THIRUVALLUVAR
UNIVERSITY
BACHELOR OF
ARTS
B.A. ENGLISH
DEGREE
COURSE
CBCS PATTERN
(With effect from 2017-2018)
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SEMESTER-I
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Paper -1 - INDIAN WRITING IN
ENGLISH
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UNIT I: POETRY
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1.
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Sarojini Naidu:
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Love and Death
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2.
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Jayanta Mahapatra:
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Evening Landscape by the River
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3.
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Rabindranath Tagore:
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Lyric No.
LXXIII (from Gitanjali)
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4.
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Toru Dutt:
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Our Casuarina Tree
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References:
1. Indian
Yarns: An Anthology of Indian English Writing. Cambridge University Press,
2013.
2. Tagore,
Rabindranath. Gitanjali. Wellesley: branden Books, 2000
3. Ramaswamy,S.
Commentaries on Commonwealth Poetry and Drama. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1994.
UNIT II: PROSE
1.Jawaharlal Nehru:
2.. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Shashi Tharoor:
A
Tryst with Destiny
Realization
of the Infinite
Ajanta and Ellora in the Monsoon
References:
1.
Indian Yarns: An Anthology of Indian
English Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
2.
Dutta, Krishna. Ed. Rabindranath
Tagore: An Anthology. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
UNIT III: SHORT STORIES
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1.
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Ruskin Bond
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The Eyes Have it
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2.
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Anita Desai
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A Devoted Son
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UNIT IV: DRAMA
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1.
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Girish Karnad
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The Fire and
the Rain
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References:
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Karnad, Girish, The Fire and the
Rain New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
UNIT V: FICTION
1. R.K.
Narayan The
Bachelor of Arts
SEMESTER I
PAPER – 2 -
ADVANCED ENGLISH GRAMMAR
UNIT I
Introduction to Modern English
grammar
Sentences – various types of sentence – simple – compound –
complex – declaratives – interrogatives – imperatives – exclamatives.
Basic sentence patterns in English - constituents of
sentences – subject – verb - object - complement - adverbials.
UNIT II
Clauses - main and subordinate
clauses - noun clauses - relative clauses - adverbial clauses - finite and
non-finite clauses - analysis and conversion of sentences – Active to Passive
and vice versa – Direct to Indirect and vice versa – Degrees of Comparison, one
form to the other.
UNIT III
Phrases - various types of
phrases - noun, verb, adjectival and prepositional phrases.
Words - parts of speech – nouns – pronouns – adjectives -
verbs - adverbs – prepositions – conjunctions - determinatives.
UNIT IV
Nouns - different types - count and
uncount – collective - mass - case - number –
gender.
Pronoun - different types -
personal, reflexive - infinite-emphatic – reciprocal.
Adjectives
- predicative - attributive - pre- and post-modification of nouns. Verbs -
tense-aspect - voice -mood - Concord - types of verbs – transitive –
intransitive finite – non-infinite.
Helping verbs and modal auxiliaries
- function and use.
UNIT V
Adverbs
- different types - various functions - modifying and connective. Prepositions
- different types - syntactic occurrences - prepositional phrases - adverbial
function.
Conjunctions
- subordinating and coordinating Determinatives articles - possessives – quantifiers
Same
words used as different parts of speech – Words followed by appropriate
prepositions.
Books for Study and Reference:
A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students. Publisher: Macmillan.
Author: F T Wood
Carter,
Ronald and Michael McCarthy.Cambridge Grammar of English.CUP, 2006.
Greenbaum,
Sidney. Oxford English Grammar.Indian Edition.Oxford University Press, 2005.
SEMESTER I
ALLIED - 1 -
PAPER - 1 - LITERARY FORMS AND TERMS
UNIT I : PROSE
1.
The Essay
2. The Short
Story
3. Biography
4. Autobiography
UNIT II : POETRY
1.
The Lyric
2.
The Sonnet
3. The Elegy
4. The Epic
5.
The Ode
6. The Ballad
UNIT III : DRAMA
1.
Comedy
2. Tragedy
& Tragic Comedy
3. One-act play
4.
Mystery and Miracle Play
5. The Absurd
Drama
6.
Monologue
UNIT IV: NOVEL
1. Historical
Novel
2. Psychological
Novel
3. Stream
of consciousness Novel
4. Realistic
Novel
5. Science
Fiction
UNIT V: LITERARY TERMS
Poetry:
Simile, Metaphor, Allusion, Rhyme, Oxymoron, Blank-Verse, Symbolism
Drama: Soliloquy,
Climax and Anti-climax, Unity of Time, Place and Action
Prose:
Allegory, Didacticism, Fable, Satire, Irony
Books for Study and Reference:
Prescribed
text – A Glossary of Literary Terms. M.H. Abrams – Macmillan Publishers India
Ltd. (Trinity -Laxmi Publications, Chennai)
Prasad, Birjadish. A
Background to the Study of
English Literature. Chennai:
Macmillan India
Press, 2007.Print.
Baldick, Chris. The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of
Literary Terms, Delhi:
OUP,
1990
SEMESTER II
PAPER – 3 – BRITISH LITERATURE I
Objectives:
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To enable the learners to appreciate
the versatility and knowledge of the Elizabethan age.
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To enable the students to understand
the history and the growth of English Literature.
UNIT I: POETRY (Detailed Study)
Geoffrey Chaucer
: The
Prologue to Canterbury Tales:
Whan that april with his shoures
soote….And eek in what array that
they
were inne; (1-41lines)
Edmund Spenser
the Strand
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Sonnet 75: One Day I Wrote Her Name upon
UNIT II : PROSE (Detailed Study)
Francis Bacon
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of Adversity, of Beauty, of Honour and Reputation
UNIT III : DRAMA (Detailed Study)
Christopher Marlowe
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Dr. Faustus
UNIT IV : POETRY (Non-Detailed
Study)
John Donne
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The Good Morrow
George Herbert
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The Pulley
UNIT V : DRAMA (Non-Detailed Study)
Ben Jonson
: Every Man
in His Humour
Books for Study and Reference:
Greenblat,
Stephen Ed.The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol B,16th and
early 16th century, W.W Norton
&Company, Inc., 9th
Edition.2012
Marlowe,
Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.Ed Roma Gill, New
Delhi, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. 2015
Dave,
Smita., Christopher Marlowe. New Delhi, Arnold Heinemann publishers
(India) Private Limited.1974.
Jump,
John., Marlowe: Doctor Faustus. New York , Palgrave Macmillian. 2007
Ellis-Fermor,
Una., The Jacobean Drama, London, University Paperbacks.1969
Web Resources
Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and
Fiction:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/works.html
SEMESTER II
PAPER– 4 - AMERICAN LITERATURE-I
UNIT I- POETRY (Detailed)
Whitman
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One’s Self I Sing
E.A. Poe
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To Helen
Emily Dickinson
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I taste a liquor never Brewed
UNIT II- POETRY (Non- Detailed)
Carl Sandburg
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
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Happiness
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Mending Wall
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The Rest
UNIT III- PROSE (Detailed)
Emerson : The American
Scholar
UNIT IV- DRAMA (Detailed)
Eugene O’Neil
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The Hairy Ape
UNIT V- FICTION (Non- Detailed)
Herman Melville
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Moby Dick (The Whale)
Books for Study and Reference:
Fisher,
William J., H. Willard Reninger, Ralph Samuelson, and K. B. Vaid. An Anthology
American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. S. Chand & Company
Ltd. New Delhi, 1955. Print.
Oliver,
Egbert S. An Anthology of American Literature 1890-1965.S.Chand &
Company Ltd. New Delhi, 1967. Print.
Melville, Herman. Moby- Dick.
Harper & Brothers Publishers. London, 1851.
Print.
SEMESTER II
ALLIED - 1 -
PAPER - 2 – THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
UNIT I
1. Tudor
England (1485 to 1603)
2. The
Renaissance
3. The
Reformation and the Counter Reformation
UNIT II
1. Puritanism
2. Restoration
England (1660 to 1688): Social Life
3. The Age of
Queen Anne (1702 to 1714)
4. The
Industrial Revolution and the Agrarian Revolution
UNIT III
1. The effects
of the French Revolution on British Life.
2. The
Victorian Age (1837 to 1901)
3. The Reform
Bills
UNIT IV
1. The Dawn of
Twentieth Century
2. Life Between
the Two World wars (1919 to 1939)
3. The effects
of World War II and the Cold War
4. Life in the
Sixties.
UNIT V
1. Life in the
Seventies
2. Life in the
Eighties
3. The Origin
and Growth of Political Parties in England
4. Contemporary
Life in England.
Prescribed text
Padmaja Ashok. The Social History of
England . Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd.
SEMESTER III
PAPER –5–
BRITISH LITERATURE II
Objectives:
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To expose the students to the Neo-classical tradition in
literature
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To enable them to explore the remarkable changes in literary
forms
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To train them to comprehend the
trends in the literary expression of the period
UNIT I : POETRY (Detailed Study)
John Milton
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Paradise Lost Book IV: (Lines 131-287)
So on he fares, and to the border
comes…Of
living creatures, new to sight and
strange
Thomas Gray
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake
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The Tyger
UNIT II :
Prose (Detailed Study)
Samuel Johnson
: Preface to Shakespeare: His histories, being neither
tragedies nor comedies… are to copy nature and instruct life (extract)
Drama (Detailed Study)
Oliver Goldsmith
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She Stoops to Conquer
UNIT III : POETRY (Non-Detailed
Study)
Andrew Marwell
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On a Drop of Dew
John Dryden
: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
UNIT IV: PROSE (Non-Detailed Study)
Joseph Addison
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1. Popular Superstitions
2. Will wimble Selections from ‘The
Spectator’
UNIT V: FICTION (Non-Detailed Study)
Jonathan
Swift : Gulliver’s
Travels
Books for Study and Reference:
Lynn,
Mary Johnson Ed., John E. Grant. Blake’s Poetry and Designs. Norton
Critical Edition. 2004.
Defoe,
Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. Ed.Pramod K.Nayar.Hyderbad,Orient
BlackSwan.2011
Ellis, Frank H. Twentieth Century
Interpretations of Robinson Crusoe.
Spectrum Book. 1969.
Grierson, HJC. Metaphysical
Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century.
Oxford University. 1972.
The
Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Restoration and the Eighteenth
Century. Norton. 1962.
Web Resources
Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and
Fiction:
SEMESTER III
PAPER –6 – AMERICAN LITERATURE-II
UNIT I-POETRY (Detailed)
E.E.Cummings
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Among Crumbling People
Wallace Stevens
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Anecdote of a Jar
Sylvia Plath
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Mirror
UNIT II- POETRY (Non-Detailed)
William Carlos William : The Yachts
Hart Crane
: from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge
John Crowe Ransom
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Bells For John
Whiteside’s
Daughter
UNIT III- PROSE
Robert Frost
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The Figure a Poem Makes
UNIT IV- DRAMA (Detailed)
Tennessee Williams : The Glass
Menagerie
UNIT V- FICTION (Non -Detailed)
Ernest
Hemingway : The Snows
of Kilimanjaro
Books for Study and Reference:
1. Oliver,
Egbert S. An Anthology of American Literature 1890-1965.S.Chand &
Company Ltd. New Delhi, 1967. Print.
2. Thomas, C.T,
Ed.Twentieth Century Verse An Anglo-American
Anthology.Macmillan
Publisher India Ltd. Reprinted 2009.
SEMESTER III
ALLIED 2 –
PAPER 3 -HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I
UNIT I:
The
Age of Chaucer - Chapters II & III UNIT II:
The Development of Drama - Chapters
IV & V
UNIT III:
The Age of Shakespeare- Chapters VI,
VII & VIII
UNIT IV:
The Age of Milton - Chapters IX
& X
UNIT V:
The Age of Dryden -Chapters XI &
XII
Prescribed Book: W.H. Hudson:
An Outline History of English Literature
Reference: History of
English Literature Author: Edward Albert
SEMESTER III
SKILL BASED SUBJECT - PAPER 1 -
SKILL FOR EMPLOYMENT I
UNIT - I
Oral Communication Skills Listening
& Hearing, Barriers to Everyday Listening
UNIT - II
Workplace Listening, Documentation
UNIT - III
Written Communication skills
UNIT - IV
Reading, Barriers, Reading
Strategies
UNIT - V
Ability
to Read & follow instructions, giving and Receiving Instructions,
Directions, Language of Instructions Transcoding Information graphic
Communication, Charts, Tables & Transcoding
Books for Study and Reference:
Communication and soft skills: SP
Dhanavel. Orient Blackswan
English & Soft skills: SP
Dhanavel. Orient black swan.2010
Essential English : E. Suresh kumar
P.Sreehari J. Savithri.2010
G
M Sundaravalli, A S Kamalakar, P Kusuma Harinath. Communication and Softskills
Vol 1: Orient Blackswan, 2015
English for Competitive
examinations: Manamohan Bhatnagar.
SEMESTER III
NON-MAJOR
ELECTIVE - PAPER 1 -
LANGUAGE
SKILLS AND COMMUNICATION I
(for other
departments)
UNIT - I
1. Meeting
people
2. Exchanging
greetings
3. Introducing,
others, giving personal information, taking about people animals and places
UNIT - II
1.
Answering telephone, asking for someone
2.
Making enquiries on the phone
3.
Dealing with wrong number
4.
Taking and leaving messages
Books for Study and Reference:
Mastering communication skills and
soft skills
N.Krishnaswamy, Manju Dariwal,
Lalitha Krishnaswamy(Bloomsbury)
SEMESTER IV
PAPER - 7 -
BRITISH LITERATURE III
Objectives:
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To understand the roots of Romantic Literature.
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To familiarize the students with the
outstanding writers of the period.
UNIT I: POETRY (Detailed Study)
William Wordsworth
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I Wander Lonely as a Cloud
S. T. Coleridge
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Time, Real and Imaginary
John Keats
: Ode to Autumn
Percy Bysshe Shelly
:
Ode to a Skylark
UNIT II: PROSE
Charles Lamb
: Poor
Relations
William Hazlitt
: On going a
Journey
UNIT III: POETRY (Non-Detailed)
Lord Byron
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She Walks in Beauty
Robert Burns
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A Red Red Rose
UNIT IV: FICTION
Jane Austen
:
Pride and Prejudice
UNIT V: FICTION
Walter Scott
:
Ivanhoe
Books for Study and Reference:
Nayar,
k Pramod. The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology. Orient Blackswa.
2013
Ed. Hollingworth. Essays: Hazlitt.
University Tutorial Press Limited.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
J.M. Dent and Sons Limited. 1977.
Plowman, Max. An Introduction to the Study of William
Blake. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors. New Delhi. 1994.
Gill,
Stephen. Ed., WU, Duncan. William Wordsworth Selected Poetry. Oxford
University Press. New York. 2008.
Blunden,
Edmund. Ed., Selected Poems John Keats. Rupa Publications India Private
Limited. New Delhi. 2011.
Jump. D. John, Byron.
Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. U.S.A. 1972.
Bloom,
Harold. Ed., Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Viva Books Private
Limited. New Delhi. 2010.
Web Resources
Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and
Fiction:
SEMESTER IV
PAPER 8 -
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
UNIT I
Origin of English Language
General Characteristics of the
Origin of English language
Indo European family
UNIT II
Shakespeare’s Contribution to the
Growth of English Language.
Milton’s Contribution to the Growth
of English Language
UNIT III
The Pronunciation, Spelling &
Vocabulary Development
Role of Dictionary in the Marking of
English language
Change of Meaning
UNIT IV
Growth
of English Vocabulary loan words in Latin, French, Greece and Indian The
Contribution of foreign Languages to English
UNIT V
Differences between British English and American English The
Evolution of Standard English
Prescribed Text:
Outline
History of English Language C.L.Wren. Macmillian J.D.O’ Connor. Better English
in pronunciation (second edition) .Cambridge
Reference:
F.T.
Wood: An Outline History of English Language. Delhi, Macmillan India Limited,
1969.
Krishnaswamy. N. Verma, S.K.
Nagarajan. M. Modern Applied Linguistics.
Chennai, Macmillan Limited, 2000.
Cruttenden,
Alan. Gimson’s Pronunciation of English. London, Oxford University Press, 2001.
AC.Baugh. History of English
Language
Lalitha
Ramamoorthy : A History of English Language & Elements of Phonetics, Macmillan.
Baugh,
Albert. C. Cable, Thomas. A History of The English Language. Delhi,
Routledge,2000.
Crystal, David. Linguistics. Great
Britain, Richard Clay Ltd, 1985
SEMESTER IV
ALLIED 2- PAPER 4 – HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II UNIT 1:
The
Age of Pope - Chapters XIII & XIV UNIT II:
The
Age of Johnson - Chapters XV - XVII UNIT III:
The Age of Wordsworth - Chapters
XVIII - XXI
UNIT IV:
The Age of Tennyson - Chapters XXII
& XXIV
UNIT V:
The Age of Hardy & the Present
Age -Chapters XXV & XXVII
Prescribed Book: W.H.
Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature
Reference: Edward
Albert: History of English Literature
SEMESTER IV
SKILL BASED
SUBJECT - PAPER 2
SKILL FOR
EMPLOYMENT II
UNIT -I
Interpersonal Communication
UNIT -II
Information collection - telephone
conversation
Encoding & Decoding strategies
UNIT -III
Communication
with Employees - Supervisors and customers Employment Communication goal
setting, Written, Spelling & Grammar
UNIT -IV
Job Application and Interview, covering letter, Resume,
Interview, Frequently asked Questions
Model Interview
UNIT -V
Polite Behavior in Communication
The
Importance of being courteous – Politeness - Body Language - facial language -
Eye contact
Books for Study and Reference:
S.P. Dhanavel. Communication and
Soft skills. Mainspring Publishers
SEMESTER IV
NON-MAJOR
ELECTIVE - PAPER 2 –
LANGUAGE
SKILLS AND COMMUNICATION II
(for other
departments)
UNIT I
1.
Getting people’s attention and interrupting
2.
Giving instructions and seeking clarification
3.
Making requests, Asking for direction and giving directions
UNIT II
1.
Inviting, Accepting and refusing invitation
2.
Apologising and responding to an apology
3.
Congratulating and responding to congratulations
4.
Asking for, Giving and refusing permission
Prescribed Text: Kamlesh
Sadan and and Susheela Punitha. Spoken English:
A Foundation Course (Part I). Orient
black swan.2014
SEMESTER V
PAPER 9 --
BRITISH LITERATURE IV
Objectives
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To enable students to analyse
literary works through careful study of the Victorian Age.
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To integrate critical sources effectively into their
analysis of literature.
Unit I : Poetry (Detailed Study)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The Lady of Shalott –
Part I
Robert Browning
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Memorabilia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The Blessed Damozel
Unit II : Poetry (Non-Detailed
study)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Ulysses
Gerard Manley Hopkins
:
God’s Grandeur
Christina Rossetti
:
Remember
Unit III : Prose (Detailed study)
John Henry Newman
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The Idea of a University -
If I were asked to describe as briefly and popularly as I
could,… how the “gentlemanlike” can otherwise be maintained; and maintained in
this way it is.(extract)
Unit IV : Drama
(Detailed study)
Oscar Wilde
:
Lady Windermere’s Fan
(Non-Detailed study)
George Bernard Shaw
:
Arms and the Man
Unit V : Fiction (Non-Detailed
study)
Thomas Hardy
:
Far from the Madding Crowd
Charles Dickens
:
Oliver Twist
Books for Study and Reference
Gilbert, J. Garraghan S. J. Prose Types in Newman. New York:
Schwartz, Kirwin & Faussi.
Hill, Robert W. Jr. Tennyson’s
Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2010.
Print.
Sen, S. G. M. Hopkins: Selected
poems. New Delhi: Unique Publishers, 2008.
Print.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of
being Earnest and Other Plays. United States:
OPU, 2008. Print
Steane, J. B. Literature in Perspective: Tennyson. London:
Evans Brothers Limited.
Web Resources
Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and
Fiction:
SEMESTER V
PAPER 10 -
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
UNIT I
The Origins of Language
The Development of Writing
Introduction to sounds
Words Stress, Strong & weak forms
Sentences stress & intonation,
Voice Modulation
UNIT II
The properties of Language
Morphology
Communication process barriers to
Communication
Group talk
UNIT III
Phrases and sentence: grammar syntax
Grammar
UNIT IV
Semantics: Language & Mechanics
Non- Verbal Presentation skills
public speaking & presentation skills
UNIT V
Language Varieties
Language, Society and Culture
Preparing for Interview
Books for Study and Reference:
George Yule: The Study of Language .
Cambridge University Press. 1996
John Lyons: Language and
linguistics: An Introduction. (Cambridge)
Spring Board to success: Sharada
Kaushik Bindu Bajwa. Orient black swan.2011
SEMESTER V
PAPER 11 -
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM
UNIT I
1. PLATO
Age and Works – View of Art – Attack on Poetry – The
Function of Poetry – Comments on Drama – Observations on Style
2. ARISTOTLE
Critical Works and their Nature – The Plan of Poetics –
Observations on Poetry – Observations on Tragedy
UNIT II
1. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
The Writer and his Work - The
‘Argument’ of his Book – Respect for Rules
2. BEN JONSON
The
Critic and his Work – Classicism – The Qualifications of a Poet – Observations
on Style
UNIT III
1. JOHN DRYDEN
Critical
Works – The Nature of Poetry – The Function of Poetry – Dramatic Poetry
2. ALEXANDER POPE
Critical
Work – Classicism – On the Function of Criticism – Remarks on Literature
UNIT IV
1. W. WORDSWORTH
The
occasion and Limitations of his Critical Work – concept of poetic diction -
Concept of Poetry
2. S. T. COLERIDGE
The Nature of his Critical Work
– Theory of Imagination
UNIT V:
1. MATTHEW ARNOLD
Critical Works – Criticism on Poetry
– On Criticism
2. T. S. ELIOT
Classicism – True Criticism –
Impersonality of Poetry – Other Concepts
Prescribed Book:
B.
Prasad. An Introduction to English Criticism. Macmillan. (Trinity:Laxmi
Publications).2014
Books for study and Reference
S.Ramaswami
V.S.Sethuraman .The English Critical Tradition. An Anthology of English Literary
Criticism (Volume I&II)
SEMESTER V
PAPER -12- INDIAN LITERATURE IN
TRANSLATION
UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION
1. Survey of
the History, Growth and role of Translation in India
2. Key concepts
in Translation
From Wordworlds: Translation and
Communication
UNIT II: POETRY
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Subramania Bharati
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: Wind,9 (113)
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2.
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Chemmanam Chacko
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: Rice (148-149)
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3.
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Jyoti Lanjewar
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: I Never Saw You (171-175
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4.
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Gaddar
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: It Will Not Stop
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5.
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Sahir Ludhianvi
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: Let’s Weave a Dream
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UNIT III: PROSE
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1.
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Rassundari Devi
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: Amar Jiban (My Life)The sixth
composition (199-
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202)
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2.
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A.K.Ramanujan
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: Telling
Tales: Tales have Relatives all over the word
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Pg 456-462
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3.
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P.Sivakami
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: Land: Woman’s Breath and Speech
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4.
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Durga Khote
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: Memories of the Marathi Stage
(1910 -26)
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I had inherited…taking its course
Pg 42 - 47
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UNIT IV: DRAMA
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Girish Karnad
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: Tughlaq
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UNIT V: FICTION
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Shanmugasundaram
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:Nagammal
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SHORT STORIES
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1.
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R.Chudamani
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: Does Anyone
Care?
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2.
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Prabanchan
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: Brahma Vriksha
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3.
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Satyam Sankarmanchi
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: The Flood
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4.
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B.M. Zuhara
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: Literacy
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5.
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Afrose Sayeeda
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: Destination Spring
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Prescribed Text:
Wordscapes: Indian Literature in
Translation, Oxford University Press
SEMESTER V
ELECTIVE PAPER 1 –
JOURNALISM
& MASS COMMUNICATION
UNIT-I MASS COMMUNICATION-ORIGIN AND
DEVELOPMENT
1.
Need for Communication.
2.
Types of Communication.
3.
Elements of Communication.
4.
Barriers of Communication.
5.
7-C’s of Communication.
6.
Functions and uses of Mass Communication.
UNIT-II JOURNALISM
1.
What is Journalism?
2.
History of Journalism
3.
The Role of the Press
4.
Functions of the Press
5.
Journalism as a Career
6.
Qualification of a Successful Journalist
UNIT-III PRINT MEDIA
1.
What is News?
2.
Collecting the Fact
3.
Reporting the News
4.
Editing the News
5.
How to write Headlines
6.
The News Editor
7.
The Sub-Editor
UNIT-IV REPORT WRITING
1.
The Reporter
2.
The Chief Reporter and other
Correspondents
3.
The News Editor
4.
Feature Writing
5.
Writing for the Magazines
6.
The Freelance Journalist
UNIT-V ELECTRONIC MEDIA
1.
Radio
2.
Television
3.
The Internet
4.
Writing for Radio and Television
Prescribed Texts
1.
Vir Aggarwal & V.S.Gupta., Handbook
of Journalism and Mass Communication, Concept Publishing Company,
New Delhi.
2.
Puri. G.K. Competition Success:
Review Communication . New Delhi: Sudha Publication,
3.
Roy, Baron, Beginner’s Guide to
Journalism, New Delhi: Pushtak Mahal, 2003.
4.
Parthasarathy,Rangaswami, Basic
Jounalism,Macmillan Publications,New Delhi,1984 Print.
SEMESTER V
ELECTIVE
PAPER 1
TECHNIQUES
OF TRANSLATION
Unit I
PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSLATION:
Definition of Translation
Equivalence: semantic and stylistic
Rules: description and prescription
Unit II
DEFINITION OF A TRANSLATOR:
Memory,meaning and language
The communication process
The
translation process
Unit III
TRANSLATION THEORY:
Theories
,models and analogies
Requirements
for a theory of Translation
Methodology;Investigating
translation
Unit IV
TRANSLATING:MODELLING
THE PROCESS TheTranslator: Knowledge and Skills
Ideal:Bilingual competence –
Expertise - Communicative competence
Unit V
TRANSLATING:
THE MODEL
components
and processes –Analysis – synthesis
Using the process to translate
Analysis:
reading the source language text
Preparation to Translate
Synthesis:
writing the target translation text
Prescribed text:
Bell,
Roger T.Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice.UK: Longman
Group.1991
https://pandoraenglish.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/ebooksclub-
org__translation_and_translating__theory_and_practice__applied_linguistics_and
_language_study_.pdf
SEMESTER V
SKILL BASED SUBJECT - PAPER 3
CONVERSATIONAL
ENGLISH
Unit I
Greeting
Introducing
Inviting
someone
Making requests
Seeking
permission
Persuading
Unit II
Compliments/Congratulating
Expressing
sympathy
Complaining
Apologising
Starting a conversation with a
stranger
Ending
a conversation
Unit III
Asking
for Information
Asking someone to say something
again
Checking
that you have understood
Asking if someone is able to do
something
Unit IV
At
the Doctor’s
At
the bank
Railway enquiry
Looking
for Accommodation
In a Government office
At the Greengrocer’s
Unit V
Invitation
to a party
Talking about a vacation
Seeking admission in a school
Asking about a course
Selling a Product
Getting
a book published
An Interview
Prescribed Texts:
Spoken
English For You Level 1, RadhakrishnaPillai G,KRajeevan. Emerald Publishers,
Chennai
Spoken
English For You Level 2, RadhakrishnaPillai G,Emerald Publishers, Chennai
SEMESTER VI
PAPER - 13 - SHAKESPEARE
Objectives:
·
To enable the students to read the
plays in the light of the critical approaches that has emerged prominent.
·
The students will be enabled to
review the traditional concepts of genre such as the Tragedy and the Romantic
comedy etc.
UNIT I (Detailed Study)
: Macbeth
UNIT II (Detailed Study)
: As You Like It
UNIT III (Non-detailed Study)
The Tempest
UNIT IV SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM I
(Non-detailed Study)
Thomas
Dequincey : On the
Knocking at the gate in Macbeth
(A Book of English Essays. Penguin
Books, New Delhi 1992)
William Hazlitt
:
Character of Shakespeare’s Plays
1. Macbeth
2. As You Like It
3. The Tempest
UNIT V SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM II
(Non-detailed Study)
Nevill Coghill
W.H. Auden
: The Basis Of Shakespearian Comedy
Part-III: As Shakespeare matured in
comedy…
the first modification of Vincent’s
formula for
comedy
:
Music in Shakespeare Part VII: Ariel’s songs in The
Tempest…a
place where silence shall be all.
From Ridler,Anne.Shakespeare
Criticism:1935-60.OUP , London.1965
Books for Study and Reference
Hazlitt, William .Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays.
Oxford University Press, London.1966
Ridler,Anne. Shakespeare Criticism: 1935-60. Oxford
University Press, London.1965
Charlton H.B. Shakespearian Comedy.Methuen &
Co.Ltd. London 1969.
Wells, Stanley and Lena Cowen Orlin,
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide.
Oxford University Press 2003
Newyork.
Edwards, Philip. Shakespeare and the confines of Art
Methuen & CO.LTD London 1972.
Clemen,Wolfgang. Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art –Methuen
& CO.LTD London 1972.
Dover, John Wilson The Essential Shakespeare –Cambridge
University Press 1967 Bennett H.S. Studies in Shakespeare - Oxford University
Press 1964 London.
Smith,Emma..The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide, plots,
characters and Interpretations. Cambridge University Press.
Rosen,Joseph Blum Ed The Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare.
Volume I,II,III,IV Atlantic
Publishers – New Delhi 2007.
Kurian,Anna.ed., Shakespeare. Orient BlackSwan, 2016
Shakespeare,William.
Macbeth.The Arden Shakespeare ed., Sandra Clerk and Pamela Mason
Bloomsbury,New Delhi. 2015
Shakespeare,William.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.The Arden Shakespeare ed., Harold F.Brooks
Bloomsbury,New Delhi. 2013
SEMESTER VI
PAPER - 14 -
BRITISH LITERATURE V
Objectives:
·
To give the students knowledge of
the literary accomplishments and an exposure to twentieth century writers.
·
To familiarize them with the writers of the modern era.
UNIT I: POETRY (Detailed Study)
W. B. Yeats
:
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Philip Larkin
: Church
Going
Wilfred Owen
:
Insensibility
UNIT II: PROSE (Detailed Study)
George Orwell
:
Why I Write
D.H. Lawrence
:
Why the Novel Matters
UNIT III: DRAMA (Detailed Study)
T.S.Eliot
:
Murder in the Cathedral
UNIT IV: POETRY (Non-Detailed Study)
Dylan Thomas
:
Fern Hill
W. H. Davis
:
Leisure
UNIT V
DRAMA
J.M. Synge
:
Riders to the Sea
FICTION
E. M. Foster
:
A Passage to India
Virginia Woolf
:
To the Lighthouse
Books for Study and Reference
David,Green.
The Winged Word. London: Macmillan, 1974 Viswanathan,Gauri. Masks of
conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India.OUP,1998
Sherry,Vincent,ed.
The CambridgeCompanion to the Literature of the First World War.
CUP,2005
Mukherjee,
Sipra. Literary Contexts: Modern English Literature 1890-1960.Orient
BlackSwan,2016
Web Resources
Literary Texts – Prose, Poetry and
Fiction:
George Orwell – Why I write –Text:
SEMESTER VI
PAPER -15 -NEW LITERATURES IN
ENGLISH
UNIT I: POETRY
Derek
Walcott Pablo Neruda Margaret Atwood
:
A far Cry from Africa
:
Tonight I can write…
:
Journey to the Interior
UNIT II: DRAMA
Wole Soyinka
: The Lion and the Jewel
UNIT III: SHORT STORIES
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Nadine Gordimer Katherine Mansfield
Isabel Allende
:
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
: Once Upon a Time
: Miss Brill
: And of Clay re We Created
UNIT IV: PROSE
Ngugi
Wa Thiong’o Thomas B. Macaulay
:
On the Abolition of the English Department
: Minute on Indian Education
UNIT V: FICTION
Chinua Achebe
:
Things Fall Apart
Books for Study and Reference
Texts
and their worlds II.ed., K Naryan chandran. Foundation
Books.,Chennai,2005
Ed. Nasta, Susheila. Writing
Across Worlds. London: Routledge.2004
Punter, David. Postcolonial
Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order. Atlantic:
New Delhi. 2005.
SEMESTER VI
ELECTIVE
PAPER 2 -
TECHNOLOGY
MEDIATED ENGLISH
Unit 1:
1. World
Wide Web & Email: WWW FAQ’S : Email, Internet
2. Searching
the Internet & Search FAQ’s
3. The Internet
as Resource Bank and classroom tool
4. E.Mail
Projects and Discussion Lists
Unit 2:
1.
Introduction to NET (I)
2.
Introduction to NET (II)
Unit 3:
1.
Strange news
2.
Making news
3.
Eco-tourism
Unit 4:
1.
Writing Projects
2.
Online groups
3.
Blogs and Wikis
4.
Email projects and discussion lists
Unit 5:
1.
A good book
2.
Puzzle maker
3.
web quest
4.
Professional development online
Prescribed Text
The
Internet and the Language Classroom – A Practical Guide for Teachers – II
Edition – Gavin Dudency , Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SEMESTER VI
ELECTIVE -
PAPER 2
BUSINESS
ENGLISH
UNIT I
1. Introduction
to Business Communication
2. Communication
in Organizations
UNIT II
1. Non- Verbal
Communication
2. Effective
Listening
UNIT III
1. Making
presentations
2. Audio -
Visual Aids
3. E-Mail
Communication
UNIT IV
1. Resumes and
cover letters
2. Preparing an
Effective cv
3. Group
Discussions
4. Interview
Techniques
UNIT V
1. Memos,
Reports, Proposals
2. Note taking,
Note making
3. Inter
cultural communication
Books for Study and Reference
N. Krishnaswamy, Manju Dariwal,
Lalitha Krishnaswamy.
Mastering
communication and soft skills: A Learner's Guide to Life Skills. Bloomsbury.
2015
Om P. Juneja and Aarti Mujumdar
Business Communication: Techniques and
Methods (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan
Private Limited, 2010.
Sanghita Sen
, Alankrita Mahendra , Priyadarshi Patnaik.
Communication & language skills.
Cambridge University Press India.2015
SEMESTER VI
ELECTIVE
PAPER - 3 COPY EDITING AND PROOF READING
UNIT I: INTRODUCTION TO COPY EDITING
1.
What is copy editing?
2.
Type Scripts: Hard copy, Electronic and Camera ready
3.
Type Scripts corrected by the author
4.
Copy editing on Screen
UNIT II: PREPARING THE TEXT FOR THE
TYPE SETTER
1.
Various legal aspects
2. A well
organized and consistent book
3. Copy right
permissions and acknowledgements
UNIT III: ILLUSTRATIONS AND PROOFS
1.
How to read proofs
2.
How to make corrections
3.
Colour coding corrections
4.
The author’s corrected proof
5.
After passing proofs for Press
UNIT IV: HOUSE STYLE
1.
House Style and Preliminary Pages
2. Cross –
references
2.
Date and Time
3.
Spelling and Punctuation
4.
Title page
5.
Contents List
6.
List of Illustrations
UNIT V: OTHER PARTS OF A BOOK AND
LITERARY MATERIAL
1.
Running Heads
2.
Page numbers
3.
Headings
4.
Footnotes and Endnotes
5.
Tables
6.
Appendixes
7.
Glossaries
Prescribed Text:
“Butcher’s
copy Editing” – Fourth Edition – Judith Butcher, Caroline Drake and Marseen
Leach – CUP.
SEMESTER VI
ELECTIVE PAPER -3
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
UNIT I- JUST A MINUTE
Planning
a speech- Beginning a speech-Transitions-Closing statements- Body language-
Voice modulation- Practising a speech- Effective Communication
UNIT II- WRITING SKILLS
Features
of good writing – Gathering ideas – Purposes of writing – Writing for a
specific audience – Organising ideas – Writing an introduction
UNIT III- CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Developing
support ideas- Writing a conclusion – Using linkers – Choosing the right words
– Common errors in writing – Editing and proofreading
UNIT IV- GROUP DISCUSSION
Group
discussion as a tool for selection- Skills for group discussion- Leadership and
problem solving skills- Types of group discussions- Group dynamics- Roles and
functions: beginning, presenting, elaborating- Roles and functions:
agreeing/disagreeing and summarising- Etiquette, body language and time
management- group discussion activities
UNIT V- CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Reasoning-
Analysis- Making an argument- Evaluating an argument- Evaluating alternative
points of view- Synthesising and making connection- Interpreting information-
Thinking about experiences- Problem solving- Thinking out of the box.
Prescribed Book
Mukhopadhyay, Lina et al.
Polyskills: A course in communication skills and life
skills. New Delhi:
Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd., 2012.
SEMESTER VI
SKILL BASED SUBJECT - PAPER 4
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE TEACHING
UNIT I
Problems & prospects for the
teacher of English.
What is involved in teaching
English?
UNIT II
The content of the teaching of
English
Strategies of techniques for the
teacher
Planning the lesson
Methods & Techniques for
Teaching
English in large classes- prose
UNIT III
Teaching reading skills: poetry
UNIT IV
Teaching of grammar &
Composition
Examinations in English
UNIT V
Non- Verbal Presentation skills
Public speaking & presentation
skills
Preparing for Interview
Books for Study and Reference
1.
Bright . Mc. Gregor : Teaching English as a second language
(Longman)
2.
Spring Board to success: Sharada Kaushik Bindu Bajwa
3.
Gosh, Sastrie, Dass : Introductions
to English Language Teaching vol:3 CIEFL(oup)
4.
Nagaraj, Geetha. English Language
Teaching. Delhi, Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2010.
5.
Saraswathi. V. English Language
Teaching, Principles and Practice. Chennai, Orient Longman, 2004.
6.
Willis, Jane. Teaching English
Through English. Hong Kong, Sing Cheong Printing co. Ltd, 1984.
