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Home/EU: £5450 Part-Time: £2725
International: £12300 Part-Time: £6150 - Financial support
- Duration: One year full-time or two years part-time.
- Study Method: Part-time Distance, Full-time, Part-time
- Department: Dept of Culture, Communication and Media
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TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages) MA
This masters degree will:
- enhance your understanding of key concepts and ideas dealt with in the professional and academic literature relevant to TESOL
- give you insight into a wider range of perspectives on the theory, policy and practice of TESOL
- analyse, synthesise and evaluate primary and secondary sources
- help you to plan and implement small-scale research projects
- develop your aptitude for sustained and independent argument
- increase your capacity for critical self-reflection.
Features
This masters degree provides the opportunity to:
- discuss and debate issues related to teaching English as a foreign or second language
- explore the interface between theory and practice
- discuss your ongoing work in individual tutorials, and receive detailed feedback on drafts of assessed work
- reflect on your own professional work in the light of current theory and research in TESOL
- envisage new possibilities for action in the future.
Who is this programme for?
Practising teachers of English as a second or foreign language (ESL, EFL, ESOL) throughout the world. We accept teachers of other languages on the understanding that most of the examples used during the programme will be drawn from English language teaching.
Entry requirements
Normally, a good first degree in a relevant field of study, a teaching qualification and appropriate teaching experience. Candidates with less teaching experience should have an outstanding academic record and should demonstrate insight into language learning and teaching.
If you have successfully completed the Cambridge ESOL Diploma in English Language Teaching (DELTA) within the past five years, you are eligible for exemption from one 30-credit optional module.
How are you assessed?
By coursework assignments of up to 5,000 words and a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report.
Attendance
Face-to-face daytime and/or evening sessions.
Core modules
Recommended modules
- Discourse, Society and Culture
- English for Academic Purposes
- English In Diverse World Contexts
- Issues and Options in Language Teacher Development
- Materials Development For Language Teaching
- Technology and Language Teaching and Learning
- The Multilingual Classroom
- The Second Language Learning Experience