Foundation

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.

Taught by Prof. Rajesh Kumar

Code BSHS1102

Credits 4 Credits

Type Course

Prerequisites

BSHS1101

Core Competencies

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

12-Week Roadmap

Course Structure & Syllabus

For details of standard term assessment timelines and exam structures, visit our Academics page.

WEEK 1

Patterns in Sentences

WEEK 2

Patterns in Sentences (Continued)

WEEK 3

Patterns in Sentences (Continued)

WEEK 4

Listening Skills

Faculty & Experts

About the Instructors

Prof. Rajesh Kumar

Professor , Department of Humanities and Social Sciences , IIT Madras

Faculty Webpage

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.

Other Courses by Instructor:

BSHS1101 • English I

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