkish language. The Turkish language A1 course is based on the development of reception (listening and reading comprehension), production and interaction (speaking and writing) and mediation (žodžiu ir raštu) skills along with grammar and vocabulary development, using audio-visual material. The course is carried out in Lithuanian, organized in such a way that the students develop awareness of and interest in the Turkish language. The course is based on the plurilingual approach. A blended learning format is applied (lectures, work in the Moodle virtual environment, independent work) along with various active study methods (group and pair work, discussions, text analysis, listening to audio recordings, role-plays etc.).

To develop general competences, communicative language competences (linguistic (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, orthography), sociolinguistic and pragmatic and communicative language activities: production, interaction and mediation (oral and written) at the level A1.

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Topics: 1. Situations: at the university; at the Turkish market; at home; at the airport; at the store; at the doctor's; in a cafe; a tour of Istanbul. Food. Turkish songs. Linguistic topics: Present tense, simple past tense and future tense, present-future tense. Declension, plural forms, and the accusative case of nouns. Verb suffix: -d?r, -dir, -dur, -dür. Imperative mood and subjunctive mood. Verbal noun mek/mak. Interrogative particles. Adverbials of time. Conjunctions -ile; hem…hem/ ne…ne. Personal and possessive pronouns. Adjectival izafet (indefinite word combination) (tren yolu); possessive izafet (definite word combination) (evin kap?s?); adjointment (demir kap?). Adverbial participle; prepositions: kadar, -e kadar/ ne kadar güzel.

1. A student correctly uses grammatical structures, lexical units and pronunciation and intonation patterns appropriate to level A1. 2. A student correctly describes himself/herself and his/her environment; writes a short postcard; fills in simple forms. A student expresses ideas in the form of a monologue and a dialogue according to the course topics. 3. A student reads and understands uncomplicated texts, dialogues, e-mails, postcard texts, simple informative texts; 4. A student communicates in oral and written form in an informal colloquial style. 5. A student understands adapted audio and video recordings the duration of which is approximately 3 minutes, simple instructions, phrases, and commonly used words related to the basic needs.