TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
The MA TESOL welcomes students from all over the world to an exciting, practical, personalized degree programme.
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Key Course Details
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£10,800*
International students
£16,900*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
Most English teachers are not native speakers of English. Our graduates will work in different professional and cultural contexts. Our course leader, Dr Rhian Webb, is an internationally recognized expert on teaching English in today’s global contexts.
DESIGNED FOR
Our degree will enhance your technical, practical and key employability skills, provide you with exemptions from professional qualifications and offer value-added specialist subjects.
Career Paths
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Teaching English for specific purposes, for academic purposes, in relation to a specific academic discipline
- Curriculum management, development or design
Course Highlights
Module Overview
This is a full-time, one-year course. It runs over twelve months, and during this time students take 180 credits to qualify for an MA degree. The course is designed to cover three themes
Professional Development
- Intercultural Communicative Competence
- English teacher development
- Teaching in diverse contexts
The International Classroom
- Teaching TESOL language skills
- Assessment and evaluation
- Micro teaching
Research Project and Methods
- Planning a Research Project
- Research Project
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
The course is delivered on the Treforest Campus. We have designed a block teaching model, which means that most class time is in face-to-face immersive workshops.
The programme will feature guest lectures. These lectures may be in the form of webinars, but students and lecturers will attend and participate together in the classroom.
Assessment
Assessment 100% coursework based – there are no exams.
Coursework is relevant to students’ careers and plans.
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Facilities
Students have access to:
- a dedicated TESOL collection of books and resources at the Learning Resources Centre
- IT facilities
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Placements
All students will be offered optional placement hours with the Centre for International English at the University of South Wales. They receive a formal record of these placement hours.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
We require a minimum 2:2 Hons degree (or equivalent), preferably in a discipline related to English/Language/Literature/TESOL; however, strong candidates from broader subject areas (such as Business) will be considered on an individual basis. We will also consider applicants with a relevant teaching qualification or with relevant industry or teaching experience.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each component or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£10,800
per year*£16,900
per year*ADDITIONAL COSTS
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
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University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
Studying at USW
Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.
How to apply
There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).
International admissions
Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.