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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

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The Syllabus

Language and Society
  • Linguistic Diversity in India: Contributing Factors
  • Standard Dialects and Language of Instructions
  • Development of Language: Dialects, Regional Variation and Scripts

Language and Learning
  • Home Language and School Language
  • Language Learning: from mother tongue to other tongue
  • Language Learning: Role of a Subject Teacher

Understanding Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)
  • How Language varies: Everyday Registers and Academic Registers
  • Language as a tool of communication: Features and Structure
  • Language Across Curriculum (LAC) Approach: Basic Assumptions, Characteristics and Need

Language as a Space for Discourse
  • Classroom Discourse and its Features
  • Negotiated Interactions and Classroom Interaction Competence
  • Classroom Discourse- repair, Speech Modification, and Scaffolding

Teaching Listening across the Curriculum
  • Various forms/types of listening
  • Listening Across the Curriculum: Developing Strategies
  • Assessing Listening: Tools and Strategies
  • Listening Comprehension

Developing the Speaking Abilities
  • Understanding Spoken Discourses
  • Speak to Learn and Learn to Speak
  • Speaking abilities across the Curriculum

Reading Comprehension
  • Developing critical reading skills
  • Reading Visuals, KWL Chart
  • Reading comprehension
  • Features of a text, various forms of text

Writing across the Curriculum
  • Writing as a Process
  • Forms of writing
  • Writing Across the Curriculum
  • Writing Speech Thinking

Assessing Language Across the Curriculum
  • Assessing writing: Tools and strategies

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