The department of English Language Studies started functioning as a separate branch of the department of English and comparative Literature in the year 1989.

From 1999 onwards the department follows the CBCS pattern. Under this scheme the department offers 12 core papers with 5 credits to 9 papers and 4 credits to 3 papers and 3 credits to 1 paper. It also offers 3 Elective papers with 4 credits each.

Many of the meritorious past students have got jobs in varied fields such as publishing companies (Mac Milan, for example), News Paper firms, Polytechnic and Engineering colleges. Higher Secondary Schools and so on. They have wider opportunities abroad. one student has won the most prestigious Hornby Scholarship and studied in Reading University, London. Two of the students, (one in Maldives, another in Ethiopia) are working as teachers abroad.

For teaching purposes the electronic equipments such as the Overhead projector, Television and video record player, Two-in-one audio system and computer are used. There is a department library fulfilling the needs of the students and scholars.

The department has produced books entitled TEACHING COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH. ENGLISH PHONETICS, APPLYING SOCIO LINGUISTIC THEORIES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING and the journal titled Journal of English Language Studies Association (JELSA) for private circulation among the students, scholars, and staff of the department. At present a team of scholars and students under the guidance of the teacher are preparing a text with the title RHETORIC : MADE EASY and ELT METHODOLOGY : A SURVEY.