ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND PEDAGOGY COURSE

Course of study should be developed on the basis of the needs of the learners. While discussing curriculum issues and making of syllabuses, the report on ‘Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education, 2009’ emphasising the need for developing syllabi on the basis of local needs proclaims that ‘if the syllabi were to be designed with a view to inducting the students into a community of participant citizens, a new kind of institutional culture and ethos can be created in our general and professional colleges. For this is to happen, all syllbi should require the teachers and the students to apply what they have learnt in their courses, on studying a local situation, issue or problem. There should be sufficient room for the use of local data and resources to make the knowledge covered in the syllabus come alive as experience.’Bearing in mind the above mentioned suggestion, in the present study the course was developed on the basis of realistic, actual and local needs of the target group of learners.