MEd in English Language Teaching - One Year

M Ed in ELT (One Year) program is  a newly launched program of Kathmandu University, School of Education. The program is structured to complete in one year but offers flexibility. Students are, however, required to complete all the requirements of the program within two years.

Programme Objective: 

M Ed in ELT (One Year) program promotes innovations in pedagogical approaches prioritizing the combination of local and global practices in language teaching and learning. This program envisages integrating teaching and learning as lifelong learning based on the holistic, context-based and multi-methods approach to educational practice and research. The program will focus on preparing teachers committed towards basic and secondary levels of school education in Nepal. On the completion of the one-year program, the graduates will:

• develop skills for English language teaching following the recent trends of theories and practices; independently undertake small-scale need oriented research to address the issues of ELT;
• develop ELT materials as per the needs;.
• design and deliver teacher training courses and activities for ELT practitioners as required in the changing situations;
• train pre-service trainees and in-service teachers for effective teaching of ELT;

Graduate Attributes

Upon the completion of the course, the program expects the graduates to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Intellectually rigorous in understanding the importance of languages.
• Lifelong learner to understand the issues of language learning and teaching;
• Respectful to linguistic rights of minority communities;
• Compassionate and ethical to the linguistic differences of learners;
• Responsible and committed to preserving the local linguistic ecology;
• Critical and creative language educator