Location
St Luke’s Campus, Exeter
The MEd in TESOL is aimed at qualified teachers and others who work in TESOL at either primary, secondary or tertiary levels in different educational contexts around the world. It is also possible to obtain a postgraduate diploma in TESOL (120 credits) or a postgraduate certificate (60 credits).
During the programme you will develop your understanding of theoretical issues in language teaching and the implications of these for classroom practice. This means you will be in a good position to help initiate and support changes on return to your workplace. It will also provide you with the necessary qualification to enable you to move into new areas within TESOL such as teacher education, English for special purposes, materials development and the teaching of English to young learners. The programme also includes an introduction to educational research and provides an understanding of how to conduct research in the field of TESOL with the opportunity to specialise in optional modules of your choice.
The programme offers you the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in UK primary or secondary schools by undertaking extended visits as an informal volunteer teaching assistant to support pupils whose first languages is not English .
The programme will:
- develop and extend your understanding of key aspects of linguistics and learning theory and their influence on the teaching of English to speakers of other languages;
- enable you to make informed professional decisions regarding language teaching in the workplace and justify these to others;
- enable you to select, adapt and design materials and activities for language teaching appropriate to your own teaching context;
- enable you to investigate and research aspects of TESOL in ways that will support continuing development and practice as a foreign language teaching professional.
