Structure
Our TESOL Masters programme brings together students from a diverse range of cultural, academic, linguistic and professional backgrounds.
Study options
Note: All taught courses worth 20 credits require 200 hours' work. Of this normally about 24 hours are lectures and workshops, and the rest is independent study and assignment writing.
Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL
This will be awarded to students who successfully complete 60 credits of compulsory courses, and who do not complete other courses.
The Postgraduate Diploma in TESOL
This will be awarded to students who successfully complete all compulsory courses and two option courses (total 120 credits), and who do not proceed to the MSc.
The MSc TESOL
This will be awarded to those who successfully complete all compulsory courses, two option courses and a dissertation (total 180 credits).
Courses
Diploma level courses
* Option courses
The following are the option courses (20 credits each). Students choose two options which run in Semester 2:
| Evaluation and Design of TESOL Materials | |
| Investigating Individual Learner Differences | |
| Language Awareness for Second Language Teachers | |
| Language and Culture Pedagogy | |
| Language Testing | |
| Online Language Learning | |
| Second Language Teacher Education | |
| Teaching Text Across Borders | |
| Theory and Practice of Second Language Learning |
Note: Option course availability may vary subject to staffing arrangements and student numbers.
Masters level courses
Note that the 10 credits proposal is normally taken in Semester 2 prior to the progression decision but counts as part of the MSc credits rather than the taught component (120 credits).
Part-time mode
This is flexible and depends on your needs. Email the TESOL Programme Director to discuss a structure that suits you.
| Year | Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | Language and the Learner | Option Course 1 |
| Year 2 | TESOL Methodology, Research Methods Part 1 | Option Course 2, Research Methods Part 2 |
| Year 3 | Second Language Teaching Curriculum | Research Methods Part 3, Dissertation |
| Year 4 | Dissertation | Dissertation |
Course descriptors / Dissertation details
Find out more about each courses and the dissertation on the following page where full course decriptors can be accessed.
This article was published on Nov 15, 2012