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Nov 09, 2024
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Draft 2025-2026 Catalog
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, MA
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The MA TESOL Program is designed to prepare students to be knowledgeable, compassionate, skilled, resourceful, and competent TESOL professionals in the local and global communities and to teach ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages), EFL (English as a Foreign Language), VESL (Vocational English as Second Language), ESP (English for Specific Purposes), EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and SDAIE (Specifically Designed Academic Instruction in English) to children or adult students. Furthermore, our MA TESOL program is committed to training graduates with skills to become teacher trainers, administrators, test writers, and curriculum developers
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Program Learning Outcomes
The TESOL program is designed to enable students, upon graduation, to:
- Understand the structure of the English language (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse)
- Demonstrate an understanding of language variation and cross-linguistic differences
- Knowledge of first and second language development and the development of bilingualism/multilingualism
- Use theory as a lens for thinking critically about social inequities in local/global contexts.
- Be a knowledgeable consumer of educational research
- Be skillful in a wide range of instructional materials, approaches, and methods for learners at different stages of development and from differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds
- Use a wide range of assessment tools for including informal/formal, individual/group, formative/summative instruments
- Design, implement, and assess K-12, post-secondary, community programs focused on multicultural language/literacy education in English
Major Requirements (30 units)
The Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) requires 30 units of coursework. These units should include:
And one of the following courses:
Social and Cultural Studies (3 units)
One course from the following:
Electives (6 units)
Students may choose two elective courses from the following areas:
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