PART A
Module I: Renaissance
and freedom movement
Module II: General
Knowledge and current affairs
Module III:
Methodology of teaching the subject
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History/conceptual development. Need and
Significance, Meaning Nature and Scope of the Subject.
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Correlation with other subjects and life situations.
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Aims, Objectives, and Values of Teaching -
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - Old and revised
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Pedagogic analysis- Need, Significance and
Principles.
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Planning of instruction at Secondary level- Need
an d importance. Psychological bases of teaching the subject - Implications of
Piaget, Brun er, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel and Gardener - Individual difference,
Motivation, Maxim s of teaching.
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Methods and Strategies of teaching the subject-
Mod els of Teaching, Techniques of individualising instruction.
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Curriculum - Definition, Principles, Modern
trends and organizational approaches, Curriculum reforms - NCF/KCF.
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Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library,
Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids - Community based resources -
e-resources - Text book , Work book and Hand book.
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Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose,
Types, P principles, Modern techniques - CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques
- Qualities of a good test - Types of test items - Evaluation of projects,
Seminars and Assignments - Achievement test, D diagnostic test – Construction,
Characteristics, interpretation and remediation.
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Teacher - Qualities and Competencies - different
ro les - Personal Qualities - Essential teaching skills - Microteaching -
Action research
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PART B
Module 1.
Poetry
Shakespeare :- Sonnet 121
Donne :- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Milton :- On His Blindness
Gray :- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
Wordsworth :- Tintern Abbey
Shelley :- To A Skylark
Keats :- Ode On A Grecian Urn
Tennyson :- Ulysses
Browning :- My Last Duchess
Arnold :- Dover Beach
W.B.Yeats :- A Prayer For My Daughter
Sylvia Plath :- Daddy
Tagore :- Where The Mind Is Without Fear
Nissim Ezekiel :- Night Of The Scorpion
Kamala Das :- An
Introduction
A.K.Ramanujan :- Obituary
Robert Frost :- Home Burial Emily
Dickinson :- Because
I Could Not Stop For Death
Wole Soyinka :- A Telephone Conversation
Meena Alexander :- House Of A Thousand Doors
Margaret Atwood :- This Is A Photograph Of Me
David Diop :- Africa
Jack Davis :- Aboriginal Australia
Module 2. Drama
1. Shakespeare :- Macbeth
2. Sheridan :- School For Scandal
3. Oscar Wilde :- The Importance Of Being Ernest
4. Ibsen :- A Doll's House
5. Shaw :- Pygmalion
6. J.M.Synge :- Riders To The Sea
7. Samuel Beckett :- Waiting For Godot
8. Arthur Miller :- Death Of A Salesman
9. Tennessee Williams :- The Glass Menagerie
10. Girish Karnad :- Nagamandala
Module 3:
Prose and Fiction
1. Francis Bacon :- Of Studies
2. Steele :- The Trumpet Club
3. A.G. Gardiner :- On The Rule Of The Road
4. E.M. Forster :- On Tolerance
5. Bertrand Russel :- Functions Of A Teacher
6. Dr.Radhakrishnan :- Humanities vs Science
7. Emily Bronte :- Wuthering Heights
8. George Orwell :- Animal Farm
9. Hemingway :- The Old Man And The Sea
10. Shashi Deshpande :- Roots and Shadows
11. Arundati Roy :-
The God Of Small Things
12. Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye
Module 4:
.Literary Criticism/ Terms
1.Rasa
2.Dhwani
3.Aristotle: Poetics
4.Wordsworth: Preface To Lyrical Ballads
5.Coleridege: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14
6.Arnold: Study of
Poetry
7.Eliot:Tradition And The Individual Talent
8.Saussure: Nature Of The Linguistic Sign
9.Showalter:Towards A Feminist Poetics
Terms and Movements ( Based on the latest edition of
M.H.Abrams-A Glossary Of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism,
Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian
Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction,
Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post-Colonial ism, Modernism and Post
Modernism
Module 5:
Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language
1.Phonology
2. Morphology
3.Syntax
4.Semantics
5.Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance
6.Organs of Speech
7.Classification Of Speech Sounds
8.Stress, Rhythm, Intonation
9.Transcription
10.Indo-European Family of languages
11.Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian
12.Englishes-American, Australian, Indian, and Afri can
Module 6:
Modern English Usage
1.Sentence Correction
2.Vocabulary
3.Synonyms and Antonyms
4.Give one word
5.Commonly confused words
6.Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc.
7.Appropriate word order
8.Appropriate sentence order
9.Idioms
10.Passage for comprehension
Module 7:
Basic Grammar
1.Article
2.Prepositions
3.Clauses
4.Tenses
5.Phrasal Verbs
6.Conjunctions
7.Reported Speech
8.Voice
9.Question Tag
10.Transformation of sentences
Module 8:
Teaching of English
1.Schools-Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism
2.Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Rea ding and
Writing
3.Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen
4.Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audi
o-lingual; Direct Method; Structural-Oral- Situational Approach; Communicative
Approach; Bilin gual Method; Humanistic Approaches
5.Use of AV aids and ICT
6.Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar
7.Testing and Evaluation
8.Learner Types
9.Teaching learners with disability
10.NCF, KCF on teaching of English
