APPLIED LANGUAGE SKILLS

Paper Code: 
FEN 200
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
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.

 

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 with focus 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, figures of speech, 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”  (from Language through   Literature)

Source Books: 

 

Essential Readings:

Language Through Literature - Book 1: A Book of Literature for Language Learning. 01st ed. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1967. Print.

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Orient Longman Limited, 1975. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. Oxford UP, 2004. Print.

Panja, Shormishtha, Sudesh Sawhney, and Promodini Varma, eds. English At The Workplace. Macmillan India Limited, 2006. Print.

Punter, David. Metaphor. London: Routledge, 2007. Print.

Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. Oxford UP: New Delhi, 2006. Print.

Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981. 276. Print.

Thaker, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry: A Practical Course and Anthology. Orient Longman Limited, 1999. Print.

Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981. 276. Print.