Applied Language Skills

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

Course Objectives:

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

 

Course Outcomes

The students will:

  • Appraise the nuances of pronunciation and word stress through phonetics
  • Display compositional skills for verbal and non-verbal communication
  • Evaluate the fundamentals of prose and poetry appreciation

 

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Phonetics

Transcription of Phonetic Symbols

Word Stress

 

6.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Writing Skills - I

Resumé, CV and Job Application

Precis-writing

 

6.00
Unit III: 
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: 
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: 
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: 
2021-2022