English Introduction

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1. ENG 101 - ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (0+1)

English - Introduction

Authentic English has grown out of an educational, project, viz., "English for
Science and Technology" sponsored and implemented by the British Council in two
universities and two autonomous colleges of science and technology in south India. The
project brought together specialists with experience in global EFL/ESL contexts, and
sought to give attention to EST pedagogy, techniques, course design and materials
writing. The project also explored and validated ways of assessing language skills.
Series highlights

• The lessons in each unit focus on developing communicative competence throughsimulated tasks involving and integrating skills (reading, speaking, writing andlistening) and study skills (for example, listening and taking notes, engaging indiscussion and making presentations). 
• Learners engage with authentic reading, writing, listening and speaking tasks withcarefully planned pre-reading, - writing, -listening and –speaking tasks. These are followed by the consolidation work by way of post-reading, -writing, -listening and–speaking tasks. Each lesson unit thus has a clear profile of skills as well as language use.
• The learning materials used in this course book are also authentic in that they are real-world materials used by practising engineers, nutritionists, bio-chemists,agricultural scientists and other specialists in diverse fields.
• The books use a range of interactive formats. Learners work in pairs, groups and as a whole class with the teacher as facilitator and guide. Across these formats,students work not only with language and content but also with the social and linguistic conventions accompanying these formats, for example, turn-taking,cooperating and mediating.

Reference            

TNAU - Tamilnadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore Materials And TNAU - Affiliated Private College Materials, TNAU Government College Materials, ICAR - Indian Council Of Agriculture Research, New Delhi Materials to Collected.