MEd in English Language Teaching

There has been an immense growth in the field of education in Nepal in the last five decades. However, the quantitative growth, realized in the form of number of the institutions and the areas of disciplines, has not been able to bring about qualitative development. This is a major case in the field of teacher development and school education. In the quest of education, the public as well as the private sector have made huge investments in school education with not much satisfying results.

In the areas of English language attainment of the school students, one major cause for this situation is the lack of quality teacher education and appropriate ELT materials due to the lack of skilled and informed teacher educators and materials developers.

The demand of quality ELT teachers, teacher trainers and materials writers has indicated the need to train the manpower in the country.

Kathmandu University School of Education launched MEd in ELT in 2004 to prepare competent EFL teachers, teacher educators and ELT material developers to help improve ELT education in the country. Pursuing this study, students will be able to follow the latest principles and methodology of teaching, undertake small scale research to improve their own pedagogical skills, and deliver short term teacher professional development packages, develop appropriate curricula, textbooks, modules and projected and non-projected materials, and educate pre-service and in-service teachers for effective teaching.

The programme is intended to produce postgraduates who are able to -

1. Follow latest principles and teaching methodology in ELT.
2. Undertake small-scale need oriented research in the field of ELT.
3. Design and deliver teacher training courses and activities for ELT teachers required for the changing situation.
4. Train pre-service trainees and in-service teachers for effective teaching of EFL.
5. Develop ELT materials required for the changing situation.