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MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Different course options

Full time | Mile End | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Tesol (Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages)

Course Summary

This programme is aimed at teachers who want to gain a deeper understanding of the theories and practice that govern English language teaching. If you want to teach in higher education or private schools the programme also provides an opportunity to gain a professional qualification (for an extra cost), such as a CELTA.

The optional module on multimedia provides you with technology-enhanced teaching experience.

  • Observe and reflect on practical language teaching and learning
  • Gain practical teaching experience
  • Study in the UKs top-ranked linguistics department (RAE 2008, RAE 2014)
  • Flexible course structure: you can opt for a research or CELTA pathway
  • Develop your expertise in specialist areas such as digital materials development to enhance your career options
  • Perfect for recent graduates and TESOL teachers who don't have a linguistics background

Your first two core modules, Approaches & Methods in English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, will give you an excellent grounding in the basic methods and theories of language teaching and language learning. The third core module, Research Methods in Language Teaching, will introduce you to data collection and data analysis methods to enable you to succeed in your dissertation project.

From these solid foundations, you can then specialise in your chosen area. Elective modules cover subjects such as curriculum design and materials evaluation, educational technologies and software, the teaching of English in professional and academic contexts, language assessment, discourse analysis, or, if you're a native English speaker in particular, the fundamentals of English language, grammar and vocabulary.

Youll become an accomplished language teacher. You'll gain valuable insights into the process of language teaching and learning by becoming a language learner: as part of the programme, youll study a foreign language for two semesters.

We will give you ample opportunities to observe English language teaching in classroom situations and reflect on good practice. Youll also have opportunities to apply your theories.

All your lecturers in this programme are also practitioner teachers so you'll benefit from the most up-to-date expertise in English language teaching.

Career paths

We want your MA programme to be a career investment: not only does this programme enable you to become a specialised language teacher, it also opens the door to further study in academia and to careers in language-related fields such as quality control, assessment, syllabus development and planning or educational technology.

Modules

Approaches and Methods in English Language Teaching is a compulsory module on the MA in Applied Linguistics for English Language Teaching. Students are presented with a comprehensive overview of the main approaches and methods in language teaching, and have the opportunity to put these into practice: each week there is a lecture/interactive seminar to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of language teaching, followed by a practical session in which students will try out the different approaches in a peer/micro-teaching learning environment. Students will receive practical and formative feedback on their teaching sessions from both teachers and peers. The areas to be covered include: common assumptions of language teaching; the natural, oral and audio-lingual approaches; situational language teaching; social and cognitive construction; communicative language teaching; content-based Instruction; and task-based teaching.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£12,250

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£25,500

Entry requirements

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level

University information

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is an internationally regarded public research institution based in London. It has a long history, dating back over 230 years, and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities. Queen Mary has five campuses in the city of London and an international network of satellite campuses in China, Malta, Paris and Singapore. There is a population of around 16,000 students at the London campuses and...more