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

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANATELANGANA RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS RECRUITMENT BOARD (TREI-RB)

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

Scheme of examination for the post of Degree College Lecturers in Residential Educational Institutions Societies 

Scheme of Examination  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 Subject Discipline Knowledge 

/ Concerned Subject (P.G.Level)                                           100                      120                           100 

                                                                                     Demonstration                                                 25 

                                                                                                                                                   Total 225 

Written Examination Syllabus for the post of Degree College Lecturers in Residential Educational Institutions Societies 

Syllabus Paper - I 

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.

Paper – II: English 

I. Genres, Movements, Schools, Concepts: 

 Renaissance-Reformation, Metaphysical poetry, Neo-classicism, Puritanism, Restoration, Romanticism,Victorian Age, Realism-Naturalism, Expressionism, Symbolism, Modernism, Postmodernism. 

 Structuralism, Poststructuralism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, 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 asForeign 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; Useof 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)