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 compulsory 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.  English Language Teaching Methodology (6 credits)
2.  Grammar and Pedagogy (6 credits)
3.  Second Language Acquisition (6 credits)
4.  Socio-linguistics and English Language Education (6 credits)
5.  Teaching Spoken Communication (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.  Analysis of Spoken and Written Discourse
3.  Teaching Reading in English as an Additional Language
4.  Teaching Writing in a Second Language
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 and Learning Listening in the English Language Classroom
13. Teaching Multimodality

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