Contents: -

Unit I - Preliminary Statement
1. The status of English in India today

2. Aims of teaching English

3. Objectives of teaching English as a second language

4. Contribution of linguistics and psychology to the teaching of English

5. Teaching the communication skills

6. Teaching English as a skill rather than a 'knowledge' Subject

7. Learning the mother tongue and learning a second language

8. The scop of B Ed English course

Unit II -Teaching Skills

9. Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives

10. Microteaching

11. Observation

12. Macro teaching

13. Aims and procedure for teaching intensive reader

14 Aims and procedure for teaching extensive reader

15. Criteria for selection of a reader

16. Differences between teaching prose and poetry


Unit III - Resources in teaching English

17. Teacher-made aids

18. Mechanical aids

19. Programmed learning

20. Computer assisted language learning

Unit IV - Approaches and methods of teaching english

21. Method, approach, technique and design

22. Methods

23. Approaches

24. Communicative approach

25. Eclectic approach

26. Recent trends in the teaching of english


Unit V - Tools of evaluation

27. The difference between measurement and evaluation

28. Characteristics of a good English test

29. Concept of evaluation

30. Different types of tests

31. Types of achievement tests

32. Objective tests

33. Written tests

34. Construction of a good test

35. Item Analysis

Unit VI - Statistics

36. Frequency distribution

37. Measures of central tendency

38. <easires pf varoano;otu

39. Correlation

40. Graphical representations


Unit VII - Listening comprehension

41. Sub-skills of listening

42. The three phases of listening

43. Listening material

44. Listening activities


Unit VIII - Speaking Skill

45. Techniques in teaching speaking

46. Tasks for developing the speaking skills

47. Improving oral fluencey

48 Dramatization, play reading and group discussion

49. Story-telling, narration and description

50. Communicative games and others

51. Barriers to effective communication

52. Testing speaking

Unit IX - Reading skill

53. Aims of teaching reading

54. Process Involved in reading

55. Types of reading

56. Methods of teaching reading to beginners

57. Reading for perception and comprehension

58. Strategies to develop reading

59. Testing reading

Unit X - Writing skill

60. Mechanics of writing (Mechanical skills

61. Sub Skills in Writing

62. Writing skills

63. Characteristics of good handwriting

64. Developing good Handwriting