The PGCTE HANDBOOK (2020)

POST-GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH

IMPORTANT

Please go through this handbook as soon as

you receive it, and before starting to study
the materials. Refer to it each time you send
in assignments.

SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY

HYDERABAD 500 007, INDIA
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The School reserves the right to change the rules

detailed in this booklet. However, you will be
informed about those changes through
supplementary circulars in good time.

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Contents Page

A. ABOUT THE PGCTE 4

B. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROGRAMME: 5
(i) Duration 5
(ii) Seven courses of study 5
(iii) Studying at a distance 5
(iv) How to study the blocks 6
(v) The role of assignments 7

C. STUDY SCHEDULE AND DEADLINES 8

(i) Study schedule 8

(ii) Deadlines 8

(iii) Re-registration 9

D. ASSIGNMENTS 10

(i) How to write answers to an assignment 10

(ii) How to send in a completed assignment 10

(iii) Some Do's and Don'ts about sending assignments 10

(iv) Grading of assignments 12

(v) Using external help/ support: consequences 14

(vi) Facilities for reappearing for the final examination 14

E. POINTS FOR CLARIFICATION 17

F. ADDITIONAL FACILITIES AVAILABLE 17
G. CONTACT-CUM-EXAMINATION PROGRAMME 17
H. CHECKLIST FOR SENDING IN AN ASSIGNMENT 19
I. CHARTING YOUR PROGRESS 20

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A. ABOUT THE PGCTE

Welcome to this programme leading to the Post-graduate Certificate in the Teaching of English
(PGCTE). If, as a teacher, you felt that you would like to keep abreast of current developments
in your field, but commitments at work and at home have kept you from attending any
specialized residential course, we hope that the PGCTE programme through the distance mode
will help you update your knowledge and enable you to become a better and more effective
teacher. Even if you have no teaching experience, we hope you will find the programme useful,
as it aims to give you the what, how and why of language teaching.
After completing this programme successfully you can join the PGDTE Programme (through
the distance mode).

You can read more details about the course in the Programme Project Report, available here:

http://www.efluniversity.ac.in/images/Documents/UGC_DEB/Annexure-10-PPR-PGCTE.pdf

Our emails for contact

Always mention your Roll number when you write to us.

School of Distance Education Office: eflu.sde@gmail.com
Programme Coordinators-PGCTE: eflu.pgcte@gmail.com
Dean, School of Distance Education: deande@efluniversity.ac.in

For any queries:

First, write to the School of Distance Education Office. They have all your records (address,
assignment details, etc.).

Second, if your query remains unanswered for a week, then escalate the matter to the
Programme Coordinators.

Third, if your query remains unresolved for a week, even after writing to the Programme
Coordinators, escalate the matter to the Dean, School of Distance Education.

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B. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROGRAMME

(i) Duration
The duration of the programme is one year. The programme consists of two parts:
a. 8 months of effective study through correspondence (i.e. from July to February)
b. a contact-cum-examination programme in June-July

(ii) Seven Courses of Study

For this programme you will be required to study seven courses each consisting of five blocks
(except Practice Teaching, which consists of three blocks).
The seven courses are:

1. Phonetics and Spoken English (five blocks)

2. Introduction to Linguistics (five blocks)
3. Modern English Grammar and Usage (five blocks)
4. Interpretation of Literature (five blocks)
5. Methods of Teaching English (five blocks)
6. Materials for the Teaching of English (five blocks)
7. Practice Teaching (three blocks)

(iii) Studying at a distance

We understand that it might be a long time since you studied for any regular course, and if you
are a teacher, it may be even more difficult to go back to being a student again. Furthermore,
you might never have done any course through the distance mode and it will perhaps take you
some time to adjust yourself to studying through the distance mode. People often feel that
learning through the distance mode has certain inherent handicaps - you will perhaps miss the
face-to-face contact with a teacher and with fellow participants. However, you need not feel
isolated or lonely because you are studying on your own. Studying through the distance mode
has its own advantages: you can study at home, in comfortable familiar surroundings and at
your own pace. If you don't understand a certain section, you can take your time to go through
it again without feeling embarrassed at holding others up, as you would in a classroom; if you
find some sections easy, you can go through them faster than a teacher would in the class.
Sometimes, when going through the blocks, you might be tired, confused or just not in the
mood. You then have the option to take a break, have a snack and try again, or to just call it a
day, which a teacher wouldn't allow.

Perhaps the greatest advantage that you will have is the benefit of two teachers: one is the expert
who writes your blocks, the other is the tutor who corrects your assignments and offers
suggestions and comments to help you through the programme. Even though you can't see or
hear your teachers, your contact with them can and does become more personal as the
programme progresses. As you work through the blocks you will perhaps find that you have
received more attention and guidance from your distance mode teacher than you would have in a
class of 60-80 students.

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To ensure that you derive the maximum benefit from this programme, we would like to give you
a few important details.

(iv) How to study the blocks

Each course, except Practice Teaching, as we have already said, has 5 blocks. Every block deals
with one particular theme or area. Thus the five blocks of a course deal with five different
themes/areas of the course. Each block, again, consists of a few units. And each unit deals with
one topic related to the theme/area of the block it belongs to. The blocks in each course are
largely self-contained, i.e., it is not necessary for you to do any extra reading before you attempt
the assignments. However, in the units of each block we have given lists of books as
recommended reading: these will give you valuable information and insights into the topics
covered, and we hope you will be able to read at least some of them during the programme.
However, do not worry if you do not have access to any of the books listed.

One point we would like you to remember is that you cannot read the blocks as you would read
a book, concentrating on the sections that interest you, and skipping other sections. It is very
important that you go through all the blocks, and all the units of each block in the order in
which the teacher has organized them. Also, read the related units when you see a cross-
reference.

a. Activities and review questions

All units have been divided into sections, with activities and/ or review questions at the end of
most of the sections. Please make sure that you work through them before you proceed to the
next part of the unit. These exercises are designed to help you assess your progress in, and
grasp of, the subject, and to summarize the content of each section. Unless you do the
activities and try to answer the review questions, you will have difficulties with the sections that
follow. The answers to the review questions are provided at the end of each unit, and working
them out will help you to do the assignments better.

Some blocks, in addition to review questions at the end of each section/unit, also have activities
preceding or in the middle of a section. Do not skip these as they are designed to make you
engage more actively with the learning material, and they will not only help you to understand
the unit better but also to attempt the assignments with greater understanding and confidence.

You must see that you carry out all the instructions in the unit, and that you study the subject
matter of each unit thoroughly until you understand it. Never overlook or pass by a term or a
statement you do not fully understand. Look it up immediately in a dictionary or another unit
where it may have been explained.

b. Notes and summaries

As you go through the units, keep a notebook for each course where you could make a brief
summary of the information you have gathered from each unit. You need not make long notes -
- just a few phrases, a chart or diagram would do -- but these notes should help you arrive at
your individual plan or summary of the facts presented. This kind of summary will help you
revise the units at the end.

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We have also provided space in the blocks in the form of wide margins and space at the end of
each unit. Use this space to make margin notes - this could be important points, or points that
need clarification etc.-and summaries of sections or units. You could also list the new terms
and concepts introduced in each unit as well as the concepts you find difficult to understand
and would like to seek clarification on.

(v) The role of assignments

There are two assignments for each course. In all, there are seven courses, thirty three blocks
and fourteen assignments.

The assignments are based entirely on the content of the blocks and so it is important that you
read every block carefully. Before you attempt to answer an assignment, make sure you have
read the block the assignment is based on.

Some participants, however, read only those parts of the units which they require to answer the
questions in the assignment. This is not a very good strategy because it leads to a superficial or
incomplete understanding of the units, and doesn’t get one good grades either!

The assignments are designed to serve three purposes. Firstly, attempting them will help you
check your understanding of the content of each block. Secondly, the assignments are used to
determine your eligibility to attend the final contact-cum-examination programme. Lastly, the
grades you get on your assignments are used to compute your internal assessment. To attend
the final contact programme you should have submitted all fourteen assignments by the
deadlines we have set.

 PLEASE CHECK THE ASSIGNMENTS AS SOON AS THEY ARE SENT TO YOU

TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE NO GAPS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY OF THEM.

 IN CASE YOU FIND THE ASSIGNMENTS ARE INCOMPLETE, WRITE TO US

IMMEDIATELY AFTER RECEIVING THEM. DON’T PUT IT OFF TILL LATER.

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C. STUDY SCHEDULE AND DEADLINES

i. Study schedule

As we said earlier, this might be the first time you are studying through the distance mode. One
of the disadvantages of this system is that generally you are not aware of the progress made by
fellow-participants and consequently you may slacken your own pace. To succeed in the
distance mode, the key word is regularity.

The system is such that you can work at your own pace and convenience. Each unit should take
you, on an average, 5-10 hours to work through (it could be more or less, depending on you).
When we say work through we mean you should not simply read through the unit but do all the
activities and review questions in each unit.

Keeping in mind the rush and slack periods in your job and the time you can give to the lessons
on holidays and in your free time, draw up a time-table for yourself. Adjust your study hours to
suit your individual schedule, but once you have made a time-table you must remember to
adhere to it. Set yourself a deadline for finishing each block/assignment.

We find that participants tend to send in all their assignments just before the deadlines. While
you can and should work at a pace convenient to you, if you put off study for the first few
months, you will find yourself rushing through the assignments. You will not give yourself time
to study the units carefully, and most importantly, if you send in assignments towards the end
you will not be able to get feedback on how well you have understood the units, which you can
get through tutor comments on each assignment. Also if you do a course planned for 9 months
in 5 months, you will find yourself resorting to surface study, without understanding the units.

ii. Deadlines

There are two deadlines for submission of assignments. If you are completing the course in
your first year, then,

Deadline 1: By this deadline 06 assignments (BOTH the assignments of the first lot of
THREE courses that we are sending you) are to be submitted (i.e.2 assignments x 3
courses = 06 assignments).

Deadline 2: By this deadline the remaining 08 assignments are to be submitted (2

assignments x 4 courses) = 08 assignments).

However, if you miss submitting the assignments in the first year and automatically go into the
second year of registration, then the two deadlines for submission of assignments are as
follows in your second year:

Deadline 1: By this deadline 07 assignments (the first assignment in each course) are to be
submitted (i.e.1 assignment x 7 courses = 07 assignments).

Deadline 2: By this deadline the remaining 07 assignments are to be submitted (1

assignments x 7 courses) = 07 assignments).

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The purpose of these deadlines is twofold:

1. They should help you pace your work so that you do not find yourself falling behind
schedule; and
2. They are also used to decide your eligibility to attend the contact-cum-examination
programme.

iii. Re-registration

Re-registration will be available to the following students

1. those who are unable to (successfully) complete all the required assignments
within two years; or
2. those who have completed the internal assignments but have not taken the final
examinations;

subject to the conditions mentioned below:

a. They will be required to pay 50% of all the fees they paid at the time of admission,
except the postage. This applies to foreign nationals also.
b. Their re-registration will be valid for one academic year. The total period of
registration including re-registration will not exceed three years, under any
circumstances.
c. No new materials will be sent to them.

If you wish to re-register for the third year you MUST:

1. Apply in June of the second year of your enrolment. (i.e. June 2022)
2. Pay a fee of Rs. 2350/- (Two thousand three hundred and fifty only). You will have to
send a DD for Rs.2350/- drawn in favour of The Registrar, The EFL University,
Hyderabad 500 007 along with your application for re-registration. If you are from a
foreign country, you will have to pay more for re-registration. If you are eligible for a fee
concession (SC/ST/PH/VH), please call up our office (040-2768-9597) to find out the
exact amount you need to make the DD for.

The total period of registration, including re-registration, will not exceed 03 (three) years, under
any circumstances.

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D. ASSIGNMENTS

(i) How to write answers to an assignment

1. Each assignment indicates the block/units it is based on. Read the complete block
before attempting to write an answer. Don’t do selective reading.
2. Understand the purpose and scope of the question(s) before writing your answer.
3. Write answers in your own words. Don’t lift chunks from the units.
4. Answer each assignment in each course on a separate sheet: e.g. you cannot do
Assignments I and II for Grammar on the same sheet; or Assignment I for both
Linguistics and Grammar on the same sheet.
5. Do not send an incomplete response sheet. Make sure you have answered all the
questions in an assignment before you send it to us. Incomplete responses will bring you
poor grades. Tie/pin/tag the pages properly and ensure that no sheet will be torn in
transit.
6. Use only A4 size paper for your responses. You can take the cover sheet (supplied by
us) as a model for the size. Don’t use very thin paper as this tears easily.
7. Leave a 1.5" margin on the left, and 4 lines in between each answer in an assignment.
This will enable your tutor to write comments in the appropriate places.
8. Write your answers legibly, or type them. Remember someone has to read them. Write
them using a PEN and not a PENCIL.
9. Make sure you answer the questions on the basis of the units/blocks sent to you.
10. You should not send printed articles taken from websites as your answers to
assignments. Your evaluators, on any suspicion, run your answers through anti-
plagiarism softwares, and if found to have been plagiarized, the assignment is assigned
the F grade, even if it was only one answer that was plagiarized.

(ii) How to send in a completed assignment.

1. Pin each assignment in each course separately.

2. A sample cover sheet has been supplied to you by us. Make photocopies of the cover
sheet and attach a cover sheet for each assignment i.e., you should attach 14 cover
sheets, one for each of the 14 assignments.
Please note that if each assignment does not have a cover sheet attached, we will not
be responsible for the loss of your assignment, or the grade for each assignment not
being recorded correctly.
3. On the cover sheet write your complete roll number, name, full address for
correspondence, date, name of the course and the assignment number and the total
number of pages the assignment consists of (all in BLOCK LETTERS) in the space
provided on the top right hand. Do not write your answer on the cover sheet.

4. Send your completed assignments to:

The Dean
School of Distance Education
The English and Foreign Languages University
Near Tarnaka, Hyderabad - 500 007, INDIA

(iii) Some Do's and Don’ts about sending in assignments

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Some Do's
1. Check the blocks and assignments, as soon as you receive them. Ask for missing
pages/units/assignments, if any, immediately. If you wait till you start writing answers to
the assignments, you will lose valuable time.
2. Check that you have written your roll number correctly. Don't rely on memory. A
mistake in the roll number may result in your scripts getting lost, or your hard work
earning a good grade for someone else!
3. Follow our instructions carefully. If you don't, you may be asked to resubmit the
assignments. Also failure to follow our instructions may prove to be to your
disadvantage.
4. Indicate on the cover sheet the number of pages each assignment consists of. This
will help us check if any pages are missing or lost.
5. Every time you send assignments, immediately send us an email in which you should
enter your roll number, course, and assignment numbers for which you have sent
response sheets. This will enable us to send you a quick acknowledgement of receipt of
the responses as soon as we receive them.

Your entries in the email should look like this:

Kindly acknowledge receipt of the following assignments from:

Name : Mr. Inoka Achumi
Roll No. : 20838

Course Assignment No(s)

Phonetics and Spoken English 1,2
Modern English Grammar and Usage -
Methods of Teaching English 1
Interpretation of Literature --
Materials for the Teaching of English --
Introduction to Linguistics --
Practice Teaching --

6. Work regularly. You might think we are emphasizing the point unnecessarily but our
experience has shown that participants who submit most of their assignments just before
the deadline get poor grades. You should remember that by working regularly you get a
chance to do better in later assignments because you can benefit from your tutors'
comments.
7. Maintain an account of assignments sent by you and the acknowledgements and the
corrected response sheets received by you. This will help you to maintain your schedule
of work and avoid the possibility of sending the same assignment a second time. Also
maintaining a record of the assignments you send each time will help you know where
you stand. You can use the pro forma CHARTING YOUR PROGRESS (given at the
end of this booklet) for maintaining the account.
8. Send assignments by Registered Post/Speed Post, or through a reliable courier, even
though it is a little expensive. This will avoid any chances of assignments getting lost.
And to be on the safe side, please keep a copy of all your assignment responses with

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you. Please retain the receipt from the courier/post office for tracking the
assignment. We may not be able to individually acknowledge receipt of assignments
in time, depending on the number of assignments turned in.

Some Don'ts

1. Don’t submit assignments by e-mail. We prefer typed assignments but accept

handwritten assignments too. Online/ e-mail submission of assignments is not
allowed.
2. Don't write your assignments on undersized/oversized or thin paper. Do not use RED ink
while answering. Do not answer the assignments in PENCIL.
3. Don't write anything on the top left corner of the cover sheet. It is for office use.
4. Don’t write anything in the space left for the Tutor's comments.
5. Avoid over-writing particularly while writing your roll number and the assignment
numbers. Let these be very distinct and clear.
6. Don't pin all the assignments together: If you pin all your assignments together, in our
records we will enter only the number of the first assignment in that bundle. The later
assignments will still be due from you, according to our records. This will affect you
adversely because
a. your assignments might get lost
b. you will not be considered eligible to attend the contact programme.
7. Don't mix up the assignments when you send them to us. Each assignment for each
course should be tied separately and all the assignments should be arranged in order.
8. Don't send incomplete assignments. Incomplete responses will bring you low grades.
9. Don’t send in an assignment in two parts. We cannot take the responsibility of
attaching the second part to the first. The chances are that it will be treated as an
incomplete assignment and that you will consequently get a low grade for it.
10. Don't enclose points for clarification along with the assignment. Send them to us only
by email. If you wish to post them to us, do so separately and not with the assignments.
11. Don’t wait to complete all the assignments in a course before sending them. Post them
as and when you complete them.

(iv) Grading of assignments

Each of the assignments will be graded and sent back to you. The purpose of these assignments
is to help you ensure that you have really grasped the subject matter of the blocks, and also to
guide you. (Please don't misplace these corrected assignments but keep them carefully in a
folder. You will be required to bring these assignments with you when you come for the
Contact Programme.)

A student’s performance in each course will be assessed on the basis of (a) assignments during
the programme and (b) the examinations at the end of the Contact Programme. The relative
weight of (a) and (b) above is 25:75 for all courses.
To pass in a course:
i. a student should get at least Grade D in the course, and
ii. he/she should not get F grade in the course either in the internal assessment or in the
final examination

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For evaluating a student’s performance in the programme and also in a given course, the
following 8-point grading scale will be used.

O A+ A B+ B C D F

Letter Grade Point Grade Point Range Marks Equivalence Quality

Grade Equivalent Descriptor
O 9 7.65 – 9.00 85 – 100 Outstanding
A+ 7 6.75 – 7.64 75 – 84.9 Excellent
A 6 5.85 – 6.74 65 – 74.9 Very good
B+ 5 4.95 – 5.84 55 – 64.9 Good
B 4.7 4.50 – 4.94 50 – 54.9 Above Average
C 4.2 4.05 – 4.49 45 – 49.9 Average
D 3.6 3.60 – 4.04 40 – 44.9 Pass
F 0 0.00 – 3.59 00 – 39.9 Fail
AB 0 Absent

Final Grade Point (GP) Calculation in Individual Courses

Final Internal Assessment GP x 25 Final Examination GP x 75

----------------------------------------- + ------------------------------------------

100 100

Calculation of Over-all Grade Point Average (OGPA) and Final Overall Grade
The Final Overall Grade will be calculated on the OGPA earned over all the courses of the
programme. The OGPA will be calculated as follows:

GP1+GP2+GP3+GP4........GP..n
GPA = -----------------------------------------------------------------
Total Number of Courses in the Programme
Where
GP1 = Course 1 Final Grade Points
GP2 = Course 2 Final Grade Points
GP3 = Course 3 Final Grade Points
GP4 = Course 4 Final Grade Points
A student who gets Grade F in one or more courses will be deemed to have failed.

If you get a relatively low grade for any assignment, don’t get disheartened: look at the tutor’s
comments (which will indicate where you went wrong), and study again the specific unit(s) on
which the assignment was based. Even though assignments are used to compute your final
result, their primary purpose is to help you grow as a learner - as a means of building up a
system of communication between you and us, and, through it, to promote your growth and
development as a learner.

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Formula for conversion of OGPA to Percentage:

Formula for conversion to percentage: (OGPA/9) * 100

For example:
if OGPA is 9, percentage will be (9/9) * 100 = 100%
if OGPA is 3.6, percentage will be (3.6/9) * 100 = 40%
if OGPA is 9, percentage will be (4.95/9) * 100 = 55%

(v) Using external help/ support: consequences

Sometimes, especially when you have not allowed yourself enough time to work through
the materials, you might find yourself tempted to simply reproduce the relevant extracts
of the units, or to take help from someone you know who is also doing the programme, or
someone who knows the subject. It has also become common among students to use
internet sources when writing their answers. Though it is an easy way of getting over the
assignment hurdle, you no doubt know that that is a form of plagiarism and the strongest
disciplinary action can be taken in such cases.

It will not help you in the long run to take external support because you will be penalised.
Any answer/ assignment that relies on external help, i.e. if it is

 lifted from an outside source

 copied verbatim from the units
 downloaded from an internet source
 copied from another student

will be given an F grade .

IF YOUR ASSIGNMENTS ARE FOUND TO BE SIMILAR TO THE POINT OF BEING

IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF ANOTHER STUDENT, YOU AND THE OTHER
STUDENT WILL BOTH BE AWARDED AN F GRADE FOR THESE
ASSIGNMENTS.

(vi) Facilities for reappearing for the final examination

Make-up examinations

1. Make-up examinations will be conducted for those students who, because of

circumstances beyond their control, are unable to take a part or the whole of the final
examinations.
2. Students desirous of taking the make-up examinations should have completed the
obligatory residence requirement, i.e., attending the obligatory contact programme.
3. Students must apply for permission to take the make-up examinations immediately after
completing the contact programme and on or before the day(s) of the regular
examinations they are going to be absent from. Applications should be made to the
Dean, School of Distance Education, through the Coordinator(s) of the contact
programme at the centre at which the student attends the contact programme. The make-
up examinations will be held only at Hyderabad.

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4. Students will be allowed to take the make-up examinations only if they have valid
reasons for not taking the regular examinations. A student’s eligibility for make-up
examinations will be decided by the Dean of the School in consultation with the
Programme Coordinators.

Supplementary examinations

This facility is available to those students who have obtained an F grade in one or more
courses.

Students who are deemed to have failed can reappear for the final examination on payment of
the stipulated fees, subject to the following conditions:

1. (a) Students who fail in the final examination will be permitted to take the supplementary
examination once. This supplementary examination will be held along with the final
examinations in the following year.

(b) SC and ST students will be given one more chance to appear for the supplementary
examination, i.e., the second supplementary examinations held after the final
examinations in which they were deemed to have failed for the first time.

2. Students who have obtained an F grade in one or more courses are permitted to appear for
supplementary examination in all and only in the courses in which they have obtained an F
grade.

Re-evaluation

Students are eligible to apply for re-evaluation of their answer scripts by paying the stipulated
fees. The application for re-evaluation will have to be made within fifteen days of the
announcement of results. The answer script under reference will be sent to two examiners, who
shall be other than the original examiner. The average of the grades given by these two
examiners shall constitute the final grade irrespective of its being higher or lower than the
original grade. A student can apply for re-evaluation of an answer script in any course only once.

There is no re-evaluation for Practice Teaching/ Oral examination(s).

Grade Improvement Examinations

1. Grade improvement examinations are conducted for the students of the PGCTE
programme. This provision is not available for the Practice Teaching course.
2. Students who obtain grade B or below, up to grade D, in a course may take the Grade
Improvement examination for that course.
3. Students are allowed to take these examinations only once. However, SC/ST students
shall be given one extra chance.
4. Applications for the Grade Improvement examinations will have to be made to the Dean,
School of Distance Education, within two months of the declaration of results.
5. The Grade Improvement examinations will be conducted on the dates announced by the
School of Distance Education.

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6. The better of the two grades obtained in the final examination and the Grade
Improvement examination will be taken as final.
7. Students taking supplementary examinations can also apply for grade improvement in
courses where they have scored a grade of B, C or D.
8. Students cannot apply for both re-evaluation and grade improvement in the same course
simultaneously. After re-evaluation, if the student retains an F Grade, he/she can take the
supplementary examination, but if awarded a grade of D or above in re-evaluation,
he/she cannot apply for Grade Improvement.
9. Grade Improvement examination in a course must be taken in the first Grade
Improvement examinations held following the declaration of results.

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E. POINTS FOR CLARIFICATION

If, on reading a block, you find that there are some parts of it that you don't quite understand,
write to us for clarification of your doubts. Please prefer to do the following only by email.

When sending in points for clarification:

1. Write PGCTE POINTS FOR CLARIFICATION in the subject line of the email.
2. Send a separate email for each course, and remember to specify on top of the email and
in the subject line, the block and the unit in which you have the doubt. These emails
should be sent to the School of Distance Education Office, who will forward them on to
the tutors concerned. Remember each course is handled by a separate tutor so don't
write your problems in all the courses in a single email: use a separate email for each
course.
3. Give your roll number, name, the name of the course, the number of the block and or the
assignment etc., when sending in points for clarification.
4. Send your points for clarification separately by email. Do not put them in the same
cover as assignment responses even if you happen to send them at the same time.
5. You may email them to the School of Distance Education Office at
<eflu.sde@gmail.com>. They will in-turn forward it to the concerned course monitors,
who will respond to your query. In case, you do not get any reply, to your email within a
week, please escalate the matter, to the Programme coordinators by forwarding your
original email to <eflu.pgcte@gmail.com>. In case, your query remains unanswered for
a week even after that, please escalate the matter to the Dean, School of Distance
Education with a covering note on your original query and its date by sending an email
to <deande@efluniversity.ac.in>.

F. ADDITIONAL FACILITIES AVAILABLE

During the period of your enrolment you can visit The EFL University library any time, on
production of an Identification Certificate (which you can collect from the School of Distance
Education), and on payment of a fee. However, books will be issued to you only during the
contact programme on payment of a library deposit, which is refundable at the end of the contact
programme.

G. CONTACT-CUM-EXAMINATION-PROGRAMME

There will be a 4-week contact-cum-examination programme in June-July (the exact dates will
be notified later).

Attendance at the contact-cum-examination programme is compulsory. You will be eligible to

attend the contact-cum-examination programme if you meet both the deadlines for submission
of assignments and you do not get an F grade in the internal assessment for any of the courses.

If you are eligible to attend the contact-cum-examination programme, you will be informed by
us.

The purpose of this contact programme is primarily to focus on the practical aspects of the
programme which cannot be taught effectively through correspondence viz. Practice Teaching
and Phonetics. You will find that during the contact programme a major part of the time is

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devoted to these. For Practice Teaching you will be required to plan lessons and teach them to
a group of students at the +2/undergraduate level. Details regarding Practice Teaching will be
sent to you along with the letter informing you about the contact programme.

In Phonetics and Spoken English tutorials you will be given practical training in the recognition
and production of speech sounds and intonation patterns. You will also be made familiar with
problems faced by Indian speakers of English.

During the contact programmes we also go through the blocks in all the courses to clear up
your points in each unit. This is done in both lecture and tutorial sessions. You should have
studied all the blocks before you attend the contact programme (i.e., revised/studied these
carefully between March and June)

Please bring all your blocks and your folder of corrected assignments with you when you come
for the contact programme, in order that the face-to-face interaction may prove more effective
and purposeful. If you have a copy of the Longman's Dictionary of Contemporary English, the
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, or the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's
Dictionary please remember to bring it with you. You will need these for pronunciation practice
and for preparing teaching materials in the Materials examination. There is also an exclusive
dictionary dealing with pronunciation that could be of great help to you – the Cambridge
English Pronouncing Dictionary (currently in its 18th Edition).

We have tried to give you an overall idea of your programme and we hope you now have some
idea of how it is conducted. We hope that you will keep in touch with us. We keep a record of
your progress, and you will be hearing from us from time to time. Please file all circulars and
letters that we send you and keep this booklet handy.

Please do write to us if you have any difficulties or problems during the programme, or if you
have any questions about the information given in this handbook.

If there is any change of address/ e-mail id/ phone number, please let us know
immediately. We may communicate important information/ instructions by e-mail/ phone.
Address all your letters to:
The Dean
School of Distance Education
The English and Foreign Languages University
Near Tarnaka
Hyderabad - 500 007

Address all your emails to:

< eflu.sde@gmail.com>
Do quote your complete Roll Number in all your correspondence (e.g. 20750 or 20001).

If you happen to be in Hyderabad at any time, do come and see us at the School of
Distance Education. Saturdays and Sundays are holidays for us. But during contact
programmes we work on Saturdays.

Good wishes for success in the programme.

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H. Checklist for sending in an Assignment

(Use it every time you send an assignment.)

Before despatching an answer script, check that you have done the following:

1. attached a cover sheet to each assignment answer.

2. written your correct and complete roll number, name and address on the cover
page for each assignment.
3. written the name of the course and assignment number on the cover page.
4. written each assignment for each course on separate sheets, and pinned each
assignment separately.
5. answered all the questions in each assignment.
6. indicated the number of pages the assignment consists of.
7. made sure that the assignment is complete in all respects.
8. kept a copy of your answer script in your folder.

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I. CHARTING YOUR PROGRESS

Courses Assignment No. Sent on Received on Grade Awarded

Phonetics 1.

2.

Linguistics 1.

2.

Grammar 1.

2.

Literature 1.

2.

Methods 1.

2.

Materials 1.

2.

Practice 1.
Teaching
2.

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