Enhance your teaching capabilities as an excellent teacher of the English Language with the MA English Language Teaching: Online degree, delivered by the University of Southampton. This online masters degree offers key modules through online learning, allowing you to develop your skills with a range of interactive media such as podcasts and video clips. Over the course of 2 and a half years, this part-time masters course can teach you all the teaching aspects needed such as language analysis to become an inspiring English Language teacher.
It provides you with postgraduate level study in a number of important areas of current theory and practice in applied linguistics and language teaching and provides a focused route for English language teaching professionals who wish to develop advanced knowledge and skills in English language curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. It will give you the opportunity to reflect on your professional experience and update your theoretical and pedagogical knowledge in a flexible and well-supported learning environment.
Get a taste of what studying this MA would be like with our free online course 'Understanding Language: Learning and Teaching'.
If you would like to try out some of the learning activities from two of the modules go to the 'Learning and Assessment' section of this webpage.
Duration: The taught components of the programme are studied over two years (four semesters). The dissertation is written during semester five.
First, or upper second class honours degree or an equivalent standard in other qualifications approved by the University in English, Linguistics, Modern Languages or another relevant discipline, plus two years of relevant professional experience related to English language teaching (other relevant forms of experience may also be acceptable).
Taking an innovative approach to online course design and distance learning, the MA content includes, interactive 'learning objects', podcasts and video clips from lectures and seminars given by teaching and research staff at the University. There is also extensive use of discussion forums and synchronous communication with other students on your course, as well as the module tutors. Full reading lists are provided as well as access to the University library and its stock of e-books and journals.
Students can expect a weekly commitment of 10–12 hours of online study, chatroom seminars and online forums, supported by 10 hours of private study. The course concludes with a 15,000-20,000 word dissertation.
Interactive tasks which are built into the specially designed learning materials which we call learning objects. These are organised around topics.
The formative assessment will consist of online "chats" that you will have with your tutor, as well as feedback from tasks and activities you have previsouly been set. There will also be online forum discussion tasks where you are encouraged to participate with the other students. The formal assessment of the programme will consist of a portfolio collection of tasks (ranging from descriptive to evaluative) related to certain theme, essys, projects that relate to methodological practice in your own institutional context and a 15,000 word dissertaton.