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MSc Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

This programme is aimed at professionals in English language education at all levels (from kindergarten to university) and including teachers both from the UK and overseas. It aims to enable them to develop as researchers and as reflective practitioners, and to develop their intellectual, practical and transferable skills, by extending and deepening  their professional knowledge in four specific areas:

1. The programme emphasises research skills both as a means to facilitating access to knowledge construction (for example in doctoral study, or as a researcher), and improving professional practice through enhanced understanding of learning and classroom processes and capacity to participate in and lead Action Research projects
2. The programme develops understanding and skills in English language description and analysis, addressing both traditional sentence-level approaches, more recent discourse-based perspectives, and emerging accounts based on corpora and other electronically constructed accounts
3. The programme develops understanding of a range of perspectives on language learning, in particular Second Language Acquisition, language socialisation, and socio-cultural perspectives. It introduces the epistemological traditions underpinning these approaches, and develops awareness of data collection and analysis procedures relevant to these traditions
4. The programme develops understanding of pedagogy and curriculum in TESOL. The professional focus here involves a reflective, analytic use of professional experience, related to a future-oriented, innovative practice resourced by teacher research, a range of ICT options, and a quality-informed view of the network of relationships which characterise TESOL practice.