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21 October 2012

Syllabus for Polytechnic Lecturers

English Syllabus for Polytechnic Lecturers

LECTURERS IN GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC COLLEGES 

I.                     Writers and Texts


1)       William Shakespeare "Hamlet", "Tempest"
2)       John Milton "Paradise Lost"-Book 1 and 9
3)       William Wordsworth “Immortality Ode”, "Tintern Abbey"
4)       John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”
5)       Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “The Last Ride Together”
6)       Charles Dickens David Copperfield
7)       TS Eliot “The Waste Land”, "Murder in the Cathedral"
8)       GB Shaw "Saint Joan"
9)       Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”
10)   Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot"
11)   William Golding "Lord of the Flies"
12)   Robert Frost “Home Burial”, “The Road Not Taken”
13)   Eugene O’Neill "The Hairy Ape"
14)   Toni Morrison "Beloved"
15)   Mulk Raj Anand "Untouchable"
16)   AK Ramanujan “Love Poem for a Wife”, “Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House”
17)   Girish Karnad "Hayavadana"
18)   Salman Rushdie "Midnight’s Children"
19)   Chinua Achebe "Things Fall Apart"
20)   Margaret Atwood "Edible Woman"
21)   AD Hope “Australia”, “Crossing the Frontier”
22)   Bessie Head "A Question of Power"

II.                  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)
4)       Testing and Evaluation: (Principles, Types, Objectives of testing and evaluation)

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