Understand the nature and importance of the English language. 🌍
Identify the proficiency, interests, and needs of learners in the context of grammar and vocabulary. 📝
Develop activities and tasks for English language learners. 📖
Apply methods, approaches, and materials for teaching English at different levels in the Indian context. 👩🏫👨🏫
Develop language skills: listening, speaking, writing, and reading for communication purposes. 👂🗣️📝📖
📘 Syllabus
SECTION–A
Language: meaning, nature, and its roles. Difference between home language and school language and role of home language/Mother tongue in learning the school language/foreign language. 🏠🏫
History and Status of the English language in India: Basic linguistic principles, objectives, methods: Translation, Bilingual, Direct, Approaches: Structural, Situational, and Communicative. Presentation skills; Extempore, Role-playing, Storytelling, Situational conversations etc. 📜
SECTION-B
Developing Language Skills i.e. listening & speaking; brief introduction about the sounds of English, Phonetics and teaching of pronunciation. Mechanics &Methods of Reading; Letter and non-letter methods, silent & loud reading, intensive & extensive reading, and reading for comprehension. 👂🗣️📖
Use of dictionary & thesaurus as resources in teaching and learning the language. Grammar its different types and methods of teaching Grammar; Inductive & deductive. 📚🔍
Activities (Any one of the following)
Discussion on the problems of English language at the elementary level. 🗣️
Identification of spelling errors at the elementary level and remedial measures. 📝
Identification of pronunciation errors at the elementary level and remedial measures. 👂
📚 Books Recommended
Hood, Philip and Tobutt, Kristina (2015). Teaching Language in the Primary School. Sage. 📖
Gordon, J. (2014). (2015). Teaching English in the Secondary Schools. Sage. 📖
Gurrey, P. (1954). The teaching of written English. London: Longmans Green and Co. 📖
Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh (1972). Teaching English. Regional Institute of English, Chandigarh. 📖
Bhatia, Achla & Kaur, Ravjeet (2011). Modern Teaching of English. Patiala: Twenty-First Century Publications. 📖
📝 Previous Year Question Papers of Teaching of English