Vision:

• The mainstay of the vision of the Department of English is to train students in competent communication skills to prepare them for their professional needs in the globalized scenario prevalent today.

Mission:

The Department is committed to the mission of working zestfully and resourcefully to imparting the life values and presentation skills through literature.

• The turn of the twenty first century has made the English Language skills a passport to the job market to all job seekers. Ability to communicate well in English has become a hallmark of good educational foundation and a prerequisite for all graduates.
• The students are trained to possess a measurable knowledge and a set of skills in using English language in personal and professional life.

Semester-I English Praxis Course-I : A Course in Communication and Soft Skills

Semester-II English Praxis Course -II : A Course in Reading & Writing Skills

Semester-III English Praxis Course -III: A Course in Conversational Skills

English Syllabus-Semester-I

English Praxis Course-I

A Course in Communication and Soft Skills

1. UNIT: Listening Skills
2. Importance of Listening
3. Types of Listening
4. Barriers to Listening
5. Effective Listening
6. UNIT: Speaking Skills
7. Sounds of English: Vowels and Consonants
8. Word Accent
9. Intonation
10. UNIT: Grammar
11. a) Concord
12. b) Modals
13. c) Tenses (Present/Past/Future)
14. d) Articles
15. e) Prepositions
16. f) Question Tags
17. g) Sentence Transformation (Voice, Reported Speech & Degrees of Comparison)
18. h) Error Correction
19. UNIT: Writing
20. Punctuation
21. Spelling
22. Paragraph Writing
23. UNIT: Soft Skills
24. SWOC
25. Attitude
26. Emotional Intelligence
27. Telephone Etiquette
28. Interpersonal Skills

English Syllabus-Semester-II

English Praxis Course-II

A Course in Reading & Writing Skills

1. UNIT

Prose : 1. How to Avoid Foolish Opinions Bertrand Russell

Skills : 2. Vocabulary: Conversion of Words

: 3. One Word Substitutes

: 4. Collocations

1. UNIT

Prose : 1. The Doll's House Katherine Mansfield

Poetry : 2. Ode to the West Wind P B Shelley

Non-Detailed Text : 3. Florence Nightingale Abrar Mohsin

Skills : 4. Skimming and Scanning

1. UNIT

Prose : 1. The Night Train at Deoli Ruskin Bond

Poetry : 2. Upagupta Rabindranath Tagore

Skills : 3. Reading Comprehension

: 4. Note Making/Taking

1. UNIT

Poetry : 1. Coromandel Fishers Sarojini Naidu

Skills : 2. Expansion of Ideas

: 3. Notices, Agendas and Minutes

V.UNIT

Non-Detailed Text : 1. An Astrologer's Day R K Narayan

Skills : 2. Curriculum Vitae and Resume

: 3. Letters

: 4. E-Correspondence

English Syllabus-Semester-III

English Praxis Course-III

A Course in Conversational Skills

1. UNIT

Speech : 1. Tryst with Destiny Jawaharlal Nehru

Skills : 2. Greetings

: 3. Introductions

1. UNIT

Speech : 1. Yes, We Can Barack Obama

Interview : 2. A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure

Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam/ India Knowledge at Wharton

Skills : 3. Requests

1. UNIT

Interview : 1. Nelson Mandela's Interview With Larry King

Skills : 2. Asking and Giving Information

: 3. Agreeing and Disagreeing

1. UNIT

Interview : 1. JRD Tata's Interview With T.N.Ninan

Skills : 2. Dialogue Building

: 3. Giving Instructions/Directions

1. UNIT
2. Speech : 1. You've Got to Find What You Love Steve Jobs

Skills : 2. Debates

: 3. Descriptions

: 4. Role Play

A dedicated space with 30 well equipped computers is set up in the college. The purpose of setting up the lab is to enable students learn language with proficiency with the access of audio or audio-visual materials.

English communication skills lab develops the students a habit of listening and speaking with accurate pronunciation. It includes English courses, English listening audio, English language studies and also English comprehension.

This allows students to practice the language with a much wider variety of activities and exercises based on the computer.

• Speak fluently in English
• Participate confidently in any social interaction
• Face any professional discourse
• Enhance conversational skills by observing the professional interviews