Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching

King's College London

Postgraduate

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The Applied Linguistics & English Language Teaching MA is for experienced teachers wanting to extend their knowledge and understanding of current research, theory, pedagogy and practice in ELT.

The course offers you an excellent opportunity to further your career in ELT and develop expertise in specialist fields such as language assessment and testing, materials development, teaching EAP, management and evaluation and ESOL.

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About this course

Opportunities to expand your knowledge of current theoretical and practical aspects of language teaching.

Excellent tutorial support and extensive programme-specific training in research methods and academic writing.

Exchange ideas with other experienced language teaching professionals from many different linguistic and cultural contexts.

Opportunities to develop professional expertise relevant to your career development in areas, including EAP, materials development, language testing and assessment, teacher education.

This programme is especially popular with UK-based and international students who are at a point in their career when a Master's degree is helpful in professional advancement. Our graduates have found that their promotion opportunities have been greatly enhanced by this advanced qualification. More recently, some of our graduates have returned to take up MPhil/PhD studies.

Many of our graduates from the Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching MA course choose to remain in further education and go on to follow MPhil/PhD pathways.

A 2:1 class honours degree is usually required in a relevant subject (including, but not limited to, a modern foreign language, English, Education, Linguistics, etc.). If you have a lower degree classification, or a degree in an unrelated subject, your application may be considered if you can demonstrate significant relevant work experience, or offer a related graduate qualification (such as a Masters or PGDip).

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Subjects

  • English Language
  • English
  • Materials
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Learning Teaching
  • Linguistic Analysis
  • Language teaching
  • Foreign Language Teaching
  • Additional Language Acquisition
  • Linguistics

Course programme

Course Structure

Courses are divided into modules. You will take modules totalling 180-195 credits.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

Required Modules

You are required to take the following modules:

  • Linguistic Analysis for Language Teaching (30 credits)

  • Principles and Practices in Second/Foreign Language Teaching (30 credits) [fast track students exempt from this module]

  • Second/Additional Language Acquisition (15 credits)

  • Research Methods and Dissertation in Applied Linguistics/Language Learning and Teaching (60 credits)

  • Sociolinguistics (15 credits)

Optional Modules

You will take an additional 30-45 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include modules from the list below, and may include a maximum of 40 credits from language/linguistics-related modules from other programmes at King's College London, at the discretion of the Programme Director.

  • English for Academic Purposes (15 credits)

  • Language Assessment (15 credits)

  • Materials Development in English Language Teaching (15 credits)

  • Teacher Education (15 credits)

  • The Digital ELT Classroom (15 credits)

  • Multilingualism, Migration & Diversity (15 credits)

  • Corpora for ELT (15 credits)

  • Teaching and Learning Pragmatics (15 credits)

If you are following the two-year part-time course, you will usually take the modules in the following order:

Year 1

  • Principles and Practices in Second/Foreign Language Teaching (30 credits)

  • Sociolinguistics (15 credits) or Second/Additional Language Acquisition (15 credits)

  • Part-time students divide their 30-45 optional credits more or less equally across the two years

Year 2

  • Linguistic Analysis for Language Teaching (30 credits)

  • Sociolinguistics (15 credits) or Second/Additional Language Acquisition (15 credits) – whichever of these you did not take in Year 1

  • Part-time students divide their 30-45 optional credits more of less equally across the two years

  • Research Methods & Dissertation in Applied Linguistics/Language Learning & Teaching (60 credits)

If you are taking the part-time, fast-track course, you will usually take the modules in the following order:

Year 1

Sociolinguistics (15 credits)

Second/Additional Language Acquisition (15 credits)

  • Linguistic Analysis for Language Teaching (30 credits)
  • Fast-track students divide their 30-45 optional credits more or less equally across the two years

Year 2

Sociolinguistics (15 credits)

Second/Additional Language Acquisition (15 credits) - whichever of these you did not take in Year 1

  • Fast-track students divide their 30-45 optional credits more or less equally across the two years
  • Research Methods & Dissertation in Applied Linguistics/Language Learning and Teaching (60 credits)

Additional information

Full time overseas fees: £16,500 per year (2019/20)

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