AKTU English for Professional Communication (BBFA202) Syllabus PDF – BFA 1st Year

Objective of the Course:

To impart basic skills of communication in English through intensive practice to the first year UG students of engineering so as to enable them to function confidently and effectively in that language in the professional sphere of their life.

Desired Entry Behaviour:

The student must have some basic command of English that he must be able to:

Write reasonably grammatically.

Understand (if not use) at least some 2500 general-purpose words of English.

Use some 2000 (at least 1500) general-purpose words of English to express himself in writing and 1500 such words to talk about day to day events and experiences of life.

Understand slowly- delivered spoken material in Standard Indian English, and Speak Reasonably clearly (if not fluently) on routine matters with his fellow students.

Tea chi ng Method:

The topics must be covered essentially through plenty of examples; lecture classes must be conducted as lecture-cum-tutorial classes.

It is a course that aims to develop skills. Itis therefore ಯpracticaOರ in orientation plenty of exercises of various kinds must be done by the students both inside and outside the classroom.

The teacher must not depend on a single or a set of two or three textbooks. He must choose his materials from diverse sources.

Keeping in view the requirements of his students, the teacher may have to prepare some teaching and exercise materials.

For Practice in listening, good tape recorders can be used if the more advanced facilities (for example, language laboratory) are not available. In fact they can be used very fruitfully. The teacher must function as a creative monitor in the classroom.

Minimum time should be spent in teaching phonetic symbols, stress, information, etc. The aim should be to enable the student to find out for himself the correct pronunciation of s word from a learners dictionary.

In teaching speaking, emphasis should be on clarity, intelligibility and reasonable fluency rather than no “correct” pronunciation of words. Classroom presentation and group discussion sessions should be used to teach speaking.

Key concepts

1. Language/Communication in context: communication as a means of sharing information, speakers-listener and reader-writer relationship, process, importance, purpose, features of communication (accuracy, brevity, clarity and appropriateness in communication), barriers to communication, personal and interpersonal communication.
2. Writing Skills: Learning words for general purpose, use through situations, sentence formation and use of given set of words in different contexts, usages of words in different tenses, aspect and moods, narrative in first, second and third person, meaning and usages of connectives, modifiers and models, phrasal verbs, connotations, various types of sentences and paragraphs, features of paragraph (cohesion and coherence).
3. Speaking Skills: Speech and verbal communication, articulation (pronunciation of different sounds and words i.e. vowels, consonants, diphthongs, (IPA Chart) and words), paralinguistic features, formal informal speaking, extempore, discussion and presentation.
4. Reading Comprehension: kinds and types of reading texts, basic steps to effective reading, abstracting, précis writing and summarising taking examples from different texts.
5. Listening Comprehension: process and types of listening, steps of listening, barriers to listening, Fluency & speed, impact of pronunciation on comprehension through various texts, intelligent listening. Practice exercises I: vocabulary and conversation exercises on the newly learnt words, transcription of words, understanding of tenses, enhancing conversation skills, reading & listening Comprehension of simple passages with exercises Practice exercises II: conceptual inputs on presentation skills and conducting presentations. Note: 90 days of working/teaching (including internal assessment)