Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign - Second Language Rovira i Virgili University

Overview

The Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign - Second Language programme from Rovira i Virgili University is a combination of professional and research tracks, and it is designed for national and international graduates, with or without experience, who wish to work professionally in the field of English language teaching.

Career opportunities

The obvious area in which the graduates from this programme can work is English language teaching at all levels. In general, language teaching provides students with multidisciplinary training in the humanities, which prepares them for all sorts of activities involving the transmission of cultural knowledge. The future master's degree graduates will be qualified to work in the following fields:

• Language teaching

• English teachers abroad in both private and state-run institutions

• English teachers for specific purposes in private companies, multinationals and international agencies.

• Teachers of other subjects in English for bilingual institutions.

• Heads or heads of studies in schools.

• English language assistants in foreign universities.

• English language teachers in secondary schools.

• Language advisors for schools, publishers, or other public and private companies.

• University lecturers at graduate or postgraduate level.

• Researcher into teaching-learning English.

• Author of text books for learning English in publishers and similar companies.

• Author of teaching materials—online language learning for publishers and similar companies.

• Educational advisor in schools, publishers and other public or private institutions.

• Research and knowledge transfer in interdisciplinary research groups.

• Language and cultural mediation in public or private institutions.

• Tourism.

• Translation.

• Publishing.