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B.Ed English

English Language Teaching – Course Content

Course Objectives

This course develops the knowledge, skills, and professional competence required for effective English language teaching. Student teachers will learn to:

  • Understand the aims, objectives, and significance of teaching English.

  • Develop essential micro-teaching skills for effective classroom instruction.

  • Understand different approaches to lesson planning and develop effective lesson plans.

  • Gain knowledge of various methods and approaches used in teaching English.

  • Understand and effectively use instructional media and emerging educational technologies in English language teaching.


Unit I: Aims and Objectives of Teaching English

This unit introduces the meaning, nature, scope, need, significance, and values of English language teaching. It covers instructional and behavioural objectives and their importance in effective teaching. Student teachers are introduced to Bloom’s Taxonomy, including the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, along with the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (2001) by Anderson and Krathwohl. The unit also explores the interrelationship among learning domains and correlation between subjects.

Unit II: Teaching Skills

This unit focuses on micro-teaching, including its concept, definition, steps, cycle, and its distinction from macro-teaching. Student teachers develop essential classroom teaching skills such as set induction, explaining, questioning, probing, stimulus variation, reinforcement, use of non-verbal clues, and closure. Link lessons and model teaching episodes are also included.

Unit III: Approaches to Teaching English

This unit introduces different approaches to lesson planning, the stages of lesson planning, and effective organisation of classroom teaching. Student teachers explore the Memory Level through the Herbartian Model, Understanding Level through the Morrison Teaching Model, and Reflective Level through the Bigge and Hunt Teaching Model. The preparation of unit plans and lesson plans is also covered.

Unit IV: Methods of Teaching English

The unit introduces both teacher-centred and learner-centred teaching methods. Teacher-centred approaches include the lecture method, demonstration, and team teaching. Learner-centred approaches include self-learning, programmed instruction, computer-assisted instruction, Keller Plan, project method, Activity Based Learning (ABL), Active Learning Method (ALM), mind mapping, and Advanced Active Learning Method (AALM).

Unit V: Instructional Media

This unit focuses on the classification and effective use of instructional media in English language teaching. It also introduces emerging educational technologies, including tele-conferencing, communication satellites, computer networking, word processors, blended learning, flipped classrooms, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality.

Suggested Learning Activities

  • Teacher or invited expert sessions on Bloom’s Taxonomy of Instructional Objectives.

  • Student seminars on Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom, and Artificial Intelligence.

  • Practical sessions on micro-teaching steps, cycles, principles, and teaching skills.

  • Expert sessions on the Herbartian and Morrison Teaching Models.

  • Student seminars and practical activities on Lesson Plan Writing.

B.Ed Syallabus

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