Course Contents

Department of Education (Planning and Development) Course Title: Teaching of English B.Ed. (Hons) Secondary Semester VI Course Code: Maj/B.Eds-Pd-Eng-311 Credit Hours: 3 Course Description This course aimed to develop pedagogical skills of the prospective teachers for teaching of English. It includes description of different teaching strategies for effective English teaching. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course students will be able to: • understand the four language skills-listening, speaking, reading and writing. • identify and prepare activities for developing four skills. • explain modern methods and approaches in teaching of English. • prepare comprehensive lesson plans of prose, poetry, vocabulary and grammar. Course outline Unit 1 Four Skills of Language Learning 1.1 Developing Listening Skills 1.2 Why should Listening be developed? 1.3 Listening the process 1.4 Sample Listening Activities 1.5 Ideas for Improving Listening 1.6 Speaking Skills 1.7 Why teach Speaking? 1.8 Modeling Speech 1.9 Classroom Techniques 1.10 Ideas for Improving Speaking 1.11 Reading Skills 1.12 Meaning and Importance of Reading 1.13 Reading Techniques 1.14 Reading defects 1.15 Ideas for Improving Reading 1.16 Writing Skills 1.17 Developing Writing Skills 1.18 Writing Activities 1.19 Writing Descriptions 1.20 Summarizing and abstracting 1.21 Ideas for Improving Writing Unit 2 Teaching of English 2.1 Teaching of Prose 2.2 Teaching of Poems 2.3 Teaching of Vocabulary 2.4 Teaching of Pronunciation 2.5 Teaching of Grammar Unit 3 Methods of Teaching English 3.1 Method, Approach and Design 3.2 Grammar Translation Method 3.3 The Direct Method 3.4 Structural Situation Method 3.5 Communicative Method 3.6 The Bilingual Method Unit 4 Lesson Planning 4.1 Need and Importance of Lesson plan 4.2 Points to ponder while planning a lesson 4.3 A sample of a format for Lesson planning 4.4 Qualities of teaching and Lesson 4.5 Planning a poetry and prose Lesson 4.6 Planning a paragraph, a story and an essay 4.7 Planning a Grammar Lesson Unit 5 Assessment 5.1 Types of test Elicitation Techniques 5.2 Designing a Test 5.3 Test Administration Evaluation Criteria Students will be evaluated on the basis of following criteria. 1 Assignment 5 2 Participation 5 3 Attendance 5 4 T1 (Unit 1,2) 10 5 T2 (Unit 3,4) 10 6 Final paper 65 Recommended Books Aslam, M. (2009). Teaching of English: A Practical Course for B.Ed. Students (2nded.). New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. Ali, M. (1996). Instructional Techniques: A Manual for Induction to teaching. Karachi: Kifayat Academy. Borich, G. D. (2000). Effective Teaching Methods (3rded.). Ohio: Prentice Hall. Baker, J., & Westrup, H. (2003). The English Language Teacher’s Handbook. New York:

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to: • understand the four language skills-listening, speaking, reading and writing. • identify and prepare activities for developing four skills. • explain modern methods and approaches in teaching of English. • prepare comprehensive lesson plans of prose, poetry, vocabulary and grammar.