Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Overview

Develop your knowledge of approaches to English language teaching to facilitate better teaching practice. 

You'll learn how to conduct your own research.

This course is designed for home or overseas students who wish to pursue a career teaching English as a second or foreign language, but who have little or no formal teaching experience.

You'll study applied linguistics, approaches to English teaching and research methods on which later training in practical teaching can build. You'll explore theories of language acquisition and language teaching, with an emphasis on you can apply how such theories practically. 

Careers and skills

This masters is an ideal foundation for careers in the language education sector, and for postgraduate students looking to go on to further study such as PhD.

Many of our graduates become English language teachers around the world: in private language schools, state schools, universities and other organisations requiring English language instruction. Others find employment opportunities in areas such as course and syllabus design, and materials writing in large and small scale publishing houses.

This Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages course from University of York can be used to complement teacher training/development and voluntary or paid roles which focus on the more practical elements of teaching. However this course is not a teacher training programme.

Career opportunities

• Teaching and academia

• Publishing

• Media

• Information management

• Human resources

A number of our graduates go on to obtain research degrees in Education and related topics.