HSA English Provisional Answer key 2022

In the list of Kerala PSC exams, HSA English was the most recent exam which was scheduled on 15th June 2022 and was attended by thousands of candidates. The term HSA means High School Assistant and the candidates who crack this exam will be getting a great opportunity to teach in the high school sectors in Government Schools across Kerala.

HSA Number of Applicants

According to HSA notification reports in the year 2012, the number of applicants was higher. But this time, the candidates are fortunate because there was a diminution in the number of applicants for HSA exam 2022.

Look at the table given below:

HSA English Provisional Answer Key 2022

Kerala PSC HSA subjects

English

Hindi

Malayalam

Tamil

Kannada

Sanskrit

Arabic

Urdu

Mathematics

Social Science

Natural Science

Physical Science

Syllabus

HSA English Syllabus is vast but if we follow a smart-work strategy then this syllabus will not be much tougher as you think. Following is the detailed syllabus of HSA English exam. HSA English online coaching is mandatory for a teaching aspirant if he/she is dreaming to achieve the target in a lesser time span.

PART A

Module I: Renaissance and freedom movement

Module II: General Knowledge and current affairs

Module III: Methodology of teaching the subject

♦ History/conceptual development. Need and Significance, Meaning Nature and Scope of the

Subject.

♦ Correlation with other subjects and life situations.

♦ Aims, Objectives, and Values of Teaching - Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - Old and

revised

♦ Pedagogic analysis- Need, Significance and Principles.

♦ Planning of instruction at Secondary level- Need and importance. Psychological bases of

Teaching the subject - Implications of Piaget, Bruner, Gagne, Vygotsky, Ausubel and

Gardener - Individual difference, Motivation, Maxims of teaching.

♦ Methods and Strategies of teaching the subject- Models of Teaching, Techniques of

individualising instruction.

♦ Curriculum - Definition, Principles, Modern trends and organizational approaches,

Curriculum reforms - NCF/KCF.

♦ Instructional resources- Laboratory, Library, Club, Museum- Visual and Audio-Visual aids -Community based resources - e-resources - Text book, Work book and Hand book.

♦ Assessment; Evaluation- Concepts, Purpose, Types, Principles,

Modern techniques - CCE and Grading- Tools and techniques -

Qualities of a good test - Types of test items- Evaluation of projects,

Seminars and Assignments - Achievement test, Diagnostic test –

Construction, Characteristics, interpretation and remediation.

♦ Teacher - Qualities and Competencies - different roles - Personal

Qualities - Essential teaching skills - Microteaching - Action research.

PART B

Module 1. Poetry

Shakespeare Sonnet 121

Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Milton On His Blindness

Gray Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard

Wordsworth Tintern Abbey

Shelley To a Skylark

Keats Ode On a Grecian Urn

Tennyson Ulysses

Browning My Last Duchess

Arnold Dover Beach

W.B. Yeats A Prayer for My Daughter

Sylvia Plath Daddy

Tagore Where the Mind Is Without Fear

Nissim Ezekiel Night of The Scorpion

Kamala Das An Introduction

A.K. Ramanujan Obituary

Robert Frost Home Burial

Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Wole Soyinka A Telephone Conversation

Meena Alexander House of a Thousand Doors

Margaret Atwood This Is a Photograph of Me

David Diop Africa

Jack Davis Aboriginal Australia

Module 2. Drama

Shakespeare Macbeth

Sheridan School For Scandal

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Ernest

Ibsen A Doll's House

Shaw Pygmalion

J.M. Synge Riders to The Sea

Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Girish Karnad Nagamandala

Module 3: Prose and Fiction

Francis Bacon Of Studies

Steele The Trumpet Club

A.G. Gardiner On the Rule of The Road

E.M. Forster on Tolerance

Bertrand Russel Functions of a Teacher

Radhakrishnan Humanities vs Science

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights

George Orwell Animal Farm

Hemingway The Old Man and The Sea

Shashi Deshpande Roots and Shadows

Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things

Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

Module 4: Literary Criticism/ Terms

1.Rasa

2.Dhwani

3.Aristotle: Poetics

4.Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

5.Coleridege: Biographia Literaria 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 edition of M.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

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