Welcome to the English Language Teaching Unit(ELTU)
The English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (FVMAS) is part of the Veterinary Medical Education Unit (VMEU) of the FVMAS. It was established in FVMAS in 1987 with the objective of enriching the students’ knowledge of English.
The ELTU collaborates with the students and Faculty members in order to provide courses based on Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Academic Literacy (AL). This is a very specific approach to teaching English where English is taught via the use of subject matter taught in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science.
The ELTU follows a student-centred approach when teaching and strives hard to incorporate modern pedagogical practices related to English language learning in delivering the courses.
The Unit also conducts an Intensive course in English annually, as a part of the student orientation program. Likewise, the Unit instructs and prepares students for competitive international English examinations.
The ELTU encourages the students to take part in learning activities which include presentations, reading sessions, and public speaking events and participating in Drama in order to improve their language, communication, critical thinking, and leadership skills through which they can gain self-confidence and soft skills.
As Suresh Canagaraja states “product-oriented, philological approach to English simply to claim a working knowledge of English in order to qualify for bureaucratic jobs, while distancing themselves from the texts and values that came with the language while overlooking the politics associated with the language. They separated the abstract sign system from the ideological constructs that came with it”. The exercise of the ELTU at FVMAS is to rid students of these misconceptions and engage at an ideological level with them which hopefully will provide access to different domains and paradigms.