A Bridge Course in Writing Skills in English
The present course aims to improve the writing skills of the learner and can also act as a bridge course for learners who lack behind in this skill. Teaching materials have been produced for the learner who is expected to have studied English for 5-6 years, linguistically, he has been exposed to about 250 structures, and has a vocabulary of about 2500 words, the main part of which is passive.
What you’ll learn
- The present course aims to improve the writing skills of the learner, teach structurally related elements and lead them from correctness to coherence..
- Objectives were decided upon after conducting a diagnostic test, evaluating, determining the goals, keeping in view the learner and the instructional pattern..
- The proficiency level in the area of ‘Tenses’ and ‘Coherence’ improves. There is focus on grammar, pattern practice and drill. There are five distinct stages..
- The skill of writing is developed. The learner is in a position to produce grammatically correct sentences and coherent passages. 30 hours of teaching required.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 1 lecture • 1min.
- STAGE – I –> 6 lectures • 20min.
- STAGE -II –> 16 lectures • 2hr 13min.
- STAGE -III –> 15 lectures • 1hr.
- STAGE IV –> 4 lectures • 22min.
- STAGE V –> 2 lectures • 7min.
Requirements
The present course aims to improve the writing skills of the learner and can also act as a bridge course for learners who lack behind in this skill. Teaching materials have been produced for the learner who is expected to have studied English for 5-6 years, linguistically, he has been exposed to about 250 structures, and has a vocabulary of about 2500 words, the main part of which is passive.
The objective of the present course is to teach the learner structurally related elements for the coding of meaning and grammatical units and grammatical operations.
This course is problem-based, for it tries to find out the difficulties of learners in the skills of writing. This is also an activity-based course as a lot of activities are used in it. This course is also of the ‘Spiral’ from, new items are recurrently presented in different contexts and with different meanings. Activities focus on grammatical accuracy. All the 12 tense types are used, ‘linkers’ most frequent in English written discourses are taught.
The proficiency levels in the areas of ‘Tense’ and ‘Coherence’, the two most crucial areas in the language learning are improved after completing this course, weak as well as bright learners improve.