19 August 2018

Syllabus for the post of Junior Lecturers of English in TS Residential Educational Institutions Societies



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Syllabus for the post of Junior Lecturers of English in TS Residential Educational Institutions Societies 



Scheme of Examination 
Written Examination (Objective Type)                              No. of Questions Duration (Minutes) Marks 
Paper-I General Studies,General Abilities and 
             Basic Proficiency in English                                 100                      120                           100 
Paper-II Pedagogy Across the Curriculum 
              (Common Syllabus)                                             100                       120                           100 
Paper-III Concerned Subject (PG Level)                           100                       120                           100 
                                                                      Demonstration                                                              25 
                                                                                                                                       Total           325



Syllabus Paper-I 

General Studies, General Abilities and Basic Proficiency in English 

Section-I: General Studies 

1. Current Affairs – Regional, National & International. 
2. Indian Constitution; Indian Political System; Governance and Public Policy. 
3. Social Exclusion; Rights issues such as Gender, Caste, Tribe, Disability etc. and inclusive policies. 
4. Society Culture, Civilization Heritage, Arts and Literature of India and Telangana 
5. General Science; India’s Achievements in Science and Technology 
6. Environmental Issues; Disaster Management- Prevention and Mitigation Strategies and Sustainable Development. 
7. Economic and Social Development of India and Telangana. 
8. Socio-economic, Political and Cultural History of Telangana with special emphasis on Telangana Statehood Movement and formation of Telangana state. 

Section-II: General Abilities 

9. Analytical Abilities: Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation. 
10. Moral Values and Professional Ethics in Education. 
11. Teaching Aptitude 

Section – III: Basic Proficiency in English

i) School Level English Grammar: Articles; Tense; Noun & Pronouns; Adjectives; Adverbs; Verbs; Modals; SubjectVerb Agreement; Non-Finites; Reported Speech; Degrees of Comparison; Active and Passive Voice; Prepositions; Conjunctions; Conditionals. 
ii) Vocabulary: Synonyms and Antonyms; Phrasal Verbs; Related Pair of Words; Idioms and Phrases; Proverbs. 
iii) Words and Sentences: Use of Words; Choosing Appropriate words and Words often Confused; Sentence Arrangement, Completion, Fillers and Improvement; Transformation of Sentences; Comprehension; Punctuation; Spelling Test; Spotting of Errors.

Syllabus Paper-II Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (Common Syllabus) 


I. The History and Nature of liberal disciplines of knowledge. Importance of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive areas in Education. 
II. Values, Aims and Objectives of Teaching Liberal and Creative Disciplines of Knowledge including Vocational subjects, Crafts, Performance and Fine arts etc. 
III. Psychology of Human Development; Psychology of Teaching and Learning. 
IV. Curriculum: Construction, Organization and Development 
V. Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching Disciplines of Knowledge 
VI. Planning for Effective Instruction: Different Plans and Designing Learning Experiences. 
VII. Learning Resources and Designing Instructional Material; Labs; Teaching Aids; Textbooks; ICT integration; OERs (Open Educational Resources). 
VIII. Measurement and Evaluation: Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE); Tools and Techniques of Evaluation; Achievement and Diagnostic Tests. Critical approach to assessment and evaluation. 
IX. Learning Disabilities; Learning Difficulties and Education of Exceptional and Disabled Children 
X. Disciplines of Knowledge and Everyday Life; Non-formal Education in the Institutions of Learning. 
XI. Pedagogical Concerns: Quality and Academic Standards; Teaching and Its relationship with Learning and Learner, Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the Socio-Political and Cultural Context ; Managing Behavior problems, Guidance & Counseling, Punishment and Its legal implications, Rights of a Child, Time Management, Distinction between Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning, School Based Assessment, Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation; Understanding Teaching and Learning in the context of NCF and Right to Education Act.


Paper – III: English 


I. Genres, Movements, Schools, Concepts. 
• Renaissance-Reformation, Metaphysical poetry, Neo-classicism, Puritanism, Restoration, Romanticism, Victorian Age, Realism-Naturalism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Modernism, Postmodernism. 
• Structuralism, Post structuralism, Feminism, Post colonialism, Diaspora, Race Gender and Caste. 
• English Literary Criticism from Philip Sydney to Matthew Arnold 
• New Criticism, Formalism, Archetypal criticism, New Historicism, Psychoanalytical criticism, Reader response criticism. 
• Literary Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Prose, Drama (origins and development, elements, forms, types) 

II. Writers and Texts 
• Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus 
• William Shakespeare Hamlet 
• John Milton Paradise Lost-Book 1 
• William Wordsworth “Immortality Ode”, Tintern Abbey 
• Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “Andrea del Sarto” 
• Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’ Urbervilles 
• TS Eliot The Waste Land 
• G.B. Shaw Saint Joan 
• Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own” 
• William Golding Lord of the Flies 
• Walt Whitman “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd”,”Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” 
• Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman 
• Toni Morrison Beloved 
• Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable 
• Kamala Das “An Introduction”, “The Old Playhouse” 
• Girish Karnad Hayavadana 
• Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children 
• Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart 
• Margaret Atwood Edible Woman 
• Derek Walcott Dream on Monkey Mountain 

III English Language Teaching 

1. ELT in India: (History and status of English in India; English as Second Language, English as Foreign Language, and English as Global Language). 
2. Methods and Approaches: (Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-Lingual method; Structural approach, Communicative language teaching) 
3. Teaching of Language Skills: (Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing Skills; Teaching of Grammar and Functional English; Teaching of Vocabulary; Classroom techniques; Use of authentic materials) Teaching literature.
4. Testing and Evaluation: (Principles, Types, Objectives of testing and evaluation) 
5. Phonetics and Phonology; Syntax and Structure. 


IV. Literary comprehension - (Excerpts from poetry and prose for comprehension

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