Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL MEd

If you have an enthusiasm for teaching English as a second language, this TESOL course will support you in developing the knowledge and understanding, skills, attributes, and values necessary to enhance your professional practice in an education role, whether you are new to teaching or an experienced teacher. We have a range of expertise and experience available to you, including innovative teaching approaches, leadership, research, inclusion, and international education. You will have opportunities to develop your professional knowledge of English language teaching within a global context, with particular emphasis on the links between language theory, practice, and research. You will also gain the skills and confidence to teach English as a second language through observations, lesson planning, and micro-teaching. A key part of this course is your dissertation, where you will build up your research skills in order to apply them to a TESOL-related issue. You will explore and examine these educational issues to develop new ways of thinking and understanding, to inform your future career.

You'll need to be a graduate or be able to provide evidence that you can work at the postgraduate level. You also need to have experience of working in educational settings however you do not have to be currently employed in an educational setting.