This document outlines a course on communication skills with the aim of developing students' linguistic and communicative competence. The course focuses on enhancing students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through examples and opportunities for personal, academic, and professional communication. It consists of 15 modules over 30 lectures addressing topics such as the communication process, listening skills, reading skills, writing skills, technical writing, non-verbal communication, interview skills, group discussions, presentation skills, and technology-based communication. Students will have opportunities to practice their communication skills through activities like presentations, group discussions, debates, and role plays.

1. COMMUNICATION SKILLS-II
(proposed by Dr. Intakhab Alam Khan)
COURSE OUTLINE
Considering the significance of communication skills, and its relation with
the target language, the course aims to develop and enhance the linguistic
and communicative competence of the students.
The focus is on the knowledge of the basic skills of English and the
enhancement of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for effective
communication. By providing suitable examples and environment, the
students will be exposed to various forms of personal, academic and
professional modes/types of communication.
The course outline will facilitate the ‘self-learning mode’ to enhance effective
communication skills in a modern, globalised context.
COURSE DETAIL
Module Topics and Contents No. of
Lectures
1. Introduction to Communication:
Need for Effective Communication.
2
2. The ProcessofCommunication:
Levels of communication; Flow of communication; Use
of language in communication; Communication
networks; Significance of technical communication.
2

2. 3. Listening Skills:
Listening as an active skill; Types of Listeners; Listening
for general content; Listening to fill up information;
Intensive Listening; Listening for specific information;
Developing effective listening skills
2
4. Reading Skills :
Skimming; Scanning; Understanding the gist of an
argument;
Identifying the topic sentence; Inferring lexical and
contextual meaning; recognizing coherence and
sequencing of sentences; Improving comprehension
skills.
2
5. Writing Skills:
Sentence formation; Use of appropriate diction;
Paragraph and Essay Writing; Coherence and Cohesion.
2
6. TechnicalWriting:
Letter Writing:
Formal, informal and business letters.
Job Application :
Cover letter, Differences between bio-data, CV and
Resume.
Report Writing:
Basics of Report Writing; Structure of a report; Types of
reports.
2
7. Technicalwriting continues 2
8. Non-verbal Communication and Body Language:
Forms of non-verbal communication; Interpreting body-
language cues; Kinesics; Effective use of bodylanguage.
2
9. Interview Skills:
Types of Interviews; Ensuring success in job interviews;
Appropriate use of non-verbal communication.
2
10. Group Discussion:
Differences between group discussionand debate;
Ensuring success in group discussions.
2
11. PresentationSkills:
Oral presentation and public speaking skills; business
presentations.
2

3. 12. Technology-basedCommunication:
Netiquettes: effective e-mail messages; power-point
presentation; enhancing editing skills using computer
software.
2
13. Practice ofcommunication:
1-presentation,
2-group discussion,
3-debates,
4- paraphrasing,
5-picture composition(written/oral)
7- role plays
2
14- Practice continues… 2
15- Follow up (written& spokenskills 2
Totalnumber of lectures: 30