Description
The English Language Centre's MA in Applied Linguistics for TESOL course offers excellent opportunities for experienced language teachers to develop careers in English language teaching.
The course is designed for anyone with an interest in the wider aspects of teaching English as a foreign language, combining innovative classroom practices with an understanding of issues such as language structure and research methodology.
Course Structure
The course offers a core of syllabus design and assessment, with greater depth provided through further required modules focusing on both theoretical and practical aspects of the English language and on classroom practice. You will then have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge base by taking three or four further optional modules covering a wide range of relevant areas. The MA is completed by a 15,000-word dissertation.
Core Modules
- Language Teaching Methodology
- Second Language Development: Perspectives for Teaching
- Dissertation: Includes Research Methods programme
- Language for Teaching
- Advanced Teaching Practice: The Reflective Practitioner.
Optional Modules
Previous optional modules have included:
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Teaching English for Academic Purposes
- Teacher Training, Development and Education
- World Englishes
- English for Specific Purposes
- ELT Materials Development and Evaluation
- Discourse, Texts and TESOL
- English Language Teaching Management
- Teaching Young Learners
- Pragmatics and the Language Classroom.
You can also choose to study an optional module offered to students across the University as one of your four options:
MA Streams
You can choose to further focus your Masters qualification through our programme streams. To qualify, you must choose the optional module and complete your dissertation in the same topic area.
Course Learning and Teaching
ELC MA courses are delivered via lectures, seminars, practical sessions and micro-teaching sessions, giving students a solid grounding in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the field. In many cases, contact hours will be a mixture of these approaches (rather than, say, a session consisting solely of a two-hour lecture). The balance will depend on the particular module, with some more suited to a lecture/seminar approach, others being of a more practical nature.
The focus throughout the courses is on independent learning and student engagement, with students expected to participate in presentations, micro-teaching and the like. The average weekly number of contact hours over the first two terms is 12, with students filling the remaining time with reading, class preparation and assignments.
In addition, starting in the first term, students attend a series of dissertation sessions (typically 2 hours per fortnight) culminating in a poster conference in term 3. Students are assigned a dissertation supervisor, and can expect 3 or 4 meetings during term 3 and the summer.
Students each have an academic tutor, with whom they will meet on average once a term, and all staff have office hours.
English Language requirements
Please check requirements for your subject and level of study.
Durham Centre for Academic Development
Durham Centre for Academic Development provides high-quality English language teaching and language teacher training and development expertise. It caters for students at all levels: pre-university entry,
undergraduate and postgraduate. The Centre’s strong provision and expertise in English language teaching, teacher education and academic skills development plays a central role in supporting teaching and learning and enhancing the experience of both UK/EU and international students at Durham. With a large variety of tailor-made programmes to suit the needs of students at all levels, English language teaching, academic development and teacher education courses have a significant role in the University.
How to apply
http://www.durham.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply
Visit the
MA Applied Linguistics for TESOL
page on the Durham University website for more details!
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