MSc Language and Intercultural Communication

These entry requirements are for the 2026/27 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2027/28 academic year will be published on 1 July 2026.

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant discipline.

Applicants do not need to have language teaching experience to enter this programme. Applicants may also be considered on the basis of employment or relevant experience.

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ou will complete four compulsory courses in Semester 1 (September - December):

Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogy (20 credits)
Language Education for Intercultural Citizenship (20 credits)
Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies (20 credits)
Sources of Knowledge: Understanding and analysing research literature (10 credits)
Semester 2
You will complete one compulsory course in Semester 2 (January - April).

Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis (10 credits)
Option courses
You will complete two option courses in Semester 2.

Each option course is worth 20 credits. One of the options must be from the list of SCQF Level 11 courses below.

These courses are offered to all Moray House School of Education and Sport students on the languages Masters programmes (MSc TESOL, MSc Language Education):

Bilingual Education (20 credits)
Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching (20 credits)
Critical literacies and critical pedagogies in L1 and L2 contexts (20 credits)
Evaluation and Design of TESOL Materials (20 credits)
Global Englishes for Language Teaching (20 credits)
Intercultural Language Learner Identity (20 credits)
Investigating Individual Learner Differences (20 credits)
Language Awareness for Second Language Teachers (20 credits)
Language Testing (20 credits)
Online Language Learning (20 credits)
Second Language Teacher Education (20 credits)
Teaching Languages to Young Learners (20 credits)
Teaching Text Across Borders (20 credits)
Text, Discourse and Language Teaching (20 credits)
Theory and Practice of Second Language Learning (20 credits)