APPLIED LANGUAGE SKILLS

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Be familiar with the structures of phonetics and word stress
  • Strengthen their compositional skills
  • Make a critical appreciation of prose and poetry, as a step towards language-learning through literature
6.00
Unit I: 
Phonetics
Transcription of Phonetic Symbols
Word Stress
6.00
Unit II: 
Writing Skills - I
Resumé, CV and Job Application
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)
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: 
Language through Literature - Book 1: A Book of Literature for Language Learning. First ed. New  OUP, 1967. 
Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Orient Longman, 1975. 
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. OUP, 2004. 
Panja, Shormishtha, Sudesh Sawhney, and Promodini Varma, eds. English At The Workplace. Macmillan India, 2006. 
Punter, David. Metaphor. Routledge, 2007. 
Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. OUP, 2006. 
Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Rupa, 1981. 
Thaker, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry: A Practical Course and Anthology. Orient Longman, 1999. 
Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Rupa, 1981.
Academic Year: 
2020-2021