The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) is a central university for English and foreign languages located in

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

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. It is the only such university dedicated to languages in

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The university offers the study of English and foreign languages like

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, Turkish in the areas of Teacher Education, Literature, Linguistics, Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies.

History

EFLU, Hyderabad was founded in 1958 as the Central Institute of English by

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a prin ...

, India's first Prime Minister. The Central Institute of English, Hyderabad had started functioning with effect from 17 November 1958. It was renamed the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) in 1972 with the addition of three major foreign languages – German, Russian and French. The Educational Media Research Center (EMRC) was established at CIEFL in 1984. In 2006, CIEFL received central university status and was renamed to English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), by an act of the Parliament.

Campus

EFLU Hyderabad campus

This is the main campus, situated in the heart of

, the capital of

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. This is the oldest of the campuses of the university. The campus has 7 schools with 26 departments. Apart from graduate, postgraduate, and research programmes, EFLU also offers postgraduate diplomas, and distance and part-time mode courses. The

EFLU Hyderabad heritage well The EFLU Hyderabad well (also known as Maha Laqa Chanda Bai's well) is a cultural heritage of English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) in Hyderabad, Telangana in India. It was built during the Asaf Jahi period and is around 200 years old ...

is situated in the Hyderabad campus.

Hostels

The campus houses five hostels two for men and three for women. * Basheer Men's Hostel * Tagore International Men's Hostel * Mahlaqa Bai Chanda Women's Hostel * Akka Mahadevi Women's Hostel * Amrita Pritam International Women's Hostel

Regional campuses

The University has one main campus – at Hyderabad; and two regional centres – at Shillong (1973) and Lucknow (1979). They have their own libraries and hostel facilities.

EFLU Shillong campus

The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)

Shillong Shillong (, ) is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a Indian state, state in northeastern India. It is the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district. Shillong is the list of most populous cities in India, 330th most populous city ...

Campus was established in Shillong in 1973 as the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL) North-East Campus, one year after Meghalaya achieved statehood. The aim of establishing this campus was to cater to the linguistic and research needs of the region as well as to provide quality training for teachers. Here is a list of courses offered in the campus * BA English/Mass Communication and Journalism * MA in English/Linguistics /Mass Communication and Journalism/English Literature, * M.Phil and PhD courses in English Literature and English Language Education, along with Linguistics. * Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses in French, German, Spanish and Russian languages.

EFLU Lucknow campus

Situated on the banks of Gomti, the Lucknow campus is housed in the Moti Mahal Campus, RanaPratap Marg,

Lucknow Lucknow () is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and the largest city of the List of state and union territory capitals in India, Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the epon ...

. The EFL University Campus at Lucknow was started in 1979 to provide training to university/college teachers of English in northern India, but it slowly emerged as a full-fledged Centre offering PG Diploma in the Teaching of English, degree and research programmes. The campus has been actively engaged in conducting refresher courses for university and college teachers, proficiency courses for a wide spectrum of learners and contact programmes for the participants of Postgraduate Certificate course in the Teaching of English. The campus also offers a Postgraduate Diploma in Communication. All programmes run by the Campus are face-to-face and are not offered through the distance mode. The campus has its own library and hostel.

Academics

Dedicated to the study of English and foreign languages, the university was set up to conduct advanced research and training in English and foreign languages, in areas of Teacher Education, Literature, Linguistics, Interdisciplinary and Cultural Studies.

Official journal

The EFLU publishes ''Contextures: A Journal of Literature and Culture'' bi-annually. It aims to contribute to the debates over literary and cultural practices from heterogeneous perspectives by bringing together several departments of literature.

Notable people associated with EFLU

Arabic

English

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German

Persian

Russian

Spanish

References

External links

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