Course

English II

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.

by Prof. Rajesh Kumar

Course ID: BSHS1102

Course Credits: 4

Course Type: Foundation

Pre-requisites: BSHS1101

What you'll learn

Integrating the basic skills of language into developing advanced skills of language proficiency to help compose clear and detailed writing on a range of subjects;

Learning advanced level of vocabulary and socio-linguistic/ socio-pragmatic competence for advance reading and writing;

Building nuanced structure for grammatical accuracy for fluency and creating confidence and appropriateness for expressing view-points clearly;

Developing elementary foundations for comprehending and conveying underlying meaning in spoken discourse

Course structure & Assessments

4 credit course, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details, visit Academics.

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)

About the Instructors

Prof. 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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