MA in Language Education Leadership and Management

Master

In Richmond-Upon-Thames

£ 7,000 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Richmond-upon-thames

MA in Language Education Leadership and Management – starting Fall 2018
Programme Overview
Richmond University’s MA in Language Education Leadership and Management aims to provide a high quality professional education. It has been designed to prepare candidates for a career as future leaders and senior managers in the field of language education and language services in the UK and internationally.
In the context of the Chinese language in a multilingual and multicultural environment, MA in Language Education Leadership and Management is the only MA available on the market dedicated to the training of future language provision leaders and managers with this two pronged approach: provide insight into language learning and teaching a well as leadership and management knowledge and skills.
The programme brings together academics, applied linguists, business and management professionals, and language teaching practitioners to offer:
a sound grounding in theoretical and methodological issues related to the learning and teaching of language
a solid foundation in strategic leadership and management of language education and language service business.
It is designed to:
equip students with professional skills and experience that prepare them for rewarding management roles in their future career
foster an enhanced awareness of the changing needs and contemporary issues in language education and language services in multilingual societies today.
Students are expected to complete an internship by which to gain the practical skills and to apply their knowledge in the workplace.
The Accredited Internship
The Accredited Internship is an integral part of the programme. It provides an invaluable opportunity for students to deploy the knowledge and skills learned in courses in a real world setting, where students will be challenged to relate classroom situations to the workplace, make contacts valuable to their future employment prospects, and gain confidence in...

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Richmond-Upon-Thames (Surrey)
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Queen'S Road, TW10 6JP

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Learning Teaching
  • Financial Training
  • Accredited
  • University
  • Financial
  • Design
  • Teaching
  • Leadership
  • Supervisor

Course programme

The structure of the MA in Language Education Leadership and Management is organised as follows:

  • three core courses in the Fall semester
  • three core courses in the Spring semester, one of which is an option to choose between two business studies courses, depending on demand and faculty availability
  • Internship in the summer
  • The MA in Language Education Leadership and Management dissertation is written over the Summer semester.

All courses are FHEQ Level 7

For dates of the course, please see University Academic Calendar.

Fall Semester

LED 7101 (4.000 CREDITS) Language Learning and Language Teaching
The course is designed to familiarise the students with developments in theories of language learning and language teaching, most notably the evolution of second language acquisition theories and of language teaching methodologies. The course also examines the main issues in language learning and teaching in the European and global contexts of multilingualism and plurilingualism, the roles of teachers and learners, Chinese and English as International languages and lingua francas, as well as awareness of how such developments can contribute to learning and teaching practices.

LED 7102 (4.000 CREDITS) Course Design, Development and Assessment
This course prepares students to become professionals with leadership qualities in language education by developing knowledge and skills in designing and developing effective language courses and curricula that meet the needs of learners in an age of multilingualism and plurilingualism. The course covers curriculum design and development in the context of linguistic theory, changing learning environments and the need for intercultural communication competence. It examines the development of learning and teaching materials. It explores techniques and strategies of language assessment, taking into consideration the main frameworks of standards in Chinese and English and the development of intercultural communication competence.

FNN 7102 (4.000 CREDITS) Financial Management
This course is designed to develop the student’s ability to apply key concepts and tools in financial analysis to the needs of the modern corporation. Students will gain the key foundations for understanding, analysing and interpreting financial information, enabling application to financial decision making in modern business organisations.

Spring Semester

LED 7105 (4.000 CREDITS) Language Policies, Markets and Technologies
The course is designed to develop a deep and systematic understanding of the development of language policies in a multilingual age. It investigates issues of the provision of language services in the contexts of national and international markets and the deployment of technologies in language learning and teaching. The course also aims to develop understanding of pathways to influencing language policies and the effective application of modern technologies leading to more effective management and delivery of language programmes.

MGT 7110 (4.000 CREDITS) Managing Organisations and People
Organisations consist of the people who work within them. The objectives of this course are therefore to raise the student’s awareness of the centrality of managing organisations and people to understanding organisational functioning and effectiveness. To show how an understanding of human behaviour via the disciplinary bases of psychology, sociology and anthropology profoundly deepen our analysis of organisations. To demonstrate the core value of an understanding of managing organisations and people to a manager’s ability to achieve organisational goals.

MGT 7130 (4.000 CREDITS) Strategic Management
The course explores issues relating to the strategic management of organisations, focusing on strategic analysis and evaluation, long-range planning and policy implementation. The topics covered fall into two broad themes: corporate strategy (‘in which industries should we operate?’) and business strategy (‘how should we compete in those industries?’) The course covers the core strategic analysis models, and uses case studies to analyse the relationship between a firm’s internal organisation and the environment in which it operates.

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MGT 7135 (4.000 CREDITS) Leadership & Strategic Change
This course contextualises organisational, behavioural and leadership issues of change within an integrated framework that synthesises strategy, leadership & organisational design. It encompasses the core concepts of leadership and strategic change to enable students to manage the more complex behavioural and organisational issues to deliver change across diverse cultural, functional, and hierarchal boundaries.

Summer Semester

LED 7107 (4.000 CREDITS) Graduate Internship
This course consists of a work placement of between three to five days a week over a period of between nine and thirteen weeks (depending on the requirements of the host organisation). Students will be placed in an organisation where they will be able to participate in graduate level experiential learning in order to develop the practical skills and professional experience which will prepare them for employment in the field of language teaching and language teaching management. For MA in Language Teaching, internship opportunities may exclude direct language teaching in certain sponsoring organisations but are all related to language learning and teaching. Placements are supervised, career-related work experiences combined with reflective, academic study that help students ‘learn by doing’. During the internship, the staff of the Internship Office and the MA internship faculty supervisor work closely with each student and with the organisation to ensure that the placement is a successful one.

LED 7108 (8.000 CREDITS) Research Dissertation
This course supports students in the production of a 10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation. Students intensively study a topic, agreed with a supervisor, which applies theory to practical and professional contexts, thus further developing skills and experience which can be applied in work placements or in further graduate work. All stages of the research and writing are overseen by a thesis supervisor. Collaborative and supportive dialogue with the supervisor and with peer research colleagues will involve advice on the research and writing process, suggestions for resources and research directions, and comments on draft chapters of the thesis.

MA in Language Education Leadership and Management

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