Essential & Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
EEN/EJD/VEN100
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Evaluate the nuances of pronunciation and word stress through phonetics
  2. Analyse grammatical structures meaningfully and appropriately in language-use
  3. Display compositional skills over a variety of written tasks
  4. Demonstrate effective vocabulary skills for written and verbal communication
  5. Develop editing skills for broad-based applications in content writing, journalism, etc.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

Quizzes

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, practice exercises ‚ Effective questions, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments,  Individual and group projects

 

 

6.00

Vocabulary and Phonetics

Synonyms & Antonyms

Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix

Word-stress (marking stress)

 

 

 

10.00

Grammar and Usage

Transformation of Sentences:

  • Direct & Indirect Narration
  • Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

Modals

Sequence of Tenses

 

 

 

2.00

Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage

 

 

 

6.00

Compositional Skills

Letter : Formal & Informal    

Resumé, CV& Job-Application

Précis–Writing

 

 

 

6.00

Professional Writing Skills

Dialogue-Writing

Editing a Short Text

(focussing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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.

 

E-Resources:

https://www.slideshare.net/19gammans64/synonyms-and-antonyms-23238054

https://www.slideshare.net/widyakurniaarizonasan/prefix-and-suffix-46984985

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