Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

MA(TESOL) is a full-time, one year programme.  Students will have to study a total of 12 courses (72 credits) including 6 core courses (6 credits each), a project (12 credits) and 4 elective courses (6 credits each) in one academic year of 3 semesters.

Core Courses: 

1.  Methodological Innovations in TESOL (6 credits)
2.  Grammar and Pedagogy (6 credits)
3.  Second Language Acquisition (6 credits)
4.  Sociolinguistics and TESOL (6 credits)
5.  Teaching Spoken Communication for English as a Global Language (6 credits)
6.  Methods of Research and Enquiry in TESOL (6 credits)
7.  Project by Independent Study (12 credits - to be completed in summer semester)

Elective Courses (6 credits each):
(Please note that not all elective courses are offered every year)

1.  Literature in Language Teaching and Learning
2.  Critical Discourse Studies
3.  Teaching Reading in English as an International Language
4.  Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts
5.  Technology and English Teaching and Learning
6.  Testing and Assessment in TESOL
7.  Autonomy and Language Learning
8.  Corpora for Language Learning and Teaching
9.  Intercultural Communication
10.  Vocabulary Teaching and Learning
11.  English Language Teaching: Principles into Practice
12. Teaching Listening for English as a Global Language
13. Teaching Multimodality

Please refer to the Regulations and Syllabuses for the course descriptions.