Education - TESOL

Course Overview

Course content is tailored to your own professional context, with practical as well as scholarly tasks and assignments, and discussion with fellow TESOL practitioners worldwide on cutting edge practice and research. Our programme is taught by a highly research-active team that is well published and highly visible in the TESOL world. You will be part of an active research community. Our generic research module gives you a skills and research base that involves you in wider educational debates nationally and internationally. You are also part of the Learning, Culture and Identity research community which includes talks, conferences, guest speakers and the opportunity to hear former MA students in their current work contexts. The programme builds in explicit support for the academic literacies and skills needed to be successful as an MA teacher-researcher. There are opportunities for campus-based students to participate in a volunteer placement scheme teaching Oxford-based asylum seekers. This experience can be built into coursework and assessment. The programme accommodates both the early career TESOL specialist as well as the experienced practitioner seeking career consolidation or development. Options allow for a range of professional specialisms, including The Multilingual Learner (EMI and EAL contexts), ELT Materials Development and English for Specific Purposes. Our programme can be taken fully online as distance learning, fully on campus, or a combination of the two. It offers the unique opportunity for campus and distance learning students to work interactively with one another online. As one of the world's great academic cities, Oxford is a key centre of debate, and alongside our own excellent libraries and resource centres, you will have access to the world-renowned Bodleian Library, the Bodleian Law Library and the Radcliffe Science Library. Oxford is also a centre of multiple language schools such as St Joseph's School and St Clare's College. This makes it a thriving environment for foreign students and the practice of TESOL. We offer a wide range of Postgraduate Certificates, specifically designed for part time students who are working full time. Sessions typically run in the evenings, with some online discussions. On completion of a postgraduate certificate you can then choose to go onto study a further three modules and the successful completion of a dissertation will complete your MA Education. Recent students graduating with an MA Education (TESOL) have moved from teaching into teacher professional development, management of language schools and language businesses, materials and test writing.