Institute of Social Sciences

ELT-612 Advanced Research Methods

Students will be able to examine foundational issues of advanced quantitative research techniques; understand what constitutes data and how to analyze them. Students will also learn some software programs (SPSS, AMOS) to be used while analyzing quantitative data.

ELT-629 Critical Appraisal of Language Learning and Teaching

Conceptualizing basic concepts in complex dynamic systems theory. Analyzing and criticizing studies on language learning from complexity perspective

ELT-603 Quality Management in Language Testing and Assessment (QMLTA)

Conceptualizing basic concepts in QMLTA. Analyzing and criticizing studies on QMLTA.

ELT-638 Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems

Students will be able to design and implement research consistent with complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) in social sciences. Students will also use various software programs for various methods. 

ELT-625 Critical Discourse Analysis

The developments in descriptive and applied linguistics; professionalization in the field of ELT to help language teachers keep up-to-date with developments in the field; to give an insight about how texts are structured beyond sentence level.

ELT-631 Contemporary Issues in SLA

This course provide required skills for designing teaching and learning methods and techniques for second and foreign language courses

ELT-636 Psychology of Language Learning

To emphasize the contribution of psychology and psycholinguistics, and other parallel disciplines, to the development of recent thinking in language teaching methodology.

ELT-632 Seminar

This course will help students to polish their existing skills in literary research, writing and citation. They will write the proposal for their  thesis, a conference paper, a literature review, or an academic article

ELT-637 Seminars in Applied Linguistics

To enable participants to gain insight into various concepts and research in the field of applied linguistics.

ELT-679 Language, Mind and Communication

This course examines common questions that arise in the field of linguistics. In particular, what is language, how should it be examined, what is the relationship between language and mind, what kind of relationship does language have with communication. In this course, the answers given by linguists and others to these questions will be shared with the students, so that the students will become familiar with these questions and answers and will be able to think about these topics.

ELT-680 Language Teacher Education and Professional Development

Comprehending the fundamental perspectives and principles related to language teacher education, addressing drawbacks of traditional approaches and updating their understanding through global perspectives.

OSD-655 - Disaster Management

The course includes disaster management, system and structure, disaster management models, intervention practices and examples are examined. The course aims to transfer information about disasters experienced in the world, and to inform the society about disaster management, and enable the development of applications that will raise awareness.

ELT-695 - Doctorate Thesis

In this course, students will be shown the methods that should be applied in writing a thesis (thesis writing plan) and they will be provided with the necessary and correct techniques for their studies. To make students aware of the usage of resources and thesis writing.

ELT-696 - Doctoral Thesis

In this course, students will be shown the methods that should be applied in writing a thesis (thesis writing plan) and they will be provided with the necessary and correct techniques for their studies. To make students aware of the usage of resources and thesis writing.

ELT-697 - Doctoral Thesis

In this course, students will be shown the methods that should be applied in writing a thesis (thesis writing plan) and they will be provided with the necessary and correct techniques for their studies. To make students aware of the usage of resources and thesis writing.

ELT-698 - Doctoral Thesis

In this course, students will be shown the methods that should be applied in writing a thesis (thesis writing plan) and they will be provided with the necessary and correct techniques for their studies. To make students aware of the usage of resources and thesis writing.

ELT-614 - Qualifying examination

The purpose of this writing guide is to ensure that the graduate theses prepared in accordance with Articles 21 and 33 of Çağ University Institute of Social Sciences Graduate Education Regulations are written and published according to certain rules. Candidates and thesis advisors who prepare master's, doctorate and proficiency thesis in the departments of the Social Sciences Institute of Çağ University should act in accordance with the rules in this guide for the defense prepared theses. The guidelines of the American Psychological Association [APA 6] (2010) and the thesis writing rules of the Institute of Social Sciences of Çağ University were used in the preparation of this guide. Abstract, foreword, table of contents, list of tables, list of figures, abbreviations and list of appendices can be found in the Appendix at the end of this manual.