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MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

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    MA 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time

Masters Degree Description

Study MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at one of the world’s best known centres in TESOL and Applied Linguistics.

This course is suitable for graduates already working or just starting a career in the field of English as a second/foreign language and who wish to develop and deepen specialist knowledge and skills in TESOL and related linguistic areas.

It connects theory with practice to build relevant teaching expertise in key TESOL areas, and provides up-to-date, thorough and critical knowledge of the field taught by top researchers and teachers.

Entry Requirements

Normally a good undergraduate honours degree (2:1 or above), or equivalent from a university outside the UK. Those with other qualifications and relevant work experience may also be considered. For MA TESOL, you normally need a minimum of one year’s relevant work experience, but each application is assessed on a case-by-case basis.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

Graduates from this course enter the following careers worldwide: teacher training; university research, teaching and leadership; testing and assessment; directing, managing and teaching roles within language teaching institutions worldwide including state (governmental) and private sector; translation and interpreting, publishing in the language industry.

Module Details

Highlighted modules:

  • Second language learning principles
  • Language curriculum design
  • Teaching English to young learners
  • Language testing principles
  • Issues in bilingualism

Compulsory modules:

  • Second language learning principles
  • Foundations of language study
  • Research design methods
  • Academic practices in applied linguistics

Dissertation track:

Language curriculum design

Dissertation

Portfolio track:

  • Language teaching portfolio
  • Issues in language sills teaching

Optional modules:

  • Approaches to discourse analysis
  • Corpus-based approaches to language description
  • The teaching and learning of vocabulary
  • English in the world
  • Language testing principles
  • Information technology for language teaching
  • Issues in bilingualism
  • Language and migration

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