Essential Language Skills

Paper Code: 
FEN 200
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Appraise the nuances of pronunciation and word stress through phonetics
  2. Display compositional skills for verbal and non-verbal communication
  3. Evaluate the fundamentals of prose and poetry appreciation
  4. Use theoretical skills for practical applications
  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

Phonetics

Transcription of Phonetic Symbols

Word Stress

 
 

 
 

 

6.00

Writing Skills - I

Resumé, CV and Job Application

Precis-writing

 
 

 

6.00

Writing Skills - II

 

Editing a Short Text with focus on grammar, coherence, and cohesion

 

Dialogue-writing (from The Written Word)

 
 

 

6.00

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

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

 
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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: 
2022-2023