COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course aims at enhancing students’ effective communication in English with regard to grammar, speech, reading and writing. Students are taken through the major and minor word classes in English and their functions as well as concord. With regards to writing, emphasis is placed on good paragraph development. The course helps students to acquire good narrative and summary skills; therefore a prescribed novel is read per semester and students summarize sections of the prescribed novel and are able to discuss characters and themes.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, students shall be able to:
- Organize their ideas coherently
and clearly in paragraphs.
- Identify and use the major and
minor word classes in English.
- Summarize a given passage by
extracting the relevant information from it.
- Develop the requisite skills to
communicate effectively
- Analyze their grammatical
expression to respond appropriately to questions
COURSE CONTENT
- Introduction to Communication
Skills
- Speaking and Reading Skills
- Word Classes
- Concord
- Writing Skills
COMPULSORY READING MATERIALS
- Akmajian, A. (2001). Linguistics:
- An introduction to language and communication. New Delhi:
- Prentice –Hall of India Private Limited.
OPTIONAL READING MATERIALS
- Dixson, R. J. (2003). Complete course in English. New
Delhi: Prentice–Hall of India
- Dolphine, F. A. (1989). A
course in oral English. Accra: Sedco Publishing Limited.
- Quirk, R. &Greenbaum, S. (1973). A university grammar of English. London:
Longman