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 21st 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 21st 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
| Course Status : | Upcoming |
| Course Type : | Elective |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 8 weeks |
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| Credit Points : | 2 |
| Level : | Undergraduate |
| Start Date : | 13 Jan 2025 |
| End Date : | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 28 Feb 2025 |
| Exam Date : | 24 May 2025 IST |
| NCrF Level : | 4.5 |
| Industry Details : | Any industry that requires use of English |
| Exam Shift: : | Shift-II |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
Week-1: Introductory lectures
Week-2: Speaking and Listening I
Week-3: Speaking and Listening II
Week-4: Reading
Week-5: Writing
Week-6: Digital Literacy
The Empower Series of books for listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The Real Series of books for listening, speaking, reading and writing.
The Concise Adair on communication and presentation skills. Edited by Neil Thomas, 2021
Communication Skills.
Richard Worth, 1997
Improve your communication skills.
Alan Barker, 2013
Academic Communication Skills.
Li-Shih Huang, 2010
Developing Communication Skills.
Meera Banerji, Krishna Mohan, 2000
Communication Skills.
Sanjay Kumar, Pushp Lata, 2015
Practice makes perfect: English Conversation.
Yates, 2016
English for Everyone. 2019
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.
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