Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
FEN 200
Credits: 
2
Periods/week: 
2
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • Introducing students to phonetics in order to enable them to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds and word stress)
  • Strengthening compositional skills
  • Facilitating comprehension  of prose and poetry

     Methodology:

  • Teaching through ppt., handouts, etc.
6.00
Unit I: 
Phonetics

Transcription of Phonetic Symbols

Word Stress

6.00
Unit II: 
Writing Skills I

CV’s and Job Applications

Precis Writing

6.00
Unit III: 
Writing Skills II

Editing a Short Text, focusing on grammar, coherence, and cohesion

Dialogue Writing (from ‘The Written Word’, OUP) 
6.00
Unit IV: 
Critical Appreciation I

Analysis of a Literary Text Prose (in terms of language, structure, theme, point of view, referential and connotative meaning)

Jane Austen - “An Excellent Father”
E.V. Lucas – “The School for Sympathy”
Stephen Leacock – “My Financial Career”
O. Henry – “A Gift for Christmas”
Kahlil gibran – “Pity the Nation” (from Language through Literature)
6.00
Unit V: 
Critical Appreciation II

Analysis of a Literary Text Poetry (in terms of imagery, diction, rhyme, tone, symbolism, referential and connotative meaning)

Robert Browning – “Pippa’s Song”
Siegfried Sassoon – “Everyone Sang”
John Masefield – “Beauty”
W. H. Davies – “In the Country”
Rabindranath Tagore – “Heaven of Freedom/Where the Mind is Without Fear”(from Language through Literature)
Source Books: 
  • Language Through Literature - Book 1: A Book of Literature for Language Learning. 01st ed. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1967.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Panja, Shormishtha, Sudesh Sawhney, and Promodini Varma, eds. English At The Workplace. Macmillan India Limited, 2006.
  • Singh, R.P. Professional Communication. Oxford UP, 2001. 311.
  • Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981. 276.
  • Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. Oxford UP, 2006.
  • Thaker, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry: A Practical Course and Anthology. Orient Longman Limited, 1999.
  • Rajan, Sunder. Technical Writing.
  • Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Orient Longman Limited, 1975.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019