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Essential & Applied Language Skills
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Improve their knowledge of grammar and fluency in oral and written production
- Get acquainted with the structures of phonetics and word stress
- Acquire compositional and editing skills
Course Outcomes
The students will:
- Evaluate the nuances of pronunciation and word stress through phonetics
- Analyse grammatical structures meaningfully and appropriately in language-use
- Display compositional skills over a variety of written tasks
Vocabulary and Phonetics
Synonyms & Antonyms
Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix
Word-stress (marking stress)
Grammar and Usage
Transformation of Sentences:
o Direct & Indirect Narration
o Interchange of Degrees of Comparison
Modals
Sequence of Tenses
Comprehension
Comprehension of an unseen passage
Compositional Skills
Letter : Formal & Informal
Resumé, CV& Job-Application
Précis–Writing
Professional Writing Skills
Dialogue-Writing
Editing a Short Text
(focussing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)
Source Books:
Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Longman, 1986.
Seely, John. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. OUP, 2005.
Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. OUP, 2009.
Suggested Readings:
Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. Longman, 1973.
Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. OUP, 2004.