09. ENGLISH
DETAIS OF SYLLABUS
UNIT I - CHAUCER TO THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
Poetry:
Chaucer and his age-his works- The Canterbury Tales- The contemporaries of Chaucer.
The Sonnet- Philip Sidney-Tottel’s Miscellany.
The Age of Queen Elizabeth- Spenser- Donne and other metaphysical poets.
Prose:
The rise of English prose-William Caxton - Thomas More-Utopia-Philip Sidney-Francis
Bacon- The Authorised Version of the Bible-Thomas Browne-Hobbes
Drama:
The rise of English drama -Miracles- Moralities- Interludes- Gorboduc- Influence of
Seneca- The University Wits – Revenge Tragedy- Spanish Tragedy- Marlowe-his
contribution- Ben Jonson and the Comedy of Humours.
UNIT II – SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare’s England-stage-influence on Shakespeare-sources-different phases of his
literary career- Shakespearean comedies-tragedies-problem plays-the last plays. Sonnet
of Shakespeare -Shakespearean criticism.
UNIT III - MILTON TO 1800, THE ROMANTIC AND THE
VICTORIAN AGE
Poetry:
Milton and his works - Restoration age and the Augustan Era-Dryden and Pope-
Dr.Johnson- the precursors of Romanticism.
The Romantic Revival -Coleridge and Wordsworth- The Lyrical Ballads-Different phases
of Romanticism-Byron-Shelley - Keats.
The Victorian Era - Conflict between science and religion -Tennyson- In Memoriam and
other poems - Browning - Dramatic monologue - Matthew Arnold - Hardy- Hopkins.
Prose :
Milton’s prose works-John Bunyan - Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy- Jonathan Swift
and his works - Addison and Steele- Dr.Johnson.
Thomas De Quincy -Charles Lamb – Hazlitt - Coleridge- the development of the English
novel-Walter Scott -Jane Austen – Carlyle – John Ruskin - Matthew Arnold -Walter
Pater- Charles Dickens-Thackeray- George Eliot-the Brontes- Meredith- R.L.Stevension-
Hardy and his works.
Drama:
Oscar Wilde and his plays.
UNIT IV - THE MODERN ERA
Poetry:
The poetry of W.B.Yeats- the Symbolist Movement - The First World War -war poets -
T.S Eliot and Ezra Pound- Modernism- The Waste Land -Eliot’s later poems – Auden,
Spender and others.
The Second World War -the Movement - Philip Larkin - Tom Gunn- New poets of the
fifties-Ted Hughes - Seamus Heany- Andrew Motion- Post modernism.
Prose:
The modern novel - D.H Lawrence -James Joyce- Virginia Woolf- George Orwell -E.M
Foster. Graham Greene - Golding -Kingley Amis -Angus Wilson - Iris Murdoch.
Other prose writers: Russell-Huxley-Orwell- Lytton Strachey-
Drama:
The influence of Ibsen- Bernard Shaw and his works - Galsworthy- the revival of poetic
drama-T.S.Eliot- the plays of Synge –Sean O’Casey.
Post war plays -Wesker- Osborne and the angry young men - Theatre of the Absurd –
Beckett – Pinter - Bond
Rise of English in America – Realism in American literature – R W Emerson’s Self –
Reliance, Thorean’s Civil Disobedience – Rise of the novel - Mark Twain, Melville -
Hemingway, Ellison and Toni Morrison – Poets - Emily Dickinson, Walt Witman,
Robert Frost – Confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath – Rise of Black feminism.
Indian Writers – Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Das – Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children
European works – Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina , Ibsen’s Doll’s House
African writing – Wole Soyinka Chinna Achebe - J M Coetzee
Canadian writers - Margaret Lawrence’s Stone Angel
Carribean writers – V S Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas – English as a global
language.
UNIT V - PHONETICS, HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAG AND FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
Aspects of language: phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Family of Languages- Old, Middle and Modern English- characteristics Standard
English-Language variations-loan words-word formation-semantic changes.
Morphemes and words-classification of words- Structural Grammar - T.G.Grammar -
basic concept.
Functional grammar- usages-phrasal verbs-Idioms-Synonyms and antonyms.
UNIT VI - LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM AND TEACHING
OF ENGLISH
Literary theory as a basic discipline-Aristotle- Poetics- Dryden- Matthew Arnold -
T.S.Eliot-I.A.Richards-F.R Leavis-New criticism-structuralism-Deconstruction-
Feminism-Post colonial theory.
Theory and practice of language teaching -Conceptual frame work – bilingualism –
multi-lingualism- Principles of language teaching - aspects of socio-linguistics -
communicative approach to language. Psychological approach to language learning-
Learner factors- age -aptitude-personality.
Methods of language teaching: Grammar translation method - direct method -audio-
visual method-structural method-functional method-class room procedures-Lesson plan-
selection and grading - student participation-group work-Seminars-tutorials and library
work.
38. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE & APTITUDE IN
TEACHING
DETAILS OF SYLLABUS
PART(A) - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1. SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
a. General Science – Physics, Chemistry and Biology up to Std X.
b. Environmental Science
c. Mathematics related to life – Percentage, Average, Data handling, Graphical
representation.
d. Mathematical Reasoning – Number Series etc
e. Arithmetic Calculations.
2. SOCIAL SCIENCE
a. Freedom movement and National leaders
b. National development since independence, Five year plans, Gandhian Concept of
Development.
c. Constitution of India, Fundamental rights and duties, Election commission of India,
Panchayathi Raj System.
d. Structure of the earth, Resources and their classification , Volcano, Earthquakes.
3. INDIAN ART, LITERATURE AND ANCIENT INDIAN
PHILOSOPHY
a. Indian music and dance
b. Vedic age
c. Sanskrit works
d. Indian languages & literature
e. World literature
f. Books and authors
g. Awards
h. Different art forms of Kerala
i. Indian Philosophy
4. CURRENT AFFAIRS
a. Inventions, Year, People
b. Awards, Year , People
c. Film awards
d. Sports
e. Heads of Judiciary
f. Ministers and duties of Central and State ministries.
5. CULTURE AND VALUES
a. Salient features of Indian culture, Traditional and National values of India
b. Salient features of Kerala Culture, Development of Kerala Society, and Impact of
media on Society
c. Changing values, Impact of Western values, how do adolescents view values.
6. COMMUNICATION, MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCE
a. Communication, Nature, Characteristics, types, barriers and effective communication.
b. Concept of management
c. Need and importance of commerce education in modern age.
d. Concept of Business.
7. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
a. ICT : meaning, advantages, disadvantages and uses
b. General abbreviations and terminology
c. Basics of Internet and e-mailing
d. Application of computer in teaching and learning.
PART(B) - APTITUDE IN TEACHING
1. ACADEMIC APTITUDE
a. Factors affecting learning
b. Learning: Meaning, definition, Characteristics and basic requirements
c. Learning to learn
d. Knowledge management
2. ADMINISTRATIVE APTITUDE
a. Qualities of a teacher
b. Professionalism of a teacher
c. Decision making power
d. Planning and Administration
e. Educational management, Organization, Supervision, Characteristics of effective
management.
3. PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
a. Psychology: Meaning, Scope, application in education
b. Concept of learning, Learning theories and their application
c. Individual differences
d. Intellectual development – theories
e. Guidance and Counselling
f. Development during adolescents, Problems of adolescents.
4. SOCIOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION
a. Relationship between Philosophy and Education. Major Philosophical Systems,
Contributions to education by Great Thinkers.
b. Relationship between Education and Society, Education and Social change.
c. Education in Pre-independent India, Development of modern education, Reports of
Education Commissions, Education in Post-independent India – Reports and Policies
after Independence, Current problems of education in India and attempts made to
solve them. SSA and Other programmes.
d. Educational development in Kerala, Education under Panchayathi Raj.
5. INNOVATION,TECHNOLOGY,RESEARCH & EVALUATION
a. Models of Teaching.
b. Co-operative learning
c. Reflective Practices
d. Audio-Visual aids
e. Micro teaching
f. Research : Meaning, Characteristics and types
g. Action Research
h. Continuous, Comprehensive evaluation
i. Grading.
6. VALUE BASED EDUCATION
a. Steps in the building up of a value system
b. Role of value based education in school level
c. Universal, traditional and constitutional values
7. APTITUDE IN TEACHING
a. Nature, Objectives, Characteristics, basic requirements of teaching
b. Factors affecting teaching.
c. Characteristics of learners
d. Methods of teaching
e. Teaching aids
f. Evaluation Systems.