Code No. B.Ed.

-CC3-103-E

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BRILLIANT’S

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Language Across the
Curriculum (Part-1)
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Bachelor of Education
(B.Ed.)

Semester-1st (CC-3)

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NEW SYLLABUS

Language Across the Curriculum (Part-1)

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UNIT 1
Engaging with Narrative and
Descriptive Accounts

 The selected texts could include stories or chapters from fiction, dra-
matic incidents, vivid descriptive accounts, or even well-produced
comic strip stories.
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Suggested Activities
 Reading for comprehending and visualizing the account (individual
plus group reading and discussion/explanation)

 Re-telling the account – in one’s own words/from different points of

view (taking turns in a smaller group)

 Narrating/describing a related account from one’s life experience (in

front of a smaller group)

 Discussion of characters and situations – sharing interpretations and

points of view (in a smaller group)

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 Writing based on the text, e.g. summary of a scene, extrapolation of
story, converting a situation into a dialogue, etc. (individual task).

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UNIT 2
Engaging with Popular Subject-Based
Expository Writing

 The selected texts could include articles, biographical writing, or ex-

tracts from popular non-fiction writing, with themes that are drawn
from the subject areas of the student teachers (various sciences,
mathematics, history, geography, literature/language pieces) For this
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Unit, the student-teachers should work in groups divided according to
their subjects, within which different texts could be read by different
pairs of student-teachers.

Suggested Activities
 Reading to extract overall meaning, information, subject knowledge
(guided reading in pairs and simple note making)

 Identifying major concepts and ideas involved and making notes on

these in some schematic form – flow diagram, tree diagram, mind
map, etc. (guided working in pairs)

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 Explaining the gist of the text/topic to others (in the larger subject
group)

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 Attending the writing style, subject-specific vocabulary and ‘perspec-
tive’ or ‘reference frame’ in which different topics are presented—this
will vary across subjects and texts, and requires some interpretative
skills for ‘placing’ the context of each text (group discussion and shar-
ing)

 Writing a review or a summary of the text, with comments and opin-

ions (individual task)
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UNIT 3

Engaging with Journalistic Writing

 The selected texts would include newspaper or magazine articles on

topics of contemporary interest. Student-teachers can be grouped
randomly for this Unit.

Suggested Activities
 Using reading strategies, such as scanning, skimming and reading for
extracting information – as appropriate for initial reading of articles
(guided individual task)

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 Analysis of structure of the article, identifying sub-headings, key words,
sequencing of ideas, use of concrete details, illustrations and/or sta-
tistical representations, etc. (guided working in pairs)

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 Critical reading for attending ‘framing’ of the article, point(s) of view
presented, possible biases or slants (small group discussion)

 Researching and writing articles on topics of local interest (working to

produce a local interest magazine).
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B.Ed.
Section A:

(5 × 11) = 55 100–150

Section B:

(2 × 10) = 20

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CONTENTS
Introductory Chapter: Language Across
the Curriculum

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Q.1. Prove the relevance of 'curriculum beyond the
language' topic in core curriculum of B.Ed. 1st
Semester.

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Q.2. Give an introduction to language and explain its

consecutive development.
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Q.3. Explore the psychological tendency of language
learning and mention language development parts.

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Q.4. How can we achieve skill in language learning?

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Q.5. Describe the importance of language with its meaning.

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Q.6. Explain the origin and development of language.

OR
Specify development sequence of Hindi language.
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UNIT-1
Engaging with Narrative and

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Descriptive Accounts

EXPECTED ABILITIES OF STUDENTS

Q.7. Write the importance of expected abilities in students

and describe them.

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Which are the expected abilities in students? Describe
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them in brief.
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ENGAGING WITH NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS

Q.8. What do you mean by Narration technique and what

are its characteristics? Describe in detail.

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Which points should be concentrated while using
Narration technique? Describe with its characteristics.

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DESCRIPTION TECHNIQUE /
Q.9. What do you mean by description technique and what
can be done for increasing of its effectiveness?

OR
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Describe Description technique with its characteristics
and its limitations in detail.
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SELECTION OF CORE TEXTS AND CHAPTERS COMPRISING

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STORIES AND DRAMATIC INCIDENTS

Q.10. What is story technique? Write its characteristics with

its importance.

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What is story technique and how should be used in
main texts?
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DRAMATIC INCIDENTS /
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Q.11. How dramatic incidents increase comprehension in
students and what are the principles of dramatics
theme?

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What is dramatic incidence? How is it significant?
Explain in detail.
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READING AND ITS COMPONENTS

Q.12. Write the importance of reading and what is its characteristics?

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Describe reading and its components in detail.
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POEM /

Q.13. What do you feel about poem? Define poem and

mention its types.
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Q.14. What do you understand with classwise teacher-

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student dialogues?
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DIALOGUE /
Q 15. What is a dialogue? Explore its meaning and forms.
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Q.16. Which systems are adopted in dialogue writing?

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Q.17. Convert following story write up into dialogues.
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ORAL EXPRESSION /
Q.18. Mention characteristics of best oral expression.
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Q.19. What are the purposes to develop oral expression skills?

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Q.20. What is mean by oral expression? Present its importance.

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Q.21. What are other tools for oral expression?
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UNSEEN PASSAGE /
Q.22. What do you understand by unseen passage? Explain
general instruction for unseen passage.

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VARIOUS MODE OF HINDI LITERATURE

Q.23. Explain various mode of Hindi literature.

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EXPANSION /
Q.24. What do you understand with expansion? How will
you expand any thought, text or sentence?

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EXPLANATION SKILL /

Q.25. What do you mean by explanation? Describe the

factors which influence it. And write its types also.
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What is explanation skill? Describe it in detail with its
all components.

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GROUP READING /
Q.26. What do you mean by group reading?

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What is group reading? What precautions should be
taken while group reading?

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DISCUSSION /

Q.27. What is Discussion? Explain in detail.

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OR
Write the merits and demerits of discussion.
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WRITING BASED ON THE TEXT /
Q.28. What is writing based on the text and why is it
important? Explain.

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Write a short note on following /
(a) Re-telling /
(b) Discussion of Character and Situations

(c) Summary of Scene /

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(d) Extrapolation of Story /
(e) Converting a situation into a Dialogue
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VIVID DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT WITH COMIC STRIP STORIES

Q.29. Define the following with explanation:

(i) Vivid Descriptive Account /

(ii) Well-Produced comic strip stories
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FICTION /
Q.30. What do you mean by Fiction? Explain in brief.

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Write a short note on Fiction.
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UNIT-2
Engaging with Popular Subject-Based

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Expository Writing

TEACHING ABILITIES AND SKILL

Q.31. Which teaching abilities have teachers to develop in

themselves so that a popular subject-based teaching
might be carried out effectively?
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OR
What is teaching skill and how can the various teach-
ing skills be developed? Explain.

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LECTURING SKILL /
Q.32. What do you mean by lecturing skill? Describe it in
detail with its characteristics.

OR
What is lecturing skill? What are its components?
Explain in brief.
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UTILITY OF BLACK-BOARD

Q.33. What is the utility of Black-Board in teaching? Explain.

OR
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How can we say that "The Black-Board is a good friend
of a teacher"?
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TEACHING MODELS/
Q.34. Describe Teaching models in detail with its
fundamental elements.

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What do you mean by teaching model? Explain in
detail. Also write its characteristics.

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SKILLS OF ARTICLE WRITING /

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Q.35. Throw light on following:
(a) Introduction Skill
(b) Probing Questioning Skill
(c) Skill of Illustrating with Examples
(d) Reinforcement Skill
(e) Stimulus Variation Skill
(f) Review
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Explain the various teaching skills in detail with illus-
trations.

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INTEGRATION OF TEACHING SKILLS

Q.36. Write an essay on 'Integration of teaching skills'.

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Explain 'Integration of teaching skills', Discuss its strategies.
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UNIT-3

Engaging with Journalistic Writing

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NEWS-PAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Q.37. Throw light on the importance of news-papers and

magazines which are related to school. Also explain
its administration.

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How are news-papers and magazines related to school
useful and managed?

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ROLES OF EDITOR IN NEWS-PAPERS

Q.38. What are the characteristics and roles of an Editor in

news-papers? Explain.

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Describe news-paper editing and how is an Editor an
important part of news-paper publication? Explain.

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STEPS OF ARTICLE WRITING

Q.39. Write the main steps of article writing in detail.

OR

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Describe the main steps of article writing in detail.

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What is Article writing? Describe its main step in detail.

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CHARACTERISTIC OF ARTICLE

Q.40. Write the characteristics of article.

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What are the characteristics of article? Explain.
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IMPORTANT FACTS OF NEWS-PAPER PUBLICATION

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Q.41. What should the points be considered while publishing
a school magazine or news-paper?

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What are the important facts which should be
concentrated in school magazine or news-paper's
publication?

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STRUCTURE OF ARTICLE /
Q.42. How is the structure of article analysed? Explain.

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Describe the way by which the structure of article is
analysed.

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Write the roles of following in journalism:

(i) Partiality/

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(ii) Representation/
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CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES /
Q.43. What do you mean by co-curricular activities and what
importance have they in schools? Explain in detail.

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Are Co-curriclular activities helpful in overall
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development of students? Describe in detail.

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PRINCIPLES OF CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Q.44. Write the principles of co-curricular activities and how

they are organized? Explain in detail.

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Write an essay on co-curricular activities.
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ILLUSTRATION OF CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Q.45. Write short notes on the following:

(i) Students Association/

(ii) Educational Tour/
(iii) Dramatization/
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(iv) School Magazine/
(v) School Assembly/
(vi) Scouting/

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OR
Describe the out of course operations of useful co-cur-
ricular activities for students in detail.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF ARTICLE WRITING

Q.46. Write the characteristics of a good article writing.

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How can the article writing be made effective? Explain.
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LESSON PLAN OF EXPLANATION SKILL

Q.47. Write a micro lesson plan on the basis of story explanation

skill.
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