Teaching

Listening and Writing Skills I

[Level: undergraduate, Course Design: Pre-given] Monsoon semester 2024, Language Learning Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Topics Teaching Material
Module 1: Common grammatical errors handout
Module 2: Noun phrases handout
Module 3: Vocabulary building strategies I handout
Module 4: Prepositions handout
Module 5: Articles handout
Module 6: Tense and Aspect handout
Module 7: Vocabulary building strategies II handout


Listening and Writing Skills II

[Level: undergraduate, Course Design: Pre-given] Winter semester 2024, Language Learning Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Topics Teaching Material
Module 1: Introduction — Learning languages handout
Module 2: Personal identity handout
Module 3: Linguistic Ambiguity handout
Module 4: Indian whispers and free-writing handout
Module 5: Recipes, boardgames & Experiments (Part I) handout
Module 6: Recipes, boardgames & Experiments (Part II) handout
Module 7: “Who we are” and Claudia Goldin on Freakonomics Radio handout
Module 8: Identifying cohesion and coherence in writing - I handout
Module 9: Identifying cohesion and coherence in writing - II handout
Module 10 (Type 1): Critical reading of Fiction (with “Lamb to the slaughter”) handout
Module 10 (Type 2): Critical reading of Non-Fiction (with “What is math?”) handout
Module 11: Profiling a group contesting elections handout


Morphology & Syntax

[Level: Masters, Course Design: Pre-given] (Co-taught with Rahul Mhaiskar)
Monsoon semester 2023, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

Modules Teaching Material
Module 1: Introduction to Syntax slides
Module 2: Preliminaries slides from Andrew Carnie’s 2006 textbook
Module 3: Grammatical classes slides
Module 4 : Constructions & Constituents I slides from Andrew Carnie’s 2006 textbook
Module 5 : Constructions & Constituents II slides
Module 6 : The morphology and syntax interface slides


Phonology

[Level: Masters, Course Design: Pre-given] (Co-taught with Rahul Mhaiskar and Pramod K. Pandey)
Winter semester 2022, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

Modules Teaching Material
Module 2: Distinctive Feature Theory slides
Module 3: Generative Phonology: Linear Model slides
Module 4: Constraints on Phonological Rules slides
Module 5: Post-SPE Linear Models slides


Introduction to Linguistics

[Level: Undergraduate] (Course designed and co-taught with Shivani Banerjee and Aseema Karandikar)
Monsoon semester 2020, Jawaharlal Nehru University

You can find the syllabus here.

Topics Teaching Material
Module 1: Language – The most human thing about us slides
Module 4: Syntax (Parts I, II and III) slides
Module 5: Language Acquisition slides
Module 7: Language and the Human Brain slides


Growing Language: A workshop on language acquisition research from a generative perspective

[Level: Masters and PhD] (Co-taught with Benu Pareek)
Winter semester 2020, Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The workshop handout is here.