Essential and Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
AENG 100
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Improve their knowledge of grammar and fluency in oral and written production
  2. Get acquainted with the structures of phonetics and word stress
  3. Acquire compositional and editing skills

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary and Phonetics

                                                                         

  • Synonyms & Antonyms
  • Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix
  • Word-stress (marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

 

 

 

8.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage

                                                                              

  • Transformation of Sentences:

       (i)  Direct & Indirect Narration

       (ii) Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

  • Modals
  • Sequence of Tenses

 

4.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

                                                                               

  • Comprehension of an unseen passage (including interpreting visual material,

       eg. Graphics, etc.)

 

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV: Compositional Skills

 

                                                                         

  • Letters     :  Formal & Informal                                                
  • CVs  & Job-Applications
  • Précis–Writing

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Unit V: Professional Writing Skills

                                                                               

  • Dialogue-Writing
  • Editing a Short Text (focusing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  • A University Grammar of English by Quirk & Greenbaum (O.Longman, 1973).
  • A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates (Ed. Gunashekar, Book 1, CIEFL, Hyderabad).
  • Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension by H.G.Suryanarayana Rao (OUP).
  • A Guide to Patterns & Usage by A.S.Hornby.
  • CVs & Job Applications by Judith Leigh(OUP, 2004)
  • English at the Workplace (Eds.Panja Sawhney & Verma, Macmillan, 2006)
  • Professional Communication by R.P. Singh (OUP, 2001)
  • English Made Simply by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Made Simple Books, Garden City, New York, 1991).
  • The Written Word by Vandana R. Singh (OUP)
  • The Mind’s Eye by Alan Maley, A. Duff and F. Grellet (CUP, 1980)
  • An Intermediate English Grammar by C.D. Siddhu (O. Longman)

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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