The Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MTESOL) is a one-year professional qualification aimed at producing skillful English language educators for a wide variety of educational settings in the 21st century, from early childhood through to tertiary level. With its future focus, this Master's programme will give students the skills, knowledge, and capabilities to be adaptable in the face of future English language developments, as well as technological and pedagogical advances.
This programme is ideal for:
This programme is available to study by distance, with teaching and learning conducted online. See also the Master of Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
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MTESOL students will engage with contemporary thinking on:
language acquisition
learning and teaching
English linguistics
Sub-topics include the learning of indigenous and heritage languages, technology-enhanced and technology-mediated learning, the structure and use of English (including the study of linguistic corpora), and the position of English in all its varieties in the world (including the study of language politics, and current debate about the status of English and the native speaker).
The course and structure is as follows:
Semester 1 (February–June)
EDEM 631 Foundations of Language Acquisition and Learning
LING 615 World Englishes
Semester 2 (July–November)
EDMM 632 Issues in Language Acquisition and Learning
EDEM 633 Foundations of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Summer session 1 and 2 (November–February)
EDEM 615 Learning and Teaching Languages
LING 400 English Structures
Insurance/year: 700 NZD/per year