English Literature, Elective 1, Paper 1B, ELT, MA 2, Mumbai University

Semester III  
Course: Elective I 
Course Title: English Language Teaching Paper I- B

Course Title: English Language Teaching 
Preamble: The status of English as the global language has been underlined in recent past with its use in varied activities with varied strategic modes. At present teaching of English has gained vital importance all over the globe. For this purpose, the aspirant teachers of English need to be made aware of the theoretical foundation to teach English effectively. This foundation can further arouse interest in them to understand the relevance of the prescribed course content and to adopt the appropriate teaching strategies, teaching material and reliable evaluation models. With this view, the paper entitled “English Language Teaching” is being introduced under the elective courses.  

Objectives:  
1.To acquaint students with the theoretical foundation of teaching of English language  
2.To develop amongst them the critical judgement regarding known methods of teaching English  
3.To enable students to adopt appropriate methods of teaching English  
4.To motivate students to think of innovative practices in teaching of English  
5.To enable students to use reliable evaluation modes  
6.To cultivate among students liking and taste for teaching of English  

Unit 1: Relevance, History and Development 
History and development of English language teaching in India  
Theories of language learning- Behaviourism, Innateness Hypothesis and Language  
Acquisition Device (LAD), Theory of Social Interaction  
First language (L1) acquisition and Second language (L2) acquisition/learning,  
Competence and performance, language proficiency: general language proficiency and Specific language proficiency  

Unit 2: Methods and Techniques of Teaching Methods: 
The Grammar-translation/classical method, the direct method, the audio-lingual method, the structural approach, the total physical response method and the communicative method  
Techniques: use of ICT, language laboratory, language through literature, innovative practices 
Teaching of four skills- Listening-Speaking-Reading- Writing (LSRW)
Teaching of vocabulary and grammar, Micro-teaching and lesson planning

Unit 3: Syllabus Designing 
1)Curriculum and Syllabus, factors in syllabus designing, types of syllabus e.g. structural, situational, notional-functional, communicative.  
2) English for General Purposes (EGP) course, English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course  
3) Error analysis and remedial English courses  

Unit 4: Testing and Evaluation 
Evaluation, assessment and test  
Criteria for good test: Validity, Reliability and Practicality  
Types of tests: Proficiency, Achievement, Diagnostic  
Test formats: open-ended, cloze, multiple choice, transformation etc.  
Washback effect in language testing 

References:  
1.Agnihotri, R. K. &A. L. Khanna. Second Language Acquisition: Socio-cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India. New Delhi: Sage, 1994. 
2.Allen, H. B. & R. N. Campbell. Readings in Teaching English as a Second Language. McCaw, 1994. 
3.Aslam, Mohammad. Trends in English Language Teaching in India. New Delhi: Prakash Book  
4.Bachman, Lyle F. Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing. OUP,1990.  
5.Brumfit, C. J. & R. A. Carter. Literature and Language Teaching. 1985.  
6.Carter,R. &D. Nunan. The Canbridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. CUP,2001  
7.Celce-Murcia, Marianne, and Sharon Hilles. Techniques and resources in teaching grammar. Oxford University Press, USA, 1988.  
8.Cheng, Liying, and Yoshinori Watanabe, eds. Washback in language testing: Research contexts and methods. Routledge, 2004.  
9.Ellis, R. Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Learning in the Classroom. Basil Blackwell,1990.  
10.Huchingson, Tom & Alan Waters. English for Specific Purpose: A Learner Centred Approach.CUP, 1987.  
11.Ingram, D. First Language Acquisition. Cambridge UP,1989.  
12.Kaur, Rajpal, ed. Teaching English: New Trends and Innovations. New Delhi: Deep, 2006.  
13.Khan, Masood Ali. Modern Approach to Teaching English. Jaipur: Sublime  
14.Krashen, S. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language teaching. Oxford: Pergamum.1982.  
15.Krishnaswamy, Natesan, and Archana S. Burde. The politics of Indians' English: Linguistic colonialism and the expanding English empire. Oxford University Press, USA, 1998.  
16.Kudchedkar, S. Readings in English Language Teaching in India. Orient Blackswan, 2002.  
17.Maley, Alan, and Alan Duff. Drama techniques: A resource book of communication activities for language teachers. Ernst KlettSprachen, 2006.  
18.Nation, I. S. P. & John Macalister. Language curriculum design. New York: Routledge. 2010.  
19.Nation, Paul & Jonathan Newton. Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking. New York:  
20.Nation, Paul. Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing. New York: Routledge, 2009. 
21.Nunan, D. Syllabus Design. Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.  
22.Prabhu, N.S. Second Language Pedagogy. OUP, 1897. 
23.Richards, Jack C. An Introduction to Error Analysis. Longman,1972. 
24.Richards, Jack. Communicative Language Teaching Today. Cambridge: CUP. 2005.  
25.Richards, Jack C., and Richards Schmidt. "Longman dictionary of applied linguistics andlanguage teaching."Harlow, UK: Longman (2002).  
26.Stern, H. H. Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching. OUP,2002.  
27.Tickoo, M. L. Teaching and learning English. New Delhi, Orient Longman Pvt. Limited, 2003  
28.Weir, C. J. Understanding and Developing Language Tests. 1993.  
29.Widdowson, H.G. Teaching Language as Communication. OUP,1978.  
30.Yalden, Janice. Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching. CUP, 1987.  

Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 marks):  
Sr. No. Particulars Marks 
1. (a) One written assignment/research paper on the topics such as analysis of actual syllabus, comparative analysis of tests, error analysis -
10 Marks
(b) Micro-teaching session of about 10 minutes (students will be evaluated on the basis of content, clarity of expression and effective use of teaching tools and techniques)  10 Marks  
Total=20 Marks  

2. One Internal Test based on the syllabus (one out of three questions) 20 Marks  

Semester End Examination (60 Marks):  
Semester End Examination Duration: 2 Hours 60 Marks  
Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 4: Essay on Unit 4 (one out of two) : 15Marks 

1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System 
i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective I 
ii) Course Code : PAENG301  
iii) Course Title : English Language Teaching  
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus  
v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus  
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester: 06  
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15  
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04 

2. Scheme of Examination:4 Questions of 15 marks each  
3. Special notes, if any: No  
4. Eligibility, if any: No  
5. Fee Structure: As per University Structure  



 

English Literature, Elective 1, Paper 1A, Poetry from Chaucer to the Present

Course: Elective I  
Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to the Present Paper I- A

Course Title: Poetry from Chaucer to the Present  

Preamble: 
 The paper, “Poetry from Chaucer to the Present” seeks to familiarize the students with the development of poetry over a vast period from Chaucer to the present. Therefore, the paper aims at studying certain poetic genres in relation to the chief tendencies and movements of the age. This is an attempt to acquaint the students with poetic forms, development of poetry and representative poets through the ages in the wider context of socio-cultural background of the time. The selected texts are to be studied for the poetic form, the poet's contribution to the age and their place/relation to the age/movement they represent. Being a paper of literature, more precisely of poetry, it aims at developing sensitivity of the learners towards life and all that surrounds it. It seeks to foster qualities such as understanding and appreciation of other cultures and ways of life. This enhanced ability of openness of mind shall help them to see beauty in life and the world around and to form a philosophy of their own.  

Objectives: 
1.To familiarize the students with the major representative poets of every age and movements therein.  
2.To help them study different genres of poetry in the context of socio-cultural background of the age

Unit 1: Chaucer to the Metaphysical Poetry  

a) Geoffrey Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales 
b) Edmund Spenser: “Prothalamion” 
c) John Donne: “The Canonization” 
d) Andrew Marvell: “A Dialogue between The Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure”  

Unit 2: Milton to the Age of Transition  
a)John Milton: Paradise Lost, Book II 
b)Alexander Pope: Essay on Man (Epistle I )
c)Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in Country Churchyard” Unit 

3: Romantic Revival to Pre- Raphaelite Poets 
 a)William Wordsworth: “Resolution and Independence”  
P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”  

b)Alfred Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”  
Robert Browning: “Andrea Del Sarto

c)D.G.Rosetti: “The Blessed Damozel”  
Swinburne : “The Forsaken Garden”  

Unit 4: Modernism and After  

a)T. S. Eliot :“ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”  
W. B. Yeats :“ A Prayer for My Daughter” 

b)Siegfried Sasoon :“The Child at the Window”  
W. H. Auden :“1st September 1939”  

c)Dylan Thomas :“ Fern Hill”  
Philip Larkin :“The Whitsun Weddings”  
Craig Raine :“A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”  

References:  
1.Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Harcourt College Publishers, Singapore.  
2.Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. OUP. 1971  
3.Allott, Kenneth. The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse. Penguin books, England  
4.Anderson J.J. (Ed): The Canterbury Tales: A selection of Critical Essays, Macmillan,Casebook Series,Tiptree (Essex),1974. 
5.Auden, W.H. : Introduction- A selection from the Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, New York, 1944  
6.Beer, John: Wordsworth and his Human Heart, Macmillan Press Ltd., Lonndon,1978  
7.Bennett, John. Five Metaphysical Poets. Cambridge University Press,U.K.  
8.Bernard Richard, English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890, Longman  
9.Bloom, Harold. (Ed.) Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism. W.W. Norton & Co. 1970  
10.Bloom,Harold. Romantic Poetry And Prose. Oxford University Press  
11. Bloom,Harold, Trilling,Lionel Victorian Prose And Poetry. Oxford University Press  
12.Bowden Muriel: A Reader’s Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer, Syracuse University Press,1964  
13.Bowra, Maurice. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, London  
14. Brettjames,Norman G. Introducing Chaucer. George G Harrap And Co Ltd  
15.Brooks, Cleanth. Modern Poetry and the Tradition. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.  
16.Bush, Douglas: Introduction, Tennyson: selected Poetry, New York, 1951  
17.Butt, John. The Augustan Age. London 1950  
18.Butt, John. Wordsworth- Selected Poetry and Prose, OUP, 1964  
19.Colins, A.S. English Literature of the Twentieth Century. University Tutorial Press Ltd, London  
20.Coulton,G G. Chaucer and His England. Methuen Drama Great Britain  
21.Cox, C.B. & Dyson, A.E. (ed.) The Twentieth Century Mind, Vol. 1-3. OUP, London, 1972  
22.Daiches, David. Present Age. The Cresset Press, London 
23.Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1-4. Allied Publishers ltd., New Delhi.   
24.Drew, Elizabeth. T.S. Eliot: The Design of His Poetry. Eyre &Spottiswoode Publishers Ltd., London  
25.Durrant Geoffrey: William Wordsworth, Cambridge University Press, London,1969  
26.Ellman, Richard.Yeats- The man and the Masks. Faber & Faber Ltd., London  
27.Elsford E.: Four Hymns and Epithalamion, Oxford, 1967  
28.Faulkner, Peter. Modernism. (The Critical Idiom Series). Methuen & Co. Ltd. London  
29.Ford, Boris.(Ed.) The Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. 1-8, Penguin Books, England. 
30.Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Penguin Books, England.  
31.Gardner, Helen, The Art of T.S. Eliot. Faber & Faber Ltd., London  
32.Gardner, Helen (Ed.). The Metaphysical Poets, Penguin Books, England  
33.Grierson & Smith. Critical History of English Poetry. Chatto&Windus, London  
34. Grierson Herbert, The Poems of John Donne- Introduction and Commentary, The Macmillan Press Ltd, London,1973 35.Hamer,EnidMetres of English Poetry. Methuen Drama Great Britain  
36.Hayward, John (Ed.).ThePenguin Book of English Verse. Penguin books, England  
37.Hudson, W.H.: Gray and His poetry, London, George G. Harrp& Co.,1927  
38.Hudson, W.H. Introduction to the Study of English Literature. George G. Harrap& Co. Ltd. London.  
39.Hughes Richard E. 'The Progress of the Soul: The Interior Career of John Donne' , The Broadley Head, London,1969  
40.Keast, W.R. Seventeenth Century English Poetry. OUP, London, 1962  
41. Killham,John. Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson. Routledge Chapman And Hall, London,1960.  
42.Legouis, Emile &Cazamian, Louis. A History of English Literature. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London  
43.Lovelock Julian(ed.), Donne: Songs and Sonnets, A Casebook, The Macmillan Press Ltd, London,1973  
44.Mahoney, John (Ed.) The English Romantics: Major Poetry & Critical Theory. D.C. Health & Co. 1978  
45.Mipshi, Masoa. The Divided Self: A Perspective on the Literature of the Victorians. New York University Press. 
46.Mukherji S.B. : The Poetry of Wordsworth,Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi,1976
47.Palgrave, F.T.: Golden Treasury of the Best Songs & Lyrical Poems in English Language, London, Oxford University Press, 1956 48.Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. Longman, London.  
49.Perkins David, History of Modern Poetry, (Vol I & II). Harvard University Press, 1987  
50. Prasad,B. Background to the Study of English Litterature Macmillan And Co.  
51.Preminger, Alex, Warnke, Frank J. & Hardison (Jr.), O.B. Princeton Encyclopaedia of Poetry and Poetics. The Macmillan Press Ltd, London  
52.Rees, R.J. English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers. Macmillan Education Ltd. London  
53.Selincourt Ernest De(ed.): Introduction to the Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Oxford, 1929  
54.Starr, Herbert W. : Twentieth century Interpretation of Gray’s Elegy, Englewood Cliffs, New jersey, Prentice hall, Inc.,  
55.Tedlock E.W. (ed.): Dylan Thomas: The Legend and the Poet, Heinemann, 1960 
56.Tindall W.Y.: A Reader’s Guide to Dylan Thomas, Syracuse University Press,1962  
57.Upham,A.H. Typical Forms of English Literature. Oxford University Press  
58.Ward, A.C. Twentieth Century Literature. ELBS & Methuen &Co. Ltd. London  
59.White Helen C.: The Metaphysical Poets,Collier Macmillan Ltd.,1962  
60.Williamson, George. A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot. Thames & Hudson, London. 
61.Willey, Basil, Nineteenth Century Studies, Chatto and Windus, 1964  
62.Willey, Basil. The Seventeenth Century Background. Penguin Books, England.  

1. Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit System  
i) Name of the Program : M.A. English (Regular) Part II, Semester III, Elective I
ii) Course Code : PAENG301  
iii) Course Title : Poetry from Chaucer to the Present 
iv) Semester wise Course Contents : Enclosed the copy of syllabus  
v) References and Additional References : Enclosed in the Syllabus  
vi) Credit Structure : No. of Credits per Semester - 06  
vii) No. of lectures per Unit : 15 
viii) No. of lectures per week : 04  

2. Scheme of Examination: 4 Questions of 15 marks each 
3. Special notes, if any: No 4. 
Eligibility, if any: No 5. Fee Structure: As per University Structure


Evaluation Pattern:

Internal Assessment (40 Marks): 
Sr. No. Particulars Marks  
1. One written assignment/research paper on the text suggested by the teacher for Internal Assessment- 10 Marks
Presentation on the written assignment/research paper. - 05 Marks
Viva voce based on the written assignment/research paper -05 marks  
Total = 20 Marks  

2. One Internal Test based on the syllabus (one out of three questions) 20 Marks  

Semester End Examination (60 Marks):  
Semester End Examination Duration: 2 Hours 60 Marks  

Question 1: Essay on Unit 1 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 2: Essay on Unit 2 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 3: Essay on Unit 3 (one out of two) : 15 Marks  
Question 4: Essay on Unit 4 (one out of two) : 15Marks 

Note: Students’ answers must reveal sufficient knowledge of the historical, socio-cultural, and literary (movement, school of thought, ism, genre etc.) background of the age, prescribed text as well as of the author.