Academic Catalog

FLE270 CONTRASTIVE TURKISH-ENGLISH

Course Code:	4500270
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	7.0
Department:	Foreign Language Education
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. SULTAN ÇÝÐDEM SAÐIN ÞÝMÞEK
Offered Semester:	Spring Semesters.

Course Content

An introduction to the contrastive analysis of Turkish and English. Comparing English and Turkish with respect to their phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantics systems. Phonetics: Consonants and vowels; word stress. Syntax: the structure of the simple clause; phrase structure; embedding. Semantics: tense, aspect and modality in Turkish and English; the perfective and non-perfective aspect; epistemic and deontic modality.