Applied Linguistics and TESOL MA

The MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is aimed at graduate teachers and other English Language Teaching professionals with at least a year's English language teaching experience who wish to further their academic and professional development.

This degree will provide you with:

• A critical understanding of key issues and debates in many areas of Applied Linguistics and of how these relate to English Language Teaching.
• A body of knowledge that will enhance your ability to undertake language teaching at a range of levels in different cultural and institutional contexts.
• The ability to reflect, analyse and critically evaluate language teaching and learning concepts and theories, and to understand and examine the assumptions underlying different classroom practices.
• The skills to undertake effective practitioner research in your specific area of interest.

You will also benefit from our active involvement in research in different areas of Applied Linguistics and TESOL.

If you take the two ‘Language Testing and Assessment’ modules and choose a language testing topic for your Dissertation, you will be awarded an MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL with Language Testing