HOD's Welcome Address
Welcome to the Department of English Education, College of Languages and Communication Arts Education, Lagos State University of Education, Oto Ijanikin, Epe Campus. It is our utmost aim to help students attain an excellent level of the English language proficiency by developing in them academic and communication skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing; exposing them to how the English Language is patterned in a systematic way at four principal levels—sounds (i.e. phonetics and phonology, words(i.e. morphology), sentences(i.e. syntax) and meaning(i.e. semantics), and the interplay of these levels in the actual language use (i.e. discourse analysis and pragmatics), and other aspects of the English Language description. Our programmes are also designed to develop students’ creative and critical thinking, analytical abilities, and effective communication through the literature courses floated.
The Department is committed to training competent, resourceful and result-oriented teachers/nation builders through quality pedagogical courses students are taken through. We strongly believe that with this learning, our students will go beyond the boundaries, and develop an excellent level of language and academic skills that will help them in their chosen careers. The Department is doing its best to support students in achieving their goals of choosing English as a course of study and ultimately, in making their dreams come to limelight. It should be noted that one of the goals of the University is raising world class teachers and other professionals who will become advisers to students. Thus, it is very important that high quality human resources, and physical facilities in the Department and the University, such as the University and Departmental libraries, resource room, language laboratory, etc., are made good use of by our students and prospective students: as all these will provide inestimable opportunities to expand their knowledge and ultimately develop their intellectual capacity.
I wish you all, successful academic years in the Department and the University. I strongly believe that your learning challenges will bring forth the champions in you.
BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of English Education emanated from the Departments of English of the erstwhile Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Noforija-Epe, Lagos State. It is an integral part of the College of Languages and Communication Arts Education of the University to run B.A. and B.A. Ed programmes among other programmes in the College. It is our utmost aim to help students attain an excellent level of the English language proficiency. The programmes are also designed to develop students’ creative and critical thinking, analytical abilities, and effective communication through the literature courses offered.
The Department is equipped with competent and high-level human and material resources to enhance effective teaching and research. The academic staff are committed to imparting desirable knowledge into students which can help them attain their educational goals. There are also in the Department the state-of-the-art facilities that can aid learning such as language laboratory, library, and resource room, among others. It is hoped that the students will be dedicated, hardworking and make use of the opportunities available to them.