Course summary
Overview Develop your abilities as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, or kickstart your TESOL career, on this flexible Master's in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. You may already be an established TESOL practitioner (or ELT, EFL or EAP) with a minimum of three months full-time teaching experience, looking to advance your skills and become an expert in your field. If not, as long as you've completed initial ELT, TESOL or TEFL teacher training, you can still apply for this course and do an extra module to build up your practical teaching skills. On this course, you'll apply contemporary TESOL theory to the classroom. Guided by our expert teaching team, you can apply your learning to the context of teaching you currently work in or aspire to, whether that's in the private or state sector, teaching adults, primary, secondary or higher education. You'll use a global perspective to critique your own approaches to teaching, conduct your own research into teaching techniques, and explore lesson planning and course design. You can study in a way that fits around your existing professional and personal commitments by choosing between full-time, part-time, campus-based or distance learning options. When you graduate, you'll have a deeper understanding of TESOL and how best to get results as an expert practitioner. Eligibility This course accepts UK, EU, and international students. What you'll experience
- Take your TESOL knowledge and teaching skills to postgraduate level
- Choose to study in a way that suits you and your professional life, from on campus or distance learning, full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 or 3 years), and a September or January start
- Reflect on your classroom practice in order to improve the way you teach
- Learn to effectively plan and design a syllabus, courses and assessment methods, and choose to build a portfolio of lesson plans supported by critical reflection
- Analyse research into how people learn languages and the implications that has for the classroom
- Explore linguistic theory, unpick the hidden systems and bias in the use of language, and conduct research into teaching techniques
- teaching English as a second/foreign language
- teaching ESOL in the UK
- teaching other languages, applying skills learning on this course
- educational management and/or leadership
- teacher training
- materials writing
- curriculum development
- editing
- publishing
- advertising
- Up to 6 hours of teaching time every week (lecture, seminar or workshop) for each module you study, held over no more than 3 consecutive days in a week wherever possible.
- 24–30 hours of independent study each week.
- If you study part-time on campus, your course will be 2 years, while if you study part-time by distance learning, you can choose to complete the course over 2 or 3 years.
- All core material available online at all times so you can create your own study schedule around work or other commitments.
- 12–15 hours of independent study each week.
Modules
Full-time Core modules
- Second Language Acquisition (30 credits)
- Theory and Practice of Tesol (30 credits)
- Analysing Discourse (30 credits)
- Analysing, Evaluating and Writing Materials (30 credits)
- Dissertation Project (60 credits)
- Professional Portfolio (30 credits)
- Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching (30 credits)
- The English Language Teaching Project (30 credits)
- Using Language Corpora for Teaching and Research (30 credits)
- World Englishes (30 credits)
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through:
- written assessments
- dissertation
Entry requirements
A second-class honours degree or equivalent, plus initial teacher training and a minimum of three months full-time, relevant, teaching experience. If you do not have relevant teaching experience, you can still apply for our campus programme, and you will study an additional non-credit bearing module The Classroom Practice of TESOL at no additional cost.
English language requirements
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
|---|---|---|
| IELTS (Academic) | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.5. | |
| Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 176. | |
| Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 176 with no component score less than 176. | |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 91 with a minimum of 24 in Reading, 23 in Listening, 25 in Speaking and 24 in Writing. | |
| PTE Academic | An overall score of 61 with a minimum of 61 in each skill. |
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| EU | £5200 | Year 1 |
| England | £5200 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £5200 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £5200 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £5200 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £5200 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £5200 | Year 1 |
| International | £8950 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship.
Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice.
Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation.
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP