ELT 102 - Reading Skills-I

Students will learn to read intensively and extensively in order to gain fluency of reading as well as close reading of texts between the lines. Readings range from fairy tales to short fiction, from tragedies to modern cinema.

1. Improve Reading Comprehension:

   • Develop the ability to understand, interpret, and analyze complex texts.

   • Enhance skills such as skimming, scanning, inference, and critical reading.

2. Foster Critical Thinking:

   • Encourage students to analyze themes, characters, and narrative techniques in both literature and film.

   • Compare and contrast written texts with their film adaptations to identify differences in storytelling and interpretation.

3. Enhance Analytical Writing Skills:

   • Practice writing reflective essays, comparative analyses, and character studies.

   • Develop the ability to articulate insights and arguments clearly and persuasively.

4. Expand Vocabulary and Language Proficiency:

   • Exposure to rich literary language and dialogue in films to improve vocabulary and fluency.

   • Practice using new vocabulary in discussions and written assignments.

5. Introduce Film Analysis:

   • Learn the basics of visual storytelling, including cinematography, mise-en-scène, and editing.

   • Understand how films adapt and interpret literary works.

6. Promote Cultural and Historical Awareness:

   • Explore the historical and social contexts of the literature and films studied.

   • Discuss how these works reflect or critique societal issues.

7. Encourage Collaborative Learning:

   • Participate in group discussions and peer reviews to share perspectives and insights.

   • Develop teamwork and communication skills through collaborative projects.

All the works on the syllabus have been provided by the instructor in a course package accompanying the syllabus. Therefore, there is no particular textbook.

All the primary text on the syllabus have been uploaded to the "course material" directory online on the Teams cloud. Secondary sources are:

Abraham, Taisha. Women’s Writings In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries: Short Stories. New Delhi: PHI, 2013. Allen, Walter. The Short Story in English. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Armstrong, Tim. Modernism: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Polity, 2005. Aycock, Wendell M. The Teller and the Tale: Aspects of the Short Story. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982. Baldwin, Dean R. Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880-1950. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Basseler, Michael, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of the American Short Story. Genres–Developments–Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT, 2011. Bates, H.E. The Modern Short Story. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1941. Bayley, John. The Short Story: Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1988. Beachcroft, T.O. The Modest Art. Oxford: Oxord University Press, 1968. Bendixen, Alfred and James Nagel. A Companion to the American Short Story. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Berger, Roger A. Telling Stories: Transformations of the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Diss. University of Wisconsin, 1984. Brooker, Peter et al., eds. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009-2013. Brosch, Renate. Short Story: Textsorte und Leseerfahrung. Trier: WVT, 2007. Bruck, Peter. The Black American Short Story in the 20th Century: A Collection of Critical Essays. Amsterdam: B.R. Gruner, 1977. Buchholz, Sabine. Narrative Innovationen in der modernistischen britischen Short Story. Trier: WVT, 2003. Chan, Winnie. The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. Chialant, Maria Teresa and Marina Lops, eds. Time and the Short Story. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. Childs, Peter. Modernism. London: Routledge, 2000. Daly, Nicholas. Modernism, Romance and the fin de siècle: Popular Fiction and British Culture, 1880-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Davies, Alistair. An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Modernism. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982. Drewery, Claire. Modernist Short Fiction by Women: the Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Dvorák, Marta, and W.H. New. Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context. Montreal: McGillQueen’s University Press, 2007. Einhaus, Ann-Marie. The Short Story and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Ellmann, Maud. The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Entin, Joseph

For Further Reading

Bean, T. W. (2004). Reading in the discipline: Strategies for success in college courses. Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.
Oakley, B. (2014). Making thinking visible: Educational research at its best. Heinemann.
Santrock, J. W. (2017). Educational psychology (5th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
Fluency:
Chomsky, C. (2002). Read to your baby. Workman Publishing.
Rasinski, T. V. (2003). The fluency prescription: Research-based practices for reading success. Scholastic Inc.
Stahl, S. A. (2002). Making children fluent readers: Schoolwide fluency interventions. Heinemann.
Vocabulary:
Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing words to life: Robust vocabulary instruction. Guilford Publications.
Nagy, W. E., & Scott, J. A. (2000). Word reading and vocabulary development: A developmental perspective. Psychology Press.
Stahl, S. A. (1992). Vocabulary connections: Linking the curriculum. Scholastic Inc.