MA TESOL - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Online) at University of Birmingham

Enhance your skills and advance your career as an English language teacher with this fully online course. You'll discover the latest linguistic theories and methods for teaching English to speakers of other languages. With our MA TESOL (Online), you’ll have the freedom to study whenever and wherever it works best for you while benefitting from world-class instruction delivered by the same lecturers and faculty experts who teach on campus.

Department: English Language and Linguistics  |  Duration: 2.5 years  |  Study mode: online  |  Intake: October; December; February; April; July  |  Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The programme comprises 120 credits of taught modules and a 60-credit dissertation. Modules run every four months of the course and the final six months are for researching and writing up your dissertation. Modules include Classroom Research and Research Methods, Dissertation, Language Teaching Methodology, Pedagogic Grammar, Syllabus and Materials Design, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis.

Career pathways

Our online TESOL course opens doors to a wide range of careers in English language teaching and education worldwide. By studying an online postgraduate degree in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at Birmingham, you’ll develop transferable skills suited to a range of career paths.

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