{"id":1789,"date":"2026-01-05T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/?post_type=project&#038;p=1789"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:58:13","slug":"sinema-tutkusu-turkish-language-and-culture-through-film","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/project\/sinema-tutkusu-turkish-language-and-culture-through-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinema Tutkusu: Turkish Language and Culture through Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Sinema Tutkusu: Turkish Language and Culture through Film<\/em> is a communicative OER textbook that uses engaging, authentic cultural materials &#8212; feature films from T\u00fcrkiye. Advanced learners and their instructors may use for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime. Each of the ten chapters in <em>Sinema Tutkusu<\/em> focuses on a critically acclaimed film that will appeal to the interests of adult learners with Advanced Low-to-Mid proficiency in Turkish and increase their understanding of historical and contemporary Turkish-speaking culture. The lessons integrate viewing, listening and reading comprehension, writing and speaking practice, grammar, vocabulary and cultural activities. Designed for today&#8217;s student, <em>Sinema Tutkusu<\/em> is more than just a textbook\u2014it is a space in which students can \u2018meet\u2019 the people of T\u00fcrkiye through the big screen and experience Turkish language and culture as it is performed in context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Haz\u0131rlanal\u0131m<\/em> und <em>Arka Plan<\/em> sections provide pre-viewing exercises that prepare students for a positive and effective viewing experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scene studies allow learners to deal closely with each film through didacticized clips with pre, during and post viewing activities.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Readings \u2013 ranging from film reviews, criticism and interviews to poems, speeches and songs \u2013 relate thematically to each film.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking and writing activities invite learners to think critically about each film\u2019s genre, themes and cinematic style and to actively synthesize the film\u2019s linguistic and cultural content.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Film-derived grammar exercises provide learners with a thorough advanced grammar trajectory while facilitating practice of key grammar in context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ten appealing films are easily available (links to view the films online or purchase them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sinema Tutkusu<\/em> introduces different approaches to studying cinema, while also providing learners with the tools to achieve Advanced High (or even Superior) proficiency in modern Turkish. Learners will watch and analyze a wide range of films, including popular, arthouse, auteur-made, generic, and independent works, and examine the reception of those films. Learners will discuss the socio-political contexts, industrial trends, aesthetic sensitivities and representation strategies of selected films to  determine what constitutes Turkish cinema as a \u2018national cinema\u2019 and identify the ways in which its constitutive elements are part of transnational movements. By constantly reformulating the essential question of \u201cwhat Turkish cinema is,\u201d <em>Sinema Tutkusu<\/em> prompts learners to seek to understand how Turkey\u2019s filmmakers, critics, cultural policymakers, and viewers have answered this question in different historical periods, and how they themselves might answer it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is designed as a set of ten modules that can be completed in part or in full, depending on the interests and needs of the learners and their instructors.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"grant":[72],"class_list":["post-1789","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","grant-ut-austin-oer"],"acf":{"project_directors":[{"project_director_name":"Dr. Jeannette Okur","project_director_link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/mes\/faculty\/jo8346"}],"partners":[{"partner_name":"UT Austin Department of Middle Eastern Studies","partner_link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/mes\/"}],"start_year":2025,"end_year":"","link":"","project_resources":null,"related_oer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grant","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grant?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}