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SYLLABUS FOR ADMISSION TEST TO M.PHIL. PH.D.

PROGRAMME DURING THE SESSION 2012-2013

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Faculty of Arts

Dept. of English

MA ELT I SemesteGeneral and English Phonetics 1

Paper I-A

2012-2013

Course No. ETM 7006 50 Marks

Credits : 04

Unit 1

Phonetics: Definition; Relationship between Phonetics and Linguistics;

Relationship between Phonetics and Phonology.

Phonetics and its Branches; Articulatory Phonetics; Acoustic Phonetics; Auditory

Phonetics; Perceptual Phonetics; Applied Phonetics

Unit 2

Organs of Speech: Functions

Mechanism of Speech Production

Air Stream Mechanism and Phonation Types

Lab work related to Performance Exercises

Using Softwares to check SoundsDeveloping Strategies to improve Pronunciation

Unit 3

The Sound System of a Language: V owels Definition, Description and Classification

Consonants: Description and Classification

Phonemic Transcription: IPA Symbols

Lab work related to: Performance exercises

Using Softwares to check soundsDeveloping Strategies to improve pronunciation

Lab-cum-viva voce examination=25

Sessional Test 15 marksViva-voce 05 marks

Tutorial Assignment 05 marks

Books recommended :Peter Ladefoged:A Course in Phonetics. 4

thEdition. Forthworth: Harcourt College Publisher

Mark Hancock. 2003.English pronunciation in Use. CUP. Cambridge

Martin Hewings. 2004.Pronunciation Practice Activities. CUP. Cambridge

MA ELT Semester I

ELEMENTARY LINGUSTICS

Paper II-A

2012-2013Course No. ETM 7007 75 Marks

Credits : 04

Unit IGeneral Linguistics; Definition and the scope of the subject; Historical; Comparative; DescriptiveLinguistics; Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Unit II

Language: Definitions, Properties and Functions; Language and Society; Language and Culture

Unit IIIPhonetics and Phonology; the structure of sounds in language, identification of phonemes; distinctivefeatures approach based on Chomsky and Halle (SPE); Phonological Processes; assimilation, elision,

liason, juncture.Sessional Test 15 marks

Viva-voce 05 marksTutorial Assignment 05 marks

Books Recommended:


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John Lyons:Language and Linguistics: An Introduction

Robins, R.H: General Linguistics

Halliday et al:Linguistics Sciences and Language teaching

Gleason, II A:Descriptive LinguisticsL yon J:Theoretical Linguistics

Chomsky and Halle:The Sound Patterns of English (MIT Press, 1997)

Loudlow, Peter (ed):Readings in the Philosophy of Language (MIT, 1997)V erma & Krishnaswamy:Modern Linguistics (OUP)

M.A. (ELT) I Semester

GRAMMAR, OLD AND NEW - I

PAPER III-A

2012-2013

COURSE No. : ETM 7003 75 Marks.

Credits : 04Unit I : What is grammar? Origin of grammar; grammar and language teaching; some

misconceptions; correct and incorrect; speech and writing; form and meaning.

Unit II : Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar; Latin Grammar; English Grammars; theSchool Tradition; Structural Approach.

Unit III : Transformational Generative Approach.

Sessional Test: 15Vive V oce: 05

Tutorial Assignments: 05

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Palmer, F : Grammar

2. Gleason, A. Jr. : Linguistics and English Grammar3. Allen, H. B. : Reading in Applied Linguistics

4. Brumfit, C. J. & K. Johnson : The Communicative Approach to Language

Teaching

5. Kathy Hirsch-Pasek & R.M. Golinekoff :The Origins of Grammar. 1996 MIT Press.

MA ELT Semester ILANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING:

THEORIES AND METHODLOGY-I

Paper IV-A

2012-2013Course No. : ETM 7008 75 Marks

Credits : 04

UNIT ILanguage Learning Theories: Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

Unit II

Second Language Learning Theories- I: Universal Grammar Hypothesis; Krashens Monitor Model;

Andersons Information Processing Model

Unit III

Second Language Learning Theories- II: Pidinization/ Acculturation; Discourse Theory/ FunctionalPerspectives; Neurofunctional theorySessional Test 15 marks

Viva-voce 05 marks


Books Recommended:Douglas Brown:Principles of Language Learning and Teaching

Rod Ellis: Understanding Second Language Acquisition

Mitchell and Myles:Second Language Learning Theories.

M.A. (ELT) I SemesterSYLLABUS DESIGNING AND MATERIALS PRODUCTION - I

PAPER V-A

2012-2013

COURSE No. : ETM 7005 75 Marks.Credits : 04Unit I : Syllabus and Curriculum; Definition and Scope; Features and philosophy of Syllabus


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Design; Background to a Course Design, Needs Analysis Learners profile: E

B., T. B. Age, Socio - cultural aspects, Language proficiency, etc.

Unit II : Approaches to Language Syllabus Designing: Grammatical/ Structural

/Situational; Notional/Functional, The Council of Europe Project.Unit III : Procedural syllabus; Communicative Syllabus (Integrated Approach); Specific

Purpose Syllabus; Teacher Training Syllabus; Analysis of different types of

syllabuses in view of stated objectives and needs.Sessional Test: 15Vive V oce: 05


OOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Allen and Corder : The Edinburgh Course in Applied Linguistics

2. Munby, J. : Communicative Syllabus Design

3. Wilkins, D.A. : National Syllabus4. Wilson, G. H. : Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design of

English Teaching

MA ELT II SemesterGeneral and English Phonetics- II

Paper I-B

2012-2013

Course No. ETM 8006 50 Marks

Credits : 04

Unit 1

The Sound System of English: English Sounds and Letters; English Vowels and Consonants

Phonemic & Phonetics Details; Allophonic Variations

Consonant Clusters

Syllables

Lab work on Strategies to Improve Pronunciation

Unit 2

Suprasegmental Features Word Stress

Sentence Stress

Rhythm

Strong and Weak FormsLab work on strategies to improve pronunciation

Unit 3

Connected Speech: Stress and Rhythm

Phonemic Transcription using Suprasegmental Features

Lab work related to: Performance Exercises

Using Softwares to check SoundsDeveloping Strategies to Improve Pronunciation

Lab-cum-viva voce examination = 25

Sessional Test 15 marksViva-voce 05 marksTutorial Assignment 05 marks

Books Recommended:Peter Ladefoged. 2001.A Course in Phonetics. 4

thEdn. Forthworth: Harcourt College Publishers

Mark Hancock. 2003.English Pronunciation in Use. CUP. CambridgeMartin Hewings.2004.Pronunciation Practice Activities. CUP. Cambridge

M.A. (ELT) II Semester

ELEMENTARY LINGUISTICS II

PAPER II-B

2012-2013

COURSE No. : ETM 8002 75 Marks

Credits : 04

Unit I : Morphology: The structure of words and morpheme; morph, morpheme andmorpheme variants, morphological processes; word formation processes.

Unit II : Syntax: The study of sentence structure; basic sentence patterns, phrase and


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clause structure; constituents and constructions; construction type

Unit III : Semantics: Definition and scope; Types of word meaning; types of sentence

meaning; word meaning relations and sentence meaning relations.

Sessional Test: 15Vive V oce: 05


BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Robins, R.H : General Linguistics.2. Halliday et al : Linguistics Sciences & Language

T eaching

3. Gleason, H.A : Descriptive Linguistics4. Lyons, J : Theoretical Linguistics.

5. Lasnik, Howard : Syntactic Structures Revisited.

2000. MIT Press.6. Stephen, Vain & Rosalind Thomton : Investigations in Universal Grammar

(MIT Press, 1997)

7. Hockett, C. F. : A Course in Modern LinguisticsM.A. (ELT) II Semester

GRAMMAR OLD AND NEW - II

PAPER III-B

2012-2013

COURSE No. : ETM 8003 75 Marks

Credits : 04Unit I : Communicative Approach;

Unit II : Text Grammar; cohesion and coherence; text and discourse; text and context.Unit III : Traditional v/s Modern; Eclectic Approach; Grammar of Literature:

Stylistics/Stylo-linguistics.

Sessional Test: 15

Vive V oce: 05

Tutorial Assignments: 05BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Palmer, F : Grammar2. Gleason, A. Jr. : Linguistics and English Grammer

3. Allen, H.B : Readings in Applied Linguistics

4. Brumfit, C. J. & K. Johnson : The Communicative Approach to Language

T eaching5. Chierchia, G & Sally Mc Connell-Ginet : Meaning and Grammar . 2000. MIT Press

MA ELT II Semester

Language Learning and Teaching: Theories and Methodology-II

Paper IV B

2012-2013

Course No. : ETM 8007 Max. Marks 75Credit : 04

Unit I : Language Learning Strategies and Communication Strategies;

Communicative Competence; Interlanguage Hypothesis; Error AnalysisUnit II : Methods of Language T eaching: Approach, methods and technique; The

Grammar-Translation Method; Language teaching innovations in the

nineteenth century and the Reform Movement; The Direct Method; TheAudio-Lingual Method

Unit III : Communicative Language T eaching: Origin of CLT , theoretical bases of

CLT; CLT Syllabuses; classroom activities and techniques; learner-teacher

roles; strengths and weaknesses.Sessional Test 15 marks

Viva-voce 05 marks

Tutorial Assignment 05 marksBooks Recommended:


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Pit Corder:Introducing Applied Linguistics

Douglas Brown:Principles of Language Learning and teaching

Richards and Rodgers:Apporaches and Methods in Language Teaching

A.P .R Howett:A History of English Language TeachingRod Ellis: Understanding Second Language Acquisition

Brumfit and Johnson:The Communicative Approaches to Language Teaching.

M.A. (ELT) II SemesterSYLLABUS DESIGNING AND MATERIALS PRODUCTION - II

PAPER V-B

2012-2013

COURSE No. : ETM 8005 Max. Marks 75

Credits : 04

Unit I : Role of Materials in EL T; Role relationship between Teacher - Learner - Materials;Forms and Functions of Teaching Materials; General Principles of Materials

Production: Selection/Gradation;

Unit II : Materials for Accuracy/Fluency , Materials for Linguistic/ CommunicativeProficiency, Materials for Evaluation of Language Ability Tasks, GeneralELT and ESP Materials, Lesson Plans

Unit III : Materials in Process: Using the Authentic Texts for Classroom Practices,Adopting Teaching for the Development of Language Skills: LSRW

Sessional Test: 15Vive Voce: 05


BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Allen & Corder : The Edinburgh course in Applied Linguistics.

2. Munby, J. : Communicative Syllabus Design.

3. Richards J.C & C Lorkhart, :Reflective Teaching in Second Language

Classrooms (CUP Cambridge, 1994).

4. Nunan, D. : Understanding Language Classrooms : A Guidefor Teacher Initiated Action 1989.(Hemel Hempstead. Prentice Hall.)

MA ELT III Semester

2012-2013

Teaching Oral Com munication 1

Paper VI-A

Course No. : ETM 9007 Max. Marks : 50

Credits : 04

Unit 1

English Intonation:

Role and Functions

Grammatical and Attitudinal Functions.

Unit 2 Teaching of English Pronounciation

Sounds, Accent and Rhythm

Speech Melody

Lab work:

Using Multimedia/Call Resources for Teaching English Pronunciation.

Unit 3

Problems in Pronunciation

Choice of Models in Pronunciation: RP , American English, GIE

Measures for Achieving Intelligibility for Indian Speakers of English

Lab work:Using Multimedia / CALL Resources for Designing/ T eaching Pronunciation Activities

Lab-cum-viva voce examination=25

Sessional Test 15 marksViva-voce 05 marks



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Books Recommended:

Celce-Murcia. Teaching English as a Second/ Foreign Language. 3rd edition.

Sue F . Miller.2006. Targeting Pronunciation: Communicating clearly in English. Houghton Miffin

Company (with CD/ Audiotapes)Elena Vestri Soloman and John Shelley. 2006.Key Concepts 2: Listening, Note Taking and Speaking

across the Disciplines.

Tony Lynch.2004.Study Listening. CUP. Cambridge.V . Sasikumar, P . Kiranmai Dutt & Geeta Rajeevan. 2005.A Course in Listening and Speaking Skills.Book 1&2. [CD ROM included] Foundation Books. Delhi.

Kenneth Anderson et all.2004.Study Speaking. CUP. Cambridge.

M.A. (ELT) III Semester

TEACHING GRAMMAR AND USAGE -I

PAPER VII-A2012-2013

COURSE NO.: ETM 9002

Credits: 04 75Marks

Unit 1: Grammar, Definitions and Approaches to Grammar; Place of Grammar in Language

System; Role of Grammar in Language Pedagogy.Unit II: Teaching Strategies: Memorization/Discovery; Consciousness Raising; Form/

function; Use/Usage.Unit III : Units of Grammar: Morpheme, Word, Phrase, Clause, Sentence, Word

Grammar: Word Classes, Description, Analysis and Use.

Sessional, Tutorial Assignments, Viva Voce 15+5+5=25 Marks.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

1. Quirk, et al : A University Grammar of English

2. Leech G & Svartvik, Jan: A Communicative Grammar of English3. Sandral Mckay : T eaching Grammar -- Form, Function and Technique


TEACHING WRITTEN COMMUNICATION-I

PAPER VIII-A

2012-2013

COURSE NO.: ETM 9006 75

Marks.

Credits: 04Unit I : Different Perspectives on Writing as Communication; Product Approach;

Writing Process Approaches: Expressive, Cognitive (Flower and Hayes and

Bereiter and Scardamalia); Social-Context Approach; Ethnographic and

Hallidays Social-Semiotic Approach; Genre-based Approaches.Unit II : The Scope and Functions of Discourse Analysis; Discourse Analysis and

Grammar; Discourse Analysis and Vocabulary; Elements of Written Discourse;

Units in Written Discourse : Reference, Ellipsis and Substitution, Conjunction,

Theme and Rheme; Text and Interpretation.Unit III : L1 & L2 Writing : Similarities and Differences. Strategies/Techniques of

Writing; Teaching Writing at the Primary, Intermediate and Advanced Levels.


BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

1.Flower, L,et al:Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and SocialProcess.

2.White, Ron & Valerie Arndt:Process Writing.3.Bereiter, C. & Scardamalia, M:The Psychology of Written Composition.

4.Britton, J, et al: The Development of Writing Ability (11-18).

5. Hedge, T:Writing.6.Raimes, A:T echniques in T eaching Writing.


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7. Scardamalia, M. & C. Bereiter:Research on Written Composition in M. Wittrock (ed.):Handbook of

Research on Teaching.

8. Eyre, E. C.: Effective Communication Made Simple.

9. Bailey, E. P ,et al: The Practical Writer .M.A. (ELT) III Semester

TEACHING OF LITERATURE-I

PAPER IX-A2012-2013

COURSE NO.: ETM 9004 75 Marks

Credits: 04Unit 1: What is Literature; Its Uses and Rationale in EL T; Characteristics of Literature,

Recent Perspectives; Rhetorical Devices.

UnitII: Approaches to the Study of Literature: Extrinsic (Biographical, Sociological,

Archetypal) Intrinsic (Russian Formalism, New Criticism Structural Analysis).UnitIII : Literary Competence: Cognitive activities Understanding, Interpreting,

Relating, Exploring; Classification/ Referents, Semantic Fields; the Problem of

Style; Interpretation/Evaluation.Sessional, Tutorial Assignments, Viva Voce 15+5+5=25 Marks.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. Leech, G. : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry2. Novotny, W. : The Language Poets Use

3. Reeves, J. : Teaching Poetry4. Pemberton, B. : Teaching Drama

M.A. (ELT)III SemesterTESTING AND EVALUATION-I

PAPER X-A

2012-2013

COURSE NO.: ETM 9005 75 Marks

Credits: 04Unit I : Testing and Evaluation: Definitions and Purposes; Relationship between Learning,Teaching and Evaluation; T ypes of T ests; Modes/Methods of Testing.

Unit II : Characteristics of a Good Test: Reliability, Validity and Practicality; Achieving

Beneficial Backwash: Impact of Tests; Stages of Test Construction; Test

Administration.

Unit III : Techniques of Testing: Multiple Choice; Matching; Gap-filling; True/False; Cloze;Dictation, Translation; Composition; Short Answer.


BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Harrison, D. P . : T esting English as a Second Language.2. Arthur Hughes : T esting for Language Teachers.

3. Lee, Y . P ,et al : New Dimensions in Language Testing.

4. Mamta Agarwal : A Handbook of Evaluation for Language Teachers


2012-2013

Code: MarksET5IP TEACHING PRACTICE 50

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

A.M.U. ALIGARH.

M.A. English III Semester

2012-2013

POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO MIL TON

Paper VI-ACOURSE NO. EOM 9001 Max.

Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts


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Unit II : Chaucer : *The General Prologue to The Canterbury T ales

The Pardoner s Ta le

The Knights T ale

Unit III : Spenser : *The Faerie Queen, Book I(Cantos I V for detailed study)

Shakespeare : Sonnets Nos. 17, 20, 23*, 27, 30, 42, 55*, 64,66*,86*, 116*, 125, 130*.

Sessional Tests: 15 Marks

Viva Voce: 05 MarksTutorial Assignments: 05 Marks


A.M.U. ALIGARH.


2012-2013

MODERN BRITI SH L ITERATURE UPTO 1950

Paper VII-A

COURSE NO. EOM 9002 Max.

Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : (A) T extual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)

(B) Critical questions on Y eats and Auden, T.S. Eliot and Spender.Yeats : Selections fro m P algraves

Th e Golden Tr easur y(1965 edition, OUP) No Second Tro y

*The Second Coming

*Sailing to Byz antium*Leda and the Swan

*Byzantium

T.S. Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock*The Waste Land

Auden : Selections fro m M odern V er se,

(The Worlds Classics Series)*Muses de Beaux Arts*The Shield of Achilles

*Lullaby: Lay yo ur Sleeping Head My Love

Spender : Selections fro m M odern V er se,

(The Worlds Classics Series)*The Landscape Near an Aerodrome

*The Prisoners

*The ExpressUnit II : Shaw : Ma n and Superman

Synge : Ri der s to the SeaUnit III : D.H. Lawrence : W omen in Love

Conrad : He ar t of Da rkness James Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Sessional Tests : 15 Marks

Viva Voce : 05 Marks

Tutorial Assignments : 05 MarksDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

A.M.U. ALIGARH.

M.A. English III Semester2012-2013

LI TERARY CRITICI SM

Paper VIII-A

COURSE NO. EOM 9003 Max.Marks : 75

Credits: 04


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of teaching materials; Materials for accuracy and fluenc

Unit III : Teaching of Reading: Theoretical approaches and basic concepts;

Readings strategies and types; Designing reading tasks; Assessment in

Reading Comprehension; Testing R eading Comprehension.

Sessional Tests : 15 Marks

Viva Voce : 05 MarksTutorial Assignments : 05 Marks

Note : Th ere is a ch oic e betw eenPapers IX-A and X-A.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHA.M.U. ALIGARH.


2012-2013COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

Paper XI-A

COURSE NO. EOM 9016 Max. Marks : 75Credits: 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)

Unit II : Judith Wright : *The Company of Lovers*Bullocky

*Bora RingA. D. Hope : *Australia

*The Wandering Islands

*The Lamp and the JarDerek Walcott : Leventville

The Castaway

*A Far Cry from Africa

Unit III : Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

Bharati Mukherjee : WifeSessional Tests: 15 MarksViva Voce: 05 MarksTutorial Assignments: 05 Marks

Note : There is a ch oice be tw een Pap ers XI -A , XI I-A and XII I-A.



2012-2013

CONTINENTAL FICTION

Paper XII-ACOURSE NO. EOM 9014 Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04

Unit I : Tolstoy : Anna Ka renina

Gorky : The Mother

Unit II : Dostoyevsky : The IdiotNik olai Gogol : Th e No se

The Overcoat

The PortraitNovotsky Prospekt

Unit III : Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sessional Tests : 15 MarksViva Voce : 05 Marks

Tutorial Assignments : 05 Marks

Note : There is a ch oice betw een Pap er s XI -A , XII-A an d XII I-A.DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH


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2012-2013

CONTINENTAL DRAMAPaper XIII-A

COURSE NO. EOM 9017 Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : Ibsen : A Doll s House

Strindberg : A Dream Play

Unit II : Sartre : No ExitPirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author

Unit III: (a) Kaiser : From Morn to Midnight(b) Short notes on styles and trends in Modern Drama and Character

Sketches

Sessional Tests: 15 MarksViva Voce: 05 Marks

Tutorial Assignments: 05 MarksNote : There is a ch oice betw een Pap ers XI -A , XII-A an d XII I-A.

MA ELT IV Semester

TEACHING ORAL COMMUNICATION-II

Paper VI-B

Session 2012-2013

Course No. ETM X008 50 Marks

Credit : 04

Unit 1 Nature of Oral Communication: Difference between Oral and Written Communication

Difference between V erbal and Non-V erbal Communication

Body Language; Speaker Listener RapportLab Work :

Using Call Resources/Media for Presenting Oral Communication Skill

Unit 2

Objectives and Strategies for Teaching Proficient Listening

The Use of Media in T eaching Listening

Designing Integrated Listening and Speaking Tasks

Lab Work :

Using Call Resources/Media for Presenting Oral Communication Tasks

Unit 3

Oral Communication Tasks:

Task I Oral Presentation on Formal Papers; Group Discussion; Role Play and

Conversations/Dialogues

Task II Conducting Meetings and Interviews; Compeering/Anchoring

Task III Telephonic Communication; Creative Dramatics

Lab Work :

Using Call Resources/Media for Presenting Oral Communications TasksLab-cum-viva voce = 25Sessional=15 marks

Viva voce=05 marks

Tutorial Assignment=05 marks

Books recommended:

Celce-Murcia. Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language.3rd

edition.David Kerridge, 2005.Business Role Plays. Viva Books Pvt. Ltd.

B. Jenaterop & Rod Revell, 1987.Telephoning in English. CUP. Cambridge.


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Guidelines for Practicing and Assessing Oral Communication Skills

The Presentation/Speaking Task Will

Demonstrate a clear objective of the Speaking Task assigned. Provide Prior planning time for each oral presentation

Specify appropriate content

Demonstrate Style of Vocal/Non-Vocal Delivery

Provide Instructor feedback and opportunities for improvement.

Student Presentations:

1. Each Student will make 2 presentations of 5 minute each using media during the Semester

2. There shall be 2 (20) minute pair/Group presentation using media on a topic relevant to

the course work

The course work will assess Students ability to deliver a talk by :

Learning to meet the needs of an audience

Gaining a rapport with an audience

Using Graphics/Visual information and media Improving vocal and non-vocal delivery

Handling questions

Controlling nervousness to display a sense of control and calm.M.A. ELT IV Semester

2012-2013TEACHING GRAMMAR AND USAGE II

PAPER VII-B

COURSE NO.: ETM X002

Credits: 04 75 MarksUnit 1: The Phrase: Types and Structure. The Clause: Types, Structure and Use. The

Sentence: Basic T ypes; Expansion, Transformation, Negation, Interrogation,

Passivisation, etc.Unit II: Beyond the Sentence: (a) Suprasentential Grammar, Intersentential Links:

Lexical, Grammatical, Semantic.

(b) Grammatical Analysis of a ParagraphUnit III : Usage: Correctness, Rules and Conventions; Grammaticality and Appropriacy;

Formal and Informal Usage; Language Functions and W ays o f Expressing them


BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. Quirk, et al : A University Grammar of English

2. Leech & Svartvik :A Communicative Grammar of English

3. Sandral Mckay : T eaching Grammar -- Form, Function andT echnique.

M.A. ELT IV Semester2012-2013

TEACHING WRITTEN COMMUNICATION-II

PAPER VIII-B


Credits: 04 75 Marks

Unit 1: Responding to Writing: Feedback, Cooperative Learning and Group Work;Peer-Group Responses; Teacher-Student Conferencing; Audience Awareness.

UnitII : Writing Assessment, Indirect Writing Assessment, Direct Assessment,

Portfolios; Self-Editing.

UnitIII : Tasks in L2 writing class; Task components; Types of Writing Tasks;Graphological Tasks; Language Scaffolding Tasks and Composing Tasks;

Designing Writing Tasks on Paragraph, Formal Letters, Reports, Notices andAnnouncements/Advertisements.



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BOOKS RECOMMENDED:

1. Grabe, W. & Kaplan, Robert B.Theory and Practice of Writing: An Applied Linguistics.

2. Elbow, P: Writing Without T eachers.

3. Hughey, J. B.,et al-T eaching ESL Composition: Principles and Techniques.4. White, Ron & Valerie Arndt:Process Writing.

5. Hedge, T: Writing.

6. Raimes, A:T echniques in T eaching Writing.7. Narayanaswamy: Strengthen Your Writing8. Eyre, E.C.:Effective Communication Made Simple

9. Bailey, E. P ,et al: The Practical Writer .

M.A. ELT IV Semester

2012-2013

TEACHING OF LITERATURE-IIPAPER IX-B


Credits: 04 75 MarksUnit1 : Teaching a Poem: Deviant Language of Poetry: Poetic Diction, Word order,

Figurative Language, Prosody.

Unit II : Teaching Drama: Major ingredients of a play; Dialogue in action; Dramaticeffect and Stylistic Features.

Unit III : Teaching Prose; Teaching a Prose Passage; Teaching Fiction: Stylistic andAnalytical Techniques; T ext Linguistics.


BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. Leech, G. : A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry

2. Novotny, W. : The Language Poets Use

3. Reeves, J. : Teaching Poetry

4. Pemberton, B. : T eaching Drama

M.A. ELT IV Semester2012-2013

TESTING AND EVALUATION-II

PAPER X-B


Credits: 04 75 MarksUnit I : (a) Characteristics of Communicative Test; Testing Grammar; Testing

Vocabulary; T esting Reading Comprehension.

(b) Construction of Items

Unit II : (a) Testing Writing; Testing Speaking; Testing Listening.(b) Construction of Items

UnitIII : Interpreting/Using Test Results: Mean; Median; Percentile; Standard Deviation;

Standard Error of Measurement; Correlation Co-efficient; Item Difficulty andItem Analysis; Discrimination Index; Analysis of Distractors; Special Factors

Affecting Scores.


BOOKS RECOMMENDED:1. Harrison, D. P . : T esting English as a Second Language.

2. Arthur Hughes : T esting for Language Teachers.

3. Lee, Y . P . et al : New Dimensions in Language Testing.4. Mamta Agarwal : A Handbook of Evaluation for Language Teachers.

M.A. ELT IV Semester

2012-2013Code: Marks

ET5ID PROJECT 50

M.A. English IV Semester


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2012-2013POETRY FROM CHAUCER TO MILTON

Paper VI-BCOURSE NO. EOM X001Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)Unit II : Donne : The following poems

from Helen Gardeners anthology :

The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin)

*The Good Morrow

*The Flea*The Sunne Rising

*The Canonization

*The Extasie*The Relique*This is my pla ys last scene

Andrew Marvell : *To His Coy Mistress*On a Drop of Dew

*The Garden

George Herbert : The Agonie

*The Collar

*Jordan (I)

Crashaw : A Hymne of the Nativity

Unit III: Milton : *Paradise Lost Books I and II(Book I for detailed study)

ComusSessional Tests : 15 Marks


Tutorial Assignments : 05 Marks

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M.A. English IV Se mester

2012-2013

MODERN BRITISH LITERATURE AFTER 1950

Paper VII-BCOURSE NO. EOM X004

Max. Marks: 75


(B) Critical questions on Philip Larkin, T ed Hughes and Seamus Heaney .Philip Larkin : Poetry of Departures

Toads Revisited* Mr Bleany

* Churchgoing

Ted Hughes : *Hawk Roosting*Thought Fox

Hawk in the Rain

Seamus Heaney : *Traditions

PunishmentThe Railway Children

Unit II Angus W ilson : La te Ca ll

Paul Scott Staying on

John Fowles : The French Lieutenant s W omanUnit III Harold Pinter : The Birthday Party

Arnold Wesker : Chicken Soup with Barley


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M.A. English IV Se mester2012-2013

CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY

Paper VIII-B

COURSE NO. EOM X005 Max. Marks : 75Credits: 04

Unit 1 A). Conceptual Framework of Contemporary Literary Theory: HistoricalBackground (Literary Criticism and Literary Theory, Literature and Experience,

Literary Tradition, Literary Production and Consumption), Philosophical

Background (brief introduction to concepts of Russian Formalism, Empiricism,Phenomenology, Linguistic Determinism, Intention and meaning, Author, textand reader).

B). Debates, controversies and arguments in the 1980s; the EnglishSynthesis; the weakening of the English Synthesis: Impact of theory on

English Studies.Unit 2 A). Structuralism: Language & Literature as Structure; Structuralist

Narratology; implications of Structualism for the study of literature.

B). Deconstruction: Critique of logocentricism; undecidability ofmeaning; difference and dissemination; American deconstruction.

C). Psychoanalytic Theory: Discovery of the Unconscious: Freud;

Deviations from Freudian mapping of the Unconscious: Jung and Otto

Rank; Ego-centrist approach to theory and practice of psychoanalysis: the

American School; Lacan and his revolt against ego-centristpsychoanalysis.Unit 3 A). New Historicism: The culturescape of American; conditions

necessitating the deviation from historicism and dialectical materialism;

the theory.

B). Cultural Materialism: The culturescape of Europe; impact of World

Wars and Fascism; the theory.C). Feminism: Relationship of theory to Feminism; critique of

androcentricism, gynocriticism.



Suggested Readings :

Roger Webster,Studying Literary Theory (Second Edition, Arnold, London, 1996)Raman Seldan,Practising Theory and Reading Literature : An Introduction(Hemel Hempstead,

Harvester , 1989).

Art Berman,From the New Criticism to Deconstruction (University of Illoinois Press, Urbana and

Chicago)Terry Eagleton,Literary Theory : An Introduction (Blackwell : 1983)

Terence Howkes,Structuralism and Semiotics (Methuen : 1997)

Christopher Norris, Deconstruction : Theory and Practice (Routledge, 1991)Maggie Humm,Feminisms : A Reader (Longman, 1992)

K. K. Ruthren,Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge, 1984)

H. Aram V eeser (ed.),The New Historicism (Routledge 1989)

Jonathan Dollimore and Sinfield, Alan (eds.),Political Shakespeare : New Essays in CulturalMaterialism (Manchester University Press, 1994)

Raman Selden, Peter Widdowson and Brooker, Peter,A Reader : Guide to Contemporary Literary

Theory (Harvester, 1996)Maud Ellmann (ed.)Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (Longman, 1994)


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David Lodge and Wood Nigel (eds.)Modern Criticism and Theory : A Reader (Longman, 1999).

Patricia Waugh (ed)Literary Theory and Criticism (OUP , 2006)

M. H. Abrams,A Glossary of Literary Terms.(Macmillan)



2012-2013AMERICAN L ITERATURE

Paper IX-BCOURSE NO. EOM X011 Max. Marks : 75


Unit II : Walt Whitman : Song of Myself

*Crossing Brooklyn Ferry*Out of the Cradle

Emily Dickinson : Select i ons inAmer ican L i tera tur e

(1890 to 1965)*The following poems:67, 130, 258, 303, 341, 465, 511, 712, 812, 1100,

1463, 1760. (All poems for detailed stud y)Robert Frost : Select i ons inAmer ican L i tera tur e

(1890 to 1965) U rasia, 1966*Mending Wall

After Apple-Picking

The Road Not T akenBirches

Dust of Snow

Once by the Pacific

Acquainted w ith the Night

*West-running BrookCarl Sandburg : I am the People, the MobWho am I?Chicago

Unit III : Eugene ONeill : The Hairy Ape

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

Edward Albee : The Zoo StorySessional Tests: 15 Marks

Viva Voce: 05 Marks

Tutorial Assignments: 05 Marks

Note : Th ere is a choice bet we en Pa pers IX -B an d X- B.


A.M.U. ALIGARH.M.A. English IV Se mester

2012-2013

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

(ELT)

Paper X-BCOURSE NO. EOM X012

Max. Marks : 75Credits: 04

Un it I : Teaching of Writing: Writing as Communication; Approaches to Writing; Flower &

Hayes Model of Writing; Assessing Writing; Task Component; Designing Writing

Tasks..Unit II : Teaching Oral Communication: Teaching the sounds of English; the

syllable; word stress, sentence stress, rhythm and intonation in English.

Unit III : Grammar , Communication T echnology and Test ing in ELT: Role ofgrammar in language pedagogy; types of grammar; Application of


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Communicative Technology in ELT; Place of testing in ELT curriculu;

T ypes of tests and their objectives.



Note : Th ere is a choice bet we en Pa pers IX -B an d X- B.



2012-2013

COMMONWEAL TH LITERATURE

Paper XI-BCOURSE NO. EOM X013 Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred texts)

Unit II : Sarojini Naidu : *Love and Death

EcstasyThe Magic of SpringThe Palanquin Bearers

*Dirge (In sorrow of her bereavement)Death and Life

Kamala Das : *My Grandmother's House*The Sunshine Cat

A Hot Noon in Malabar

The InvitationNissim Ezekiel : *Philosophy

*Night of the Scorpion

*The Visitor

Enterprise

BackgroundA. K. Ramanujan : Conventions of DespairSnakes

Keki N. Daruwala : The Mistress

Parsi Hell

Prescribed Anthology: R. Parthasarthy,(ed.),Ten 20th Century Indian Poets,(OUP)

Unit III: R. K. Narayan : The Financial ExpertRaja Rao : The Serpent and the Rope

Amitava Ghosh : The Glass Palace.

Anita Desai :Where Shall W e Go This Summer?

Sessional Tests: 15 MarksViva Voce: 05 Marks

Tutorial Assignments: 05 Marks

Note : Th er e is a ch oi ce between Pap ers XI-B, XI I-B and XII I-B. DEPARTMENT OF

ENGLISH

A.M.U. ALIGARH.


2012-2013

CONTINENTAL FICTIONPaper XII-B

COURSE NO. EOM X014 Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04

Unit I : Milan Kundera : The Unbearable Lightness of BeingThomas Mann : Buddenbro oks

Unit II: Guy de Maupassant : The following short stories are prescribed:

1 . The Necklace

2. A Family3. The Devil


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4. Simons Papa

5. The False Gems

Gustave Flaubert : Madame Bo va ry

Unit III: Franz Kafka : The CastleSessional Tests : 15 Marks


Tutorial Assignments : 05 MarksNote : There is a ch oice betw eenPapers XI-B, XI I-B and XII I-B.


A.M.U. ALIGARH.


2012-2013

CONTINENTAL DRAMA

Paper XIII-BCOURSE NO. EOM X017

Max. Marks : 75

Credits: 04Unit I : (a) Brecht : The Caucasian Chalk Circle

(b) Short notes on styles and trends in Modern Drama and Character Sketches

Unit II: Chekhov : The Cherry OrchardGorky : Lower Depths

Unit III: Beckett : Waiting for GodotIonesco : The Chairs



Note : There is a ch oice betw eenPapers XI-B, XI I-B and XII I-B. VIVA VOCE (EOM X0V1) 100 Marks

M.A. English I Semester

2012-2013ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE AND DRAMA

(Excluding Shakespeare)

PAPER-IACOURSE NO. EOM7001 Max. Marks: 75

Credits : 4

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starred

texts)Unit II : Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy

Webster : *The Duchess of Malfi Unit III : Marlowe : *Dr . Faustus

Ben Jonson : The AlchemistSessional Test : 15 marks

Viva V oce : 05 marks

Tutorial Assignments : 05 marks

M.A. English II Semester

2012-2013 ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE AND DRAMA


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(Excluding Shakespeare)P APER I-B

COURSE NO. EOM-8001 Max. Marks : 75

Credits :04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starredtexts)Unit II : Sidney : An Apologie for Po es ie

Bacon : Es says : 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 50Unit III : Bunyan : The Pilgrim s Progress

Robert Burton : *The Anatomy of Melancholy (Selections)1. *The Authors Abstract of Melancholy (Rhymed)from partition I, Section 2 Causes of Melancholy

2. God, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 1)3. Sorrow, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 4)4. Fear , a Cause of Melancholy (Member 3, Subsect 5)5. Education, a Cause of Melancholy (Member 4, Subsect

2)Fr om partition I, Sec tion 3 Symptoms ofMe lan choly

6. Symptoms of Head Melancholy (Member 2, Subsect 1)7. Symptoms of Melancholy Abounding in the Whole Body

(Member 2, Subsect 3)From partition II, Section 2 Remedies against Melancholy

8. *Music, a Remedy (Member 6, Subsect 3) from partition II, Section

39. Remedies Against Melancholy Itself (Member VII I)From partition II I, Section 1 LoveMelancholy

10. *Pleasant Objects of Love (Member 2, Subsect 2)Sessional Test : 15 marks

Viva V oce : 05 marks



2012-2013 SHAKESPEARE

PAPER I I - A


Credits : 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starredtexts)

Unit II : *Twelfth Night

Henry IVPart IUnit III : *Hamlet

Measur e for Measur eSessional Test : 15 marks

Viva Voce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


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2012-2013SHAKESPEAREPAPER I I - B

COURSE NO. EOM - 8006 Max. Marks : 75Credits : 04Unit I : T extual ques t ions (passages for explanat ion from the s tarred tex ts )

Unit II : *King Lear*The Winters T ale

Unit III : Shakespeare Criticism(i) Johnson and Coleridge

Extracts from Shakespeare Criticism: A Sel ection ,ed. D. Nichol Smith(ii) Trends in Modern Shakespeare Criticism-Bradley

and after: L. C. Knights, G. Wilson Knight, R. B.Heilman, D. G. James, Irving, Ribner, Terry Eagleton,Sessional Test : 15 marksViva Voce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


2012-2013 RESTORATION AND EI GHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE

P A PE R I I I - A


Credits : 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starredtexts)Unit II : Dryden : MacFlecknoe

Pope : *The Rape of the LockEp is tle to Dr . Arbu thnot

Unit III : Gray : * Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard*The Progress of Poesy

W. Collins : To EveningBlake : Songs of Experience

* Introduction, * Earths Answer, * The Tyger, * The Little GirlLost, * The Little Girl Found, * The Little Vagabond, * T o Tirzah,

* The V oice of the Ancient Bard, * My Pretty Rose-Tree,* Ah, Sun-Flower,* A Little Boy Lost, * The Schoolboy, * London,

* The Chimney-SweeperThe remaining poems ofSongs of Experience are fo r non-detailed study

Sessional Test : 15 marksViva Voce : 05 marks



2012-2013 RESTORATION AND EI GHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE

P A PE R I I I - B

COURSE NO. EOM-8003 Max. Marks : 75Credits : 04


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texts)

Unit II : Selections from The SpectatorThe following eight essays:

Addison * The Spectator s Account of Himself

* Sir Roger at HomeCharacter of Will W imble

Sir Roger at ChurchRural Manners

Steele The Coverley Household* Sir Rogers AncestorsOf the Club

Swift : *Gullivers Travels (Only Book I for detailed study)

Unit III : Congreve : The Way of the W orldDaniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe Sheridan : The Rivals

Sessional Test : 15 marksViva Voce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


2012-2013LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

PAPER IV-A

COURSE NO. EOM-7004 Max. Marks : 75Credits : 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starredtexts)Unit II : Wortdsworth : *The Prelude (1805) Bk. I

(ed. Selincourt)

*Tintern AbbeyImmortality Ode

Lucy Poems 1. She dwelt among the untrodden ways

2. Three years she grew in sun and

showerColeridge : *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

*Dejection : An Ode

*Kubla Khan Unit III : Byron : Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (Cantos I-IV)

* When we two parted* She walks in Beauty

* Stanzas for Music* Sonnet on Chillon

Shelley : The Mask of Anarchy

Adonais, * Ode to the West Wind


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Keats : Endymion , Book I

* Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to PsycheOde to Autumn,* Ode to a Nightingale

Sessional Test : 15 marksViva V oce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


2012-2013 LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

PAPER IV-BCOURSE NO. EOM-8004 Max. Marks : 75

Credits : 04


texts)Unit II : Scott : The Heart of Midlothian

Jane Austen : PersuasionUnit III : Hazlitt : Selections

(ed. G. Sampson)The following essays :* My First Acquaintance with Poets,* On Going a Journey

Indian JugglersOn the Ignorance of the LearnedOn Reading Old Books

Lamb : Es says of El ia * Dream Children * Mackery End in Herfordshire* Poor Relations* Old ChinaThe Wedding

Sessional Test : 15 marks

Viva Voce : 05 marks

Tutorial Assignments : 05 marksM.A. English I Semester

2012-2013 VICTORIAN LITERATURE

PAPER V-A


Credits : 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from thestarred texts)Unit II : Tennyson : The following poems:

The Lotus Eaters

* The Palace of ArtThe Two Voices


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* Ulysses

In Memoriam

Browning : *Andrea del SartoThe Grammarians FuneralThe Last Ride T ogether

Rabbi ben EzraPorphyrias Lover

Unit III : Arnold : Dover BeachSummer NightTo Marguerite (Y ea, in the sea of life)Shakespeare* The Scholar-Gipsy

Hopkins : * The Windhover

* The Starlight NightNo worst, there is noneSessional Test : 15 marksViva V oce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


2012-2013 VICTORIAN LITERATURE

PAPER V-ACOURSE NO. EOM-7007 Max. Marks : 75

Credits : 04

Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from thestarred texts)Unit II : Tennyson : The following poems:

The Lotus Eaters * The Palace of ArtThe Two Voices* Ulysses

In Memoriam Browning : *Andrea del Sarto

The Grammarians Funeral

The Last Ride T ogether

Rabbi ben EzraPorphyrias LoverUnit III : Arnold : Dover Beach

Summer NightTo Marguerite (Y ea, in the sea of life)

Shakespeare* The Scholar-Gipsy

Hopkins : * The Windhover* The Starlight Night

No worst, there is noneSessional Test : 15 marks

Viva V oce : 05 marksTutorial Assignments : 05 marks


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2012-2013VICTORIAN LITERATUREPAPER V -B


Credits : 04Unit I : Textual questions (passages for explanation from the starredtexts) Style and Short Notes from DavidCopperfield, V anity Fair, Unto This Last.Unit II : Dickens : Da vid Copper field

Thackeray : V anity FairGeorge .Eliot : Middlemarch

Unit III : Pater : Appr ec iations : (only two essays)

* Style,ColeridgeRuskin : Unto this LastOscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Earnest

Sessional Test : 15 marksViva Voce : 05 marks

Tutorial Ass gnments : 05 marks

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