Syllabus Seventh Semester

Year 4, Semester VII

1.         ELT (English Language Teaching)

ü    Methods of Language Teaching

·         Approach, Method and Technique

·         Selected ELT Methods: Grammar-Translation, Direct Method,

                        Audio-lingual, etc.

·         ELT models for Pakistan

ü    Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills

·         Nature of Oral Communication

·         Theory and techniques of teaching listening and speaking

·         Lesson Planning for Teaching Oral Skills

ü    Theory and Practice of Teaching Reading Skills

·         Nature of Reading

·         Theories of Reading – Interactive and Schema

·         Designing activities for reading skills

·         Lesson Planning for teaching reading

ü    Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing Skills

·         Nature of Writing

·         Theories of Writing – Product and Process

·         Lesson Planning for teaching writing

·         Techniques for giving feedback and correcting written work

ü    Teaching English Pronunciation

2.         Classics in Novel- II (Modern)    

ü  Joseph Conrad, Heart Of Darkness

ü  D.H. Lawrence, Women In Love

ü  J. Joyce, The Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man

ü  Virginia Woolf, To The Light House

ü  William Faulkner, The Sound And The Fury

3.         Stylistics

ü  Introduction

·         What is stylistics?

·         Subject and Discipline

·         Stylistics as a Bridge between Linguistics and Literature.

·         Literature as Text and as Discourse

ü        The Nature of Literary Communication. 

ü        Literature as Foregrounded Language.

ü        The Theory of Deviation and its Application to the Study of Poetry

·         Lexical, Grammatical, Phonological, Semantic, Dialectal deviation

·         Deviation of Register

·         Deviation of Historical Period

ü        Parallelism

·         Scheme as Foregrounded repetitions of expression e.g. Verbal repetition and its poetic effects, Rhythm and Rhyme.

·         New concepts of meter such as Measure.  Tropes as Foregrounded irregularities of content: figurative language i.e. metaphor, oxymoron, synecdoche, irony, hyperbole, litotes etc.

ü        The stylistic analysis and appreciation of the short stories, poems        and     essays (Written in the form of assignments and Oral in the  form of Class    Presentations or Seminars) with reference to concepts such as conflict,          the Narrative Voice,  Irony etc.          

4.            Research Mechanics/Methodology (Applied Linguistics And Literature)

Ø  Introduction: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Paradigms

Ø  Identifying and Defining a Research Problem

Ø  Selection Of the Topic and delimitation of The Topic

Ø  Ethical Considerations

Ø  Sampling Techniques

Ø  Tools for Data Collection: Questionnaires, Interviews, Observation &

Ø  Documents

Ø  Data analysis and Interpretation

Ø  Some Aspects of the Research Work

·         Review of literature

·         Transcription and Transliteration

·         Referencing and Citation

5.         Language Assessment

• The contexts in which language assessment takes place;

• Concepts, principles and limitations of measurement;

• The educational and research uses of language assessment;

• The nature of the language abilities that affect performance on language assessment      instruments;

• The characteristics of assessment methods that affect performance on language          assessment instruments;

• Procedures for investigating the reliability of assessment results and the validity of the            uses of assessment results;

• Current issues and problems in language assessment and language assessment        research.

• Evaluating and designing tests for assessing different language skills and grammar.