English Language Teaching MA

Program Overview

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Through a diverse curriculum and international cohort, the program fosters critical thinking, research abilities, and cultural awareness, preparing graduates for successful careers in English language education worldwide.

Program Outline

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English Language Teaching MA

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Degree Overview: This program aims to refine and develop skills in teaching and researching the English language.

• Develop your theoretical and analytical abilities, examining research into language teaching and learning and its implications for educators.
• Hone your skills by practicing in the classroom and critically reflecting upon your own technique and approach.
• Acquire advanced research skills and complete a dissertation exploring an area of personal or professional interest.

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Key Features:

• Option to exit with a Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate, or an Institutional Credit award depending on achieved credits.
• Boost your employability by gaining theoretical awareness of issues and trends in English Language teaching combined with the skills to teach English Language at the highest level.
• Benefit from the teaching team's experience teaching in the UK and abroad and their research expertise, ensuring current trends inform the curriculum.
• Join a community that fosters independent learners and encourages ongoing self-improvement through critical reflection on personal teaching practice.

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Outline:

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Modules:

• Block 1: Teaching Receptive and Productive Skills
• Introduces you to key research areas in teaching and learning listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
• Develops skills to write lesson plans for teaching these language skills.
• Analyzes existing learning resources and develops authentic teaching materials.
• Block 2: Trends and Issues in English Language Teaching
• Examines the main trends and issues in the communicative ELT classroom today.
• Explores strengths and weaknesses of various teaching methods, including topics like teaching vocabulary, learner strategies, and using technology in the language classroom.
• Practice teaching in terms of writing lesson plans, conducting classroom instructions, and using available equipment to enhance the learning environment.
• Block 3: Language Processing and Assessment
• Introduces psycholinguistic knowledge of how language is processed in the brain.
• Analyzes cognitive processes that language learners go through when learning a second language.
• Explores key concepts of reliability and validity in language testing and their applications in language assessment.
• Practice data collection and analysis, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
• Block 4: Research Methods
• Build knowledge on writing a literature review by synthesizing, comparing, and evaluating different information sources in your reading.
• Understand the pros and cons of different research methods and their individual and combined applications.
• Develop and present your own research ideas.
• Blocks 5 and 6: Dissertation
• Conduct and write a dissertation on a mini-scale independent research project based on your research proposal.
• Apply your learned research knowledge to your own research context.
• Engage critically with existing literature and your own study.
• Anchor your research design and data analysis in a relevant theoretical framework.
• Interpret your findings within a wider context.

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Teaching and Assessments:

• Taught through a combination of lectures, online and computer-assisted learning, seminars, tutorials, and workshops.
• Assessments include presentations, essays, micro-teaching, reflective journals, lesson plans with rationale, and research proposals.
• 15,000-word dissertation or work-based project guided by individual tutorial contact, emphasizing independent study with tutor monitoring your progress.

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Assessment:

• Assessments are designed to enable you to develop real-life skills, including writing lesson plans and rationales, conducting micro-teaching, and leading seminar discussions.
• The assessment method varies depending on the module.
• Some modules include presentations, essays, and reflective journals, while others involve lesson plans with rationales, research proposals, and dissertations.

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Teaching:

• The teaching approach is based on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL), recognized as sector-leading.
• UDL offers a wide variety of support, facilities, and technology to all students, including those with disabilities and specific learning differences.
• Teaching methods include lectures, online and computer-assisted learning, seminars, tutorials, and workshops.
• "DMU Replay" technology provides all students with anytime access to audio and/or visual material of lectures, facilitating review and adaptation of materials.

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Careers:

• Graduates pursue careers teaching English across the world, including at universities in Japan and Turkey, a primary school in China, and a language school in Germany.
• Develop transferable skills through presenting your work, analyzing student needs, and solving problems, enhancing employability in various careers.
• This program also serves as a stepping stone to study at the PhD level.

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Other:

• Students who demonstrate a high degree of teaching competence have the opportunity to be employed by the Centre for English Language Learning at DMU.

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UK

2024/25 tuition fees for UK students: £9,435 (full-time) per year

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EU/International

2024/25 tuition fees for EU and international students: £15,800