The Department has been active since 1972, and is the only linguistic department where the medium of instruction is English. The basic aim of the Department is to develop linguistic studies in Turkiye within a scientific framework, to encourage descriptive studies on Turkish and English, and to contribute to applied linguistics and to studies on foreign language teaching and learning in Turkiye. The Department has also pioneered many studies in linguistics in the country. The courses of the programme have been updated in accordance with the new scientific developments in order to meet the needs of the society. The courses balance the acquisition and development of advanced language skills, literature and linguistics.
Teaching is by a combination of lectures, classes, workshops and fieldwork presentations.
Assessment is by coursework and examinations. Those who have teaching certificates can be employed as foreign language teachers in various educational institutions. Further Study There are MA and PhD programmes in Linguistics.