MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

University of Essex

This is a Masters course that can take you into employment anywhere in the world.If you are enthusiastic about teaching English to speakers of other languages, then our course offers you vocationally-relevant, research-led training of the highest quality, taught by academics known for their teaching excellence.You explore teaching methods and the description of English used in the investigation of language learning and teaching, and study additional topics according to your needs.You also gain hands-on teaching experience through our one-term Teaching Practice module.Whether you have no prior teaching experience or are already an English language teacher, this course can be adapted to suit you. If you have little or no previous teaching experience, you receive ‘hands on’ teaching practice throughout our teaching practice module, while if you already have substantial teaching experience, you can undertake specialist study through our educational leadership and management options insteadYou'll be part of our Centre for Research in Language Development throughout the Lifespan (LaDeLi), a unique research centre specialising in all aspects of language learning and development.