Courses

Advanced English Grammar and its Pedagogy (ENG 513)

This is an advanced English grammar course. The course deals with both theory and practice. There are three units in this course. The first unit begins with the basic concepts of grammar. The second unit deals with various elements of English grammar. Similarly, the third unit offers practical activities for teaching grammar in the English language teaching (ELT) classroom. The objectives of this course are:

  • a) to acquaint the students with the basic notions and concepts of grammar.
  • b) to make the students practice various elements of the English grammar.
  • c) to provide the students with the skills of teaching the English grammar.

Sociolinguistics in EFL Classroom (ENG 514)

This course has been designed to acquaint the students with the knowledge about the role of sociolinguistics in the EFL classrooms. Basically, it deals with the sociolinguistic theories, and issues. It includes four units. The first unit deals with general issues of sociolinguistics, including scopes and dimensions. The second unit discusses EFL classrooms in terms of multilingual context. This unit includes a project work for the students which emphasizes their research skills. The third unit is concerned with language variation, and includes a project related to the variation. Finally, unit four discusses different sociolinguistic considerations that need to be made within EFL classrooms. The objectives of the course are to help students:

  • a) Explain sociolinguistic issues such as scopes, dimensions, and features.
  • b) Overview EFL classroom in the multilingual contexts, concerning with the aspects such as diglossia, code switching, language shift, language varieties, planning, mother tongue education, and bilingual education .
  • c) Analyze different sociolinguistic considerations to be made in EFL classroom, including sociolinguistics and education, communicative competence, critical discourse analysis, and speech functions.

Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Pedagogies (ENG 532)

This course is designed to provide students with a critical understanding of the discourse analysis and critical pedagogy. The course consists of two parts. The first part deals with the theoretical discussions on critical discourse analysis and the second part presents the readings related to critical pedagogy. The objectives of the course are as follows.

  • a) to provide students the concepts of critical discourse analysis
  • b) to offer students the critical paradigm of critical discourse analysis
  • c) to discuss the application of CDA in EFL classroom
  • d) to provide them the theories of critical discourse analysis
  • e) to define and distinguish different approaches of CDA
  • f) to make critical reading of different discourse genre
  • g) to acquaint with the concepts and theories of critical pedagogy
  • h) to enable them to critically examine the ELT pedagogy in Nepal