MA Education (Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages)

You should have a good honours degree (at least a 2.2) and at least one-year full-time experience of teaching English as a foreign or second language in any context. Applicants with a Cambridge University Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA) and sufficient English teaching experience will also be considered. In exceptional cases, applicants who are able to demonstrate suitable significant experience or further study may be considered for the course, and may be asked to attend an informal interview to assess their suitability.

For international students, IELTS 6.5 overall bands with a minimum of 6.0 in each of the four categories is required.

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Career opportunities are numerous, from progressing in your current role to moving to a more senior role within the TESOL field.

Approaches in English Language Teaching

You examine the background to and contemporary issues in teaching, learning and assessment approaches in ELT in a range of contexts. You also develop your critiquing, evaluating and debating skills to be able to effectively analyse the efficacy of approaches, so that you can design and adapt teaching plans to suit specific learners and ELT contexts.

Combining Professional and Academic Practice

You study with other students from a range of educational backgrounds, and you can consolidate your professional development and academic knowledge. You focus on an educational issue that is relevant to you, negotiated with your tutor. You apply learning from contemporary academic theory and research, reflecting on how the issue may enhance practice. Assessment is a 4,500-word critical commentary supported by a portfolio of evidence focused on an aspect of professional educational activity. This assessment is 100% of your final mark.

Dissertation

You work closely with an allocated supervisor, who is matched to you based on the topic area of your Dissertation, to conduct research into an area appropriate to your course route. You review relevant literature and select appropriate research methodology.

As part of the MA in Education (TESOL) route, the topics explored within the Using the Literature to Inform Educational Research and the Dissertation modules are chosen by you, but they must be around current debates and issues in TESOL.

Educational Research: Practice and Planning

You gain an in-depth understanding of research methods in education, and the knowledge and skills required to develop an independent research study into an area of education which you conduct for your dissertation. The selection of research area and the method of enquiry will be decided in consultation with the module tutors.

Using the Literature to Inform Educational Research