TY  - JOUR
TI  - Views on general knowledge elective courses of ELT departments: Suggested syllabus for diction course
AB  - Turkish Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has updated the curriculums of teaching programmes recently byincreasing the percentage of the elective courses. This change became the focus of this study. The study aims tofind out the four most preferred General Knowledge (GK) elective courses among English language teachers andthe criteria that determine their preferences and to design a syllabus for the most preferred course. It incorporatedtwo phases and in the first phase, mixed method sequential exploratory research design was carried out. Havingreviewed the curriculums of ELT departments of all 45 state universities, the researchers made a document analysison the GK electives and developed a questionnaire which was conducted to 1093 participants online. The datawere analyzed by Microsoft Excel and SPSS 21.0. Mixed method sequential transformative research design wasused in the second phase. Having done a document analysis, a questionnaire was developed, and administered to114 English language teacher educators online. The data were analyzed by Microsoft Excel and SPSS 21.0. Thefindings of the first phase indicated that the four most preferred GK elective courses were ‘Diction’, ‘PresentationSkills’, ‘Human Relations and Communication’ and ‘Language and Culture’, and ‘personal needs and interests’was the most important criterion. From the results of the second phase of the study, 18 topics were specified tosuggest a topic-based syllabus for ‘Diction’. Based on the findings of the study, some implications for ELTPs andfor further research were presented at the end of the study.
AU  - CESUR, Kürşat
AU  - AKBAY, Ahu
DO  - 10.17263/jlls.668465
PY  - 2019
JO  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 1332
EP  - 1354
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/318019
ER  -