Course Name: Practical English: Learning and Teaching

Course abstract

One of the aims of this course is to teach practical English without any textbook and avoiding references to formal grammar as far as possible. Along with that, it illustrates the employed scheme and methodology of teaching in full view of the participants. As such, a sincere follower of this course will not only develop a good command over.English in all its operational aspects, but also acquire the technique of teaching it to others.

In order to achieve this with adult learners within a limited span of time, the scheme makes use of the medium of a so called Common Local Language (CLL) which is presumably familiar to its target audience. In this particular instance, Hindi has been taken as the CLL and the participants will be expected to have a basic operational aptitude in Hindi. [After collecting the feedback on this, partner groups will be sought to develop other versions of the course with Kannada, Tamil, Bengali etc as CLL on the basis of the same core material, which is independent of the medium language.]


Course Instructor

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Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta

Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His teaching and research areas are robotics,theory of machines,computer aided design, optimization, applied mathematics, communication skills etc. He is the author of the PG textbook Applied Mathematical Methods (Pearson, 2006). His other interests are languages, literature, history and philosophy.
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Course Sponsors

Teaching Assistant(s)

ANANYA BHATTACHARYA

IIT Kanpur

ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY

IIT Kanpur

ARUNJYOTI SINHA ROY

IIT Kanpur

RAMYA N BAPAT

IIT Kanpur

 Course Duration : Jul-Sep 2015

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 Syllabus

 Enrollment : 18-May-2015 to 12-Jul-2015

 Exam registration : 01-Jul-2015 to 15-Aug-2015

 Exam Date : 06-Sep-2015, 13-Sep-2015

Enrolled

11562

Registered

183

Certificate Eligible

146

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Elite

7

Successfully completed

35

Participation

104

Success

Elite

Gold





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>=90 - Elite+Gold
60-89 - Elite
35-59 - Successfully Completed
<=34 - Certificate of Participation

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment scores are not considered for the final certificate score and not being published.
  • FINAL SCORE (Score on Certificate) = Certifcation exam score(out of 100)
Practical English: Learning and Teaching - Toppers list

ANKUR SHRINGI 77%

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

DR. DIVYA BARTARIA 70%

United Institute of Technology

S.V. KRUTHIKA 66%

STELLA MARIS COLLEGE

KAYATHRI DEVI .D 63%

KAMARAJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

JIGYASA CHAND 63%

DR. T THIMMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

ARJIT BHARDWAJ 60%

PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, CHANDIGARH

JAWED EQUBAL 60%

COMBINED GROUP CO.

PREETI NEGI 59%

HCL

SAIKAT BANERJEE 59%

DR. K.N. MODI UNIVERSITY

KANAK KALITA 52%

IIEST SHIBPUR

MAHARASI SUBBIAH 52%

SRI SARADA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, TIRUENVELI

GARIMA GUPTA 52%

ICG

GOMATAM SESHU 52%

GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

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Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.