Applied Linguistics and Grammar - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 424-C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO 146.  Evaluate the linguistic and grammatical structures of the English language

CO 147. Defend analytical and interpretive arguments with regard to language

CO 148. Develop required skills to edit, analyze and compose a cohesive and coherent document

CO 149. Analyze and articulate the basic mechanisms and functions common to all languages

CO 150.  Acquire knowledge of phonetics and phonology for application of speech patterns

 

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Report-writing, Seminar-presentation

Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
12.00
Unit II: 
Co-ordination of Clauses and Phrases
12.00
Unit III: 
Focus, Theme and Emphasis
12.00
Unit IV: 
Teaching Methods: Grammar and Translation Method, Situational and Bilingual Methods
12.00
Unit V: 
Communicative Language Teaching
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Akmajian, A. R.A. Demers, and R.M. Harnish. An Introduction to Language and Communication.2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1991.

Coulthard, Malcolm. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis.2nd ed. Routledge, 1996.

Harold, Parmer, F.G. Blandford, and Roger Kingdon. Grammar for English Words. 6th ed. W. Heffer& Sons, 1970.

Leech, Geoffery. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. Willy BlackwellPublisher, 1990.

Littlewood, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Randolph,Quirk, and Sydney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Orient Longman, 1973.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0n21qCiLs Principles and Parameters in Natural Language by Prof. Rajesh Kumar,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Madras.For more details on NPTEL http://nptel.ac.in

Journals:

Applied Linguistics

Journal of Communication

Modern Language Journal    

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023