Applied Language Skills

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

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. 1st ed. 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: 
2019-2020