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
6.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1 (Phonetics)

Transcription of Phonetic Symbols

Word Stress

6.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2 (Writing Skills I)

CV’s and Job Applications

Precis Writing

6.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3 (Writing Skills II)

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

Dialogue Writing (from ‘The Written Word’, OUP)

6.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4 (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: 
Unit 5 (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”(from Language through Literature)

Source Books: 
  1. Language through Literature (OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

1. CVs and Job Applications by Judith Leigh (OUP, 2004)

2. English at the Workplace Eds. Panja, Sawhney & Verma (Macmillan, 2006)

3. Professional Communication by R.P. Singh (OUP, 2001)

4. English Made Simple by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Rupan & Co.)

5. The Written Word by Vandana R. Singh (OUP)

6. Appreciating English Poetry : A Practical Course and Anthology by Praveen K. Thaker (Orient Longman,1999)

7. Technical Writing by Sunder Rajan Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students by L. G. Alexander, O. Longman, London, 1975.

Academic Year: 
2014-2015