Applications Open now for January 2025 Batch | Applications Close: January 02, 2025 | Exam: February 23, 2025

Applications Open now for January 2025 Batch | Applications Close: January 02, 2025 | Exam: February 23, 2025

Foundational Level 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 Rajesh Kumar , Karthika Sathyanathan

Course ID: BSHS1002

Course Credits: 4

Course Type: Foundational

Pre-requisites: BSHS1001 -  English I

What you’ll learnVIEW COURSE VIDEOS

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

12 weeks of coursework, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.

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)
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Reference Documents / Books

Addition Learning Support for English - 2 (Basic English)

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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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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