English Communication

By Dr. Kshema Jose | The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

Learners enrolled: 8413

This course helps students improve their use of English by developing their ability to listen, speak, read, and write in English in personal, professional, and social settings.

The course attempts to encourage and motivate students to learn English, improve their levels of proficiency in English, and use English in academic and real-world situations by providing lessons, activities, tasks, techniques, and strategies for understanding, communicating, and interacting in English.

By the end of the course, students would have not only improved their proficiency in the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but also gained familiarity with 21^st century communication practices such as digital reading and writing, and speaking using digital tools.

Acknowledging that digital literacy – speaking, reading, and writing using digital tools is an essential 21^st century skill, the course attempts to help students engage with digital tools in order to learn, communicate, and create.

Secondly, to maintain a strong focus on facilitating students’ use of English for academic purposes, to their meet social needs, and to cater to their future professional needs, the course has as its target user the Indian undergraduate. A third significant learning gain is that the course uses, recommends, and promotes use of Indian English.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to

demonstrate accuracy and fluency in spoken and written communication
make informed choices about ways to communicate formally and informally
read and comprehend texts and engage with them critically
listen to and comprehend texts and engage with them critically
acquire familiarity with a few key interpersonal skills, and
develop language literacy in the digital medium.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Not Applicable
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	10 weeks
Category :	Language
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jan 2024
End Date :	30 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends :	29 Feb 2024
Exam Date :	25 May 2024 IST
Exam Shift :	Shift - II (15:00 - 18:00)

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week-1: Introductory lectures

Lecture 1. What is communication?
Lecture 2. Barriers in communication
Lecture 3. The process of communication
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Week-2: Speaking and Listening I

Module 1. Sustained monologues
Module 2. Listening for meaning
Module 3. Dialogues – I
Module 4. Dialogues – II
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Week-3: Speaking and Listening II

Module 1. Interviews
Module 2. Group discussions
Module 3. Presentation skills
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Week-4: Reading

Module 1. What, why and how of reading
Module 2. Reading for main ideas
Module 3. Text structure and note making
Module 4. Critical reading
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Week-5: Writing

Module 1. Summarising
Module 2. Essay Writing
Module 3. Formal letters and Emails
Module 4. CVs
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Week-6: Digital Literacy

Module 1. Writing for newspapers vs social media
Module 2. Digital content writing
Module 3. Online presentation skills
Module 4: Nature, scope, and potential of digital literacy
Assignment and interaction/forum activity

Books and references

Instructor bio

Dr. Kshema Jose

The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

Kshema Jose is a teacher educator, language teacher, and English language education researcher working in the Department for Training and Development, School of English Language Education at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. She received her PhD in reading comprehension of hypertexts from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India.

As a teacher educator, she conducts teacher training and trainer training programmes on integrating digital literacy into English language instruction. Courses she teaches at her university include, ‘Digital Literacy: Fundamental Concepts,’ ‘Evaluating Online Language Learning,’ ‘E-learning Instruction Design,’ ‘English Language Arts’ ‘AI in the ESL Classroom’ and ‘Use of Web 2.0 Tools in the ESL classroom’.

As a language teacher, she teaches courses that facilitate students’ English language proficiency by linking development of presentation skills with multimodal writing skills.

As an English language education researcher, she guides research in digital literacies. Her areas of research interest are multiliteracies, collaborative virtual learning environments, multimodal pedagogies, and autonomy in language learning.

Her significant publications are all in the fields of hypertext reading, digital literacies, multimodal pedagogies, and learner autonomy. She is author, co-author, and editor of course books in English for learners from primary to undergraduate levels, for various publishers. She has also written and edited training materials for ESL teachers and teacher trainers.