The Department of English at Kateel Ashok Pai Memorial College is dedicated to nurturing language proficiency, literary appreciation, and critical thinking among students. The department aims to help learners develop strong communication skills, creativity, and cultural awareness through the study of English language and literature. English is taught as both a language and an optional subject at the undergraduate level. The curriculum is designed to strengthen students' skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, while providing exposure to a wide range of literary genres from British, Indian, and American literature to postcolonial and contemporary writings.

The department emphasizes holistic learning through seminars, workshops, literary discussions, debates, and drama performances. It also encourages students to engage in creative writing, critical analysis, and language-based projects, preparing them for diverse career paths such as teaching, journalism, creative writing, content development, translation, and civil services. The Literary club of the Department of English aims to hone the literary and linguistic skills of the students under its banner,the club has various activities such as special lectures, workshops, seminars, weekly magazine Inkspire , film screening,Book reviews and so on The club also focuses on the aesthetic and creative growth of the students and it also helps students reading, writing and language skills through these literary activities

English language labs are designed to focus on building communication skills efficiently. It encourage students to engage with language in a way that fosters better understanding and fluency. Language labs software is crafted to make acquiring language skills easy and interactive focusing on practical approaches rather than theoretical concepts. English labs follow the LSRW methodology which provides a structured way to develop essential language skills. Students may use language activities and videos to enhance their knowledge of the English language, generally it includes audio- visual help like laptops and headphones. The effective method to improve a language is to speak it frequently and language labs provide just that. It offers a wide range of classes and activities to help students at all levels to improve their English language skills.