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ESSENTIAL & APPLIED LANGUAGE SKILLS [1]

Paper Code: 
EEN/VEN/EJD100
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage.
  • Strengthening compositional skills
  • Facilitating comprehension of short-stories
  • Enabling students to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds and word-stress)

 

8.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary and Phonetics
  • Synonyms & Antonyms
  • Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix
  • Word-stress (marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

 

4.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage
  • Transformation of Sentences:
    •  Direct & Indirect Narration
    •  Interchange of Degrees of Comparison
  • Modals
  • Sequence of Tenses

 

6.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension
  • Comprehension of an unseen passage (including interpreting visual material, e.g. graphics, etc.)

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
Compositional Skills
  • Letters : Formal & Informal                                                       
  • CVs  & Job-Applications
  • Précis–Writing

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Professional Writing Skills
  • Dialogue-Writing
  • Editing a Short Text (focusing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)

 

 

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Harlow: Orient Longman Limited, 1973.
  • Gunashekar, Paul, ed. A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates. Book 1. Hyderabad: CIEFL.
  • Rao, H. G. Suryanarayana. Prose For Pleasure & Comprehension. Oxford UP, 2010.
  • Hornby, A.S. A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English. Oxford UP, 1954.
  • Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. Oxford UP, 2004.
  • Panja, Shormishtha, Sudesh Sawhney, and Promodini Varma, eds. English At The Workplace. Macmillan India Limited, 2006.
  • Singh, R.P. Professional Communication. Oxford UP, 2001.
  • Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981.
  • Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. Oxford UP, 2006.

Maley, Alan, Alan Duff, and Frangoise Grellet. The Mind's Eye. Cambridge UP, 1980.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022 [2]

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