Overview
Learn the latest linguistics theories and apply them to your classroom practice. Advance your career in language teaching, or even take it international.
- Study in Cambridge, a city famous for language teaching, or by distance learning
- Boost your career prospects with new critical and analytical skills
- Take part in conferences and other high-profile research events
Our MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL will improve your theoretical understanding of language learning and help you to develop your teaching skills.
You will explore the latest theories in topics such as second language acquisition and social discourse, as well as learning different methods of analysis with which to assess to their value to your own language teaching.
You will also learn to conduct your own research, compiling and analysing qualitative and quantitative data and developing your critical-evaluative skills. These skills will be put to use on your own research project at the end of the course, as well as in your future career.
Our optional modules will also allow you to explore your own interests, with topics including course design and classroom practice, as well as 'Impacts of Migration' and 'Language, Identity and Policy', which will help prepare you for a teaching career across the world. You can also complete a part-time CELTA alongside your degree, or opt for a full-time, 4 week CELTA either straight before or straight after your MA, to maximise your opportunities as an English Language teacher.
Outside of the course, you can take part in our research seminars and conferences. Our past events have included the Identities in Language conference, the British Association for Applied Linguistics conference 2016, and the SymPol Conference on Linguistic (Im)Politeness.
Course Leaders: Alastair Douglas (Cambridge-based course); Dr Sebastian Rasinger (Distance Learning course).
careers
Our MA Applied Linguistics and TESOL will help you prepare for many language-learning and teaching-related professions, such as teaching English and other languages (in the UK and abroad), and developing courses, tests, materials or language policy.
You might also decide to continue on to a research degree, such as our PhD English Language and Linguistics or PhD English Language and Intercultural Communication.
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