HSA English Syllabus

Part A of the HSA English exam covers topics like a) Renaissance and freedom movement, b) General Knowledge and Current Affairs, and c) Teaching Aptitude and related Pedagogy. Part B covers questions related to the subject of English. The syllabus related to HSA English Exam 2022 is discussed below

PART A

• Module I : Renaissance and freedom movement

• Module II: General Knowledge and current affairs

• Module III: Methodology of teaching the subject

PART B

• Module I: Poetry

• Module II: Drama

• Module III: Prose and Fiction

• Module IV: Literary Criticism/ Terms

• Module V: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language

• Module VI: Modern English Usage

• Module VII: Basic Grammar

• Module VIII: Teaching of English

Part B

Module I: Poetry

1	Shakespeare	Sonnet 121	13	Tagore	Where the Mind Is Without Fear
2	Donne	A Valediction Forbidding Mourning	14	Nissim Ezekiel	Night of The Scorpion
3	Milton	On His Blindness	15	Kamala Das	An Introduction
4	Gray	Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard	16	A.K.Ramanujan	Obituary
5	Wordsworth	Tintern Abbey	17	Robert Frost	Home Burial
6	Shelley	To A Skylark	18	Emily Dickinson	Because I Could Not Stop for Death
7	Keats	Ode on A GrecianUrn	19	Wole Soyinka	A Telephone Conversation
8	Tennyson	Ulysses	20	Meena Alexander	House of A Thousand Doors
9	Browning	My Last Duchess	21	Margaret Atwood	This Is A Photograph Of Me
10	Arnold	Dover Beach	22	David Diop	Africa
11	W.B.Yeats	A Prayer For MyDaughter	23	Jack Davis	Aboriginal Australia
12	Sylvia Plath	Daddy

Module 2. Drama

1.   Shakespeare                 : Macbeth

2.   Sheridan                       : School for Scandal

3.   Oscar Wilde                  : The Importance of Being Ernest

4.   Ibsen                             : A Doll's House

5.   Shaw                             : Pygmalion

6.   J.M. Synge                     : Riders to The Sea

7.   Samuel Beckett              : Waiting for Godot

8.   Arthur Miller                   : Death of A Salesman

9.   Tennessee Williams       : The Glass Menagerie

10.   Girish Karnad               : Nagamandala

Module 3. Drama

1.   Francis Bacon                 : Of Studies

2.   Steele                              : The Trumpet Club

3.   A.G. Gardiner                   : On the Rule of The Road

4.   E.M. Forster                    : On Tolerance

5.   Bertrand Russel               : Functions of A Teacher

6.   Dr.Radhakrishnan           : Humanities vs Science

7.   Emily Bronte                     : Wuthering Heights

8.   George Orwell                  : Animal Farm

9.   Hemingway                      : The Old Man and The Sea

10.   Shashi Deshpande         : Roots and Shadows

11.   Arundati Roy                   : The God of Small Things

12.   Toni Morrison                  : The Bluest Eye

 Module 4: Literary Criticism/ Terms

1.   Rasa

2.   Dhwani

3.   Aristotle: Poetics

4.   Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

5.   Coleridge: Biographia Litereria Chapter 14

6.   Arnold: Study of Poetry

7.   Eliot: Tradition and The Individual Talent

8.   Saussure: Nature of The Linguistic Sign

9.   Showalter: Towards A Feminist Poetics

Terms and Movements 

• Based on the latest editionofM.H. Abrams - A Glossary of Literary Terms Classicism, Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Magical Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Russian Formalism, Marxism, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminism, Post Colonialism, Modernism and Post Modernism

Module 5: Linguistics, Phonetics and History of Language

1.   Phonology

2.   Morphology

3.   Syntax

4.   Semantics

5.   Langue and Parole; Competence and Performance

6.   Organs of Speech

7.   Classification of Speech Sounds

8.   Stress, Rhythm, Intonation

9.   Transcription

10.  Indo-European Family of languages

11.   Loan Words-Latin, Scandinavian, French, Indian

12.   Englishes - American, Australian, Indian, and African
Module 6: Modern English Usage

1.   Sentence Correction

2.   Vocabulary

3.   Synonyms and Antonyms

4.   Give one word

5.   Commonly confused words

6.   Language Functions such as agreeing, complaining etc.

7.   Appropriate word order

8.   Appropriate sentence order

9.   Idioms

10.   Passage for comprehension

Module 7: Basic Grammar

1.   Article

2.   Prepositions

3.   Clauses

4.   Tenses

5.   Phrasal Verbs

6.   Conjunctions

7.   Reported Speech

8.   Voice

9.   Question Tag

10.   Transformation of sentences

Module 8: Teaching of English

1. Schools - Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism

2. Skills and subskills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

3. Language Acquisition and Learning, Krashen

4. Methods and Approaches: Grammar Translation; Audio-lingual; Direct Method; Structural- Oral Situational Approach; Communicative Approach; Bilingual Method; Humanistic Approaches

5. Use of AV aids and ICT

6. Teaching of Prose, Poetry and Grammar

7. Testing and Evaluation

8. Learner Types

9. Teaching learners with disability

10. NCF, KCF on teaching of English