Bachelor of Arts Honours in TESL

In 2017 the ELTU was upgraded to a fully-fledged academic department. This can be considered a milestone because the ELTU of the University of Kelaniya is the first to be conferred departmental status in the country. In addition, the DELT of the University of Kelaniya is the first English teaching unit to offer a degree programme. The Department of English Language Teaching (DELT) was founded as a sub-unit of the Department of English in 1981 known as the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU). The DELT functions as part of the Faculty of Humanities. Initially it did not have a physical space of its own. In 1991, it was established as an independent unit and was given its own room in a building that was located in the present day Faculty of Science. The ELTU was shifted to a building that belonged to the Faculty of Humanities in 1992.