Course Description:
The course addresses the English language needs of the students at the undergraduate level and it also acknowledges their critical thinking skills. The text exposes the students to a range of contexts where the language is used to meet a variety of real life communication needs, to give and seek information, to express opinions, and to engage with practical, emotional, intellectual and creative aspects of language by integrating knowledge and skills. The book emphasizes on the use rather than the usage, on how the English language is used rather than how it should be used. Each chapter is organized in such a way that it creates a lot of involvement and encouragement to the learner.
The syllabus has been designed to develop linguistic and communicative competence of undergraduate students. It includes four genres- Short fiction, prose, poetry and drama. The major part of of each lesson is devoted to remedial language learning which includes pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation. The focus is on the skills of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking The teacher also asks questions to stimulate classroom discussion and based on these discussions the students will be made to write short paragraphs /essays, participate in group discussions as part of continuous assessment.
Course Outcomes
The students will be able to:
· Read short fiction, identify the various elements of a short story and write their own stories.
· Improve their pronunciation with the help of phonemic transcription.
· Figure out the etymological origins of English words by learning Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes, and learn to spell correctly.
· Distinguish the subtle differences in meaning and articulation in homonyms, homographs & homophones
· Learn different types of nouns, pronouns, auxiliary and main verbs.
· Be acquainted with the rules of punctuation concerning capitalization, commas, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks.
· Gain verbal competence in practicing how to introduce oneself in formal situation, describing one’s college and course of study, sustaining cordial conversations and leaving a voice mail.
· Read passages about the local culture, practices, history and personages of Telangana.
· Enhance their writing skills by learning how to draft paragraphs, sequencing sentences into coherent passages, describing something or someone in writing and writing a dialogue.
- Hone their soft skills and imbibe valuable life lessons to steer their course of life.
- Teacher: JYOTSNA A S