Monday 20 September 2021

Kerala PSC HSA English Examination Syllabus 2021

 PART A

Module     I : Renaissance and freedom movement Module 

                 II: General Knowledge and current affairs Module 

                III: Methodology of teaching the subject 

♦ History/conceptual development. Need and Significance, Meaning Nature and Scope of the Subject. 

♦ Correlation with other subjects and life situations. 

♦ Aims, Objectives, and Values of Teaching - Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - Old and revised 

♦ Pedagogic analysis- Need, Significance and Principles. 

♦ Planning of instruction at Secondary level- Need and importance. Psychological bases of Teaching the subject - Implications of Piaget, Bruner, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel and Gardener - Individual difference, Motivation, Maxims of teaching. 

♦ Methods and Strategies of teaching the subject- Models of Teaching, Techniques of individualising instruction. 

♦ Curriculum - Definition, Principles, Modern trends and organizational approaches, Curriculum reforms - NCF/KCF. 

♦ Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library, Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids - Community based resources - e-resources - Text book, Work book and Hand book. 

♦ Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose, Types, Principles, Modern techniques - CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques - Qualities of a good test - Types of test items- Evaluation of projects, Seminars and Assignments - Achievement test, Diagnostic test – Construction, Characteristics, interpretation and remediation. 

♦ Teacher - Qualities and Competencies - different roles - Personal Qualities - Essential teaching skills - Microteaching - Action research. 


PART B

Module 1. Poetry 

Shakespeare              Sonnet 121 

Donne                       A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 

Milton                       On His Blindness 

Gray                          Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard 

Wordsworth              Tintern Abbey 

Shelley                     To A Skylark 

Keats                        Ode On A Grecian Urn 

Tennyson                  Ulysses 

Browning                 My Last Duchess 

Arnold                      Dover Beach 

W.B.Yeats                A Prayer For My Daughter 

Sylvia Plath             Daddy 

Tagore                     Where The Mind Is Without Fear 

Nissim Ezekiel        Night Of The Scorpion 

Kamala Das             An Introduction 

A.K.Ramanujan       Obituary 

Robert Frost             Home Burial 

Emily Dickinson      Because I Could Not Stop For Death 

Wole Soyinka           A Telephone Conversation 

Meena Alexander     House Of A Thousand Doors 

Margaret Atwood     This Is A Photograph Of Me 

David Diop               Africa 

Jack Davis                Aboriginal Australia 


Module 2. Drama

Shakespeare             Macbeth 

Sheridan                   School For Scandal 

Oscar Wilde              The Importance Of Being Ernest 

Ibsen                         A Doll's House 

Shaw                         Pygmalion 

J.M.Synge                 Riders To The Sea 

Samuel Beckett         Waiting For Godot 

Arthur Miller             Death Of A Salesman 

Tennessee Williams   The Glass Menagerie 

Girish Karnad            Nagamandala 

 

Module 3: Prose and Fiction

Francis Bacon               Of Studies 

Steele                            The Trumpet Club 

A.G. Gardiner               On The Rule Of The Road 

E.M. Forster                 On Tolerance 

Bertrand Russel            Functions Of A Teacher 

Dr.Radhakrishnan         Humanities vs Science 

Emily Bronte                Wuthering Heights 

George Orwell              Animal Farm 

Hemingway                  The Old Man And The Sea 

Shashi Deshpande        Roots and Shadows 

Arundati Roy               The God Of Small Things 

Toni Morrison              The Bluest Eye 


Module 4: .Literary Criticism/ Terms

1.Rasa 

2.Dhwani 

3.Aristotle: Poetics 

4.Wordsworth: Preface To Lyrical Ballads 

5.Coleridege: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14 

6.Arnold: Study of Poetry 

7.Eliot:Tradition And The Individual Talent 

8.Saussure: Nature Of The Linguistic Sign 

                    Terms and Movements ( Based on the latest edition of M.H.Abrams-A Glossary Of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post Colonialism, Modernism and Post Modernism 


Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language

                    1.Phonology 

                    2. Morphology 

                    3.Syntax                                                                                                             

                    4.Semantics 

                    5.Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance 

                    6.Organs of Speech 

                    7.Classification Of Speech Sounds 

                    8.Stress, Rhythm, Intonation 

                    9.Transcription 

                    10.Indo-European Family of languages 

                    11.Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian 

                    12.Englishes-American, Australian, Indian, and African 

                    

 Module 6: Modern English Usage

                    1.Sentence Correction 

                    2.Vocabulary 

                    3.Synonyms and Antonyms 

                    4.Give one word 

                    5.Commonly confused words 

                    6.Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc. 

                    7.Appropriate word order 

                    8.Appropriate sentence order 

                    9.Idioms 

                    10.Passage for comprehension 


Module 7: Basic Grammar

                    1.Article 

                    2.Prepositions 

                    3.Clauses 

                    4.Tenses 

                    5.Phrasal Verbs 

                    6.Conjunctions 

                    7.Reported Speech 

                    8.Voice 

                    9.Question Tag 

                    10.Transformation of sentences 

            

 Module 8: Teaching of English

                    1.Schools-Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism 

                    2.Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing 

                    3.Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen 

                    4.Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingual; Direct Method;                                     Structural-OralSituational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilingual Method;                                 Humanistic Approaches 

                    5.Use of AV aids and ICT 

                    6.Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar 

                    7.Testing and Evaluation 

                    8.Learner Types 

                    9.Teaching learners with disability 

                    10.NCF, KCF on teaching of English 

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