Teaching English to Speakers Of Other Languages (TESOL)

Overview

Whether your goal is to work as a TESOL professional at home or abroad or to build on your existing experience, this programme will equip you with relevant and practical teaching competencies, improve your global citizenship skills and instil you with an increased awareness of issues related to English language, learning and teaching.

Course Highlights

• This programme is aimed at those who work, or intend to work, as TESOL professionals teaching English in their own country or elsewhere.

• This programme will equip you with an increased awareness of issues related to English language, learning and teaching. 

• This programme is available on a part-time basis for home students with some attendance at Paisley Campus – making it an ideal route if you plan to gain practical experience working while you study.

• This programme also gives you the option of taking a language module, which is studied as an extra module and doesn’t count towards your degree.

• The programme includes opportunities to work directly with ESOL learners and develop your practical learning skills.

Entry Requirements

What qualifications do you need?

We welcome Scottish, UK and international students and consider all applicants on an individual basis.

Don’t worry if your qualifications are not listed here, we take a range of factors into account when assessing your application and are happy to consider other alternative combinations of qualifications and experience

Course details

You’ll study six modules and complete a dissertation over the course of this programme.

Core modules are:

• Language Analysis

• Theory and Practice in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

• Educational Research

• Second Language Acquisition

You will also complete two optional modules, to be selected from the following list: 

• Applied Linguistics

• English as a Global Language

• Language, Identity and Power

• ESOL: the Scottish Context

• Technology-Enhanced Language Learning

• Teaching English to Younger Learners

Following this you’ll complete a dissertation, the title of which will be discussed and agreed with your dissertation supervisor, who will support you throughout this process.

Teaching & Assessment

You will be taught by a combination of direct, face-to-face teaching and online input through our Virtual Learning Environment.

Formative and summative assessments will be used including:

• Essays

• Assignments

• Presentations

• Online discussions