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BSHS1002 - English II
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Course Code | BSHS1002 |
| Level | Foundational Level Course |
| Credits | 4 |
| Type | Foundational |
| Pre-requisites | BSHS1001 - English I |
| Videos | YouTube Playlist |
📖 Description
Focus on achieving greater degree of fluency in functional and conversational English to understand subtle and detailed meaning in conversations and texts through short literary pieces and contextualized content.
🗓️ Weekly Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Patterns in Sentences |
| Week 2 | Patterns in Sentences (Continued) |
| Week 3 | Patterns in Sentences (Continued) |
| Week 4 | Listening Skills |
| Week 5 | Listening Skills (Continued) |
| Week 6 | Speaking Skills |
| Week 7 | Speaking Skills (Continued) |
| Week 8 | Reading Skills |
| Week 9 | Writing Skills |
| Week 10 | Writing Skills (Continued) |
| Week 11 | Social Skills |
| Week 12 | Social Skills (Continued) |
📎 Reference Documents
📚 Books & Resources
Reference Documents / Books
Addition Learning Support for English - 2 (Basic English) DOWNLOAD
📝 About the Instructors
Rajesh Kumar
Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
IIT Madras
Rajesh Kumar is professor of linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining IIT Madras, he taught at IIT Kanpur, and IIT Patna in India and at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA. He has been a visiting faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai in India. His book on Syntax of Negation and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items was published by Routledge in their prestigious series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics in 2006. He is associate editor of the journal Language and Language Teaching. He has been part of the language teaching program at all the institutions he has been affiliated with. The broad goal of his research is to uncover regularities underlying both the form (what language is) and sociolinguistic functions (what language does) of natural languages.
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Other courses by the same instructor:
BSHS1001 -
English I
Karthika Sathyanathan
Alumna,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
IIT Madras
Karthika has an MA in English Studies from IIT Madras. She has worked as a Language & Education Consultant with multiple government departments and non-government organisations. Currently she is working as project officer with IIT Madras. Her areas of interest include ELT, multilingualism, multiculturalism and second language learning.
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Other courses by the same instructor:
BSHS1001 -
English I