Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MA/PGDip/ PGCert 1 year full-time
Ideal if you'd like to join the TESOL profession but have little or no prior teaching experience. You’ll develop your professional skills by observing and reflecting on language learning and gain practical teaching experience with beginner learners of English. Explore how English works and is used and expand your knowledge of contemporary ELT pedagogy. Take the opportunity to gain an additional teaching qualification with the Cambridge Teacher Knowledge Test* (TKT).
You'll gain in-depth subject knowledge about language structure and language use, as well as contemporary pedagogical approaches and research associated with language learning and teaching.
Tutors with international experience and expertise in researching a range of TESOL issues will help you develop your understanding of teaching and hone your skills in core modules designed specifically for novice language teachers.
You will develop your professional skills through observation of experienced teachers and reflection on language learning while attending a foreign language class. You will also gain practical teaching experience with beginner learners of English.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
There are a number of possible sources of funding: loans and grants, bursaries and scholarships.
Our degrees are highly valued by educational employers and our MA qualification will help you to raise your profile when seeking to advance your career as a language teaching professional. The field of English Language Teaching is increasingly competitive, and many organisations see a Master's level qualification as an essential requirement.
An MA from the University of Leicester indicates to employers that you have up-to-date knowledge and have developed critical and transferable skills that will equip you to take on a more senior role in the language teaching programme of any educational institution. Indeed, many of our past MA students have gone on to gain promotion or move into new, more demanding jobs on completion of the programme.
MA modules
Core modules
Plus either Research Methods and Dissertation or Research Methods and Professional Enquiry Dissertation.
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
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