TESOL - Southern Illinois University Carbondale

TESOL from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a Campus Master Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Master of Arts degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) blends linguistic science with the art of classroom practice. It prepares students both intellectually and experientially so that as teachers they are capable of making wise and informed choices among different language teaching approaches, methods, and techniques. In addition, students will understand how differences among individual students, teaching and learning situations, and social structures influence decisions they will be called upon to make as teachers. The TESOL master's program provides a firm and broad foundation in current theories of language and language learning and graduates will be prepared to take on professional careers as teacher educators and curriculum specialists as well as classroom teachers. There are two options for completing the MA TESOL degree, a thesis option and a non-thesis option. In both cases, 33 credits are required. Both options include three components: a group of core courses totaling 18 semester credit hours, elective courses totaling 9 semester hours, and a concentration ? either a thesis (thesis option) or additional course work from a selected group of focus courses (non-thesis option) which provides the final 6 semester hours. Required Core Courses for the MA in TESOL (18 semester hours) LING 401-3 General Linguistics LING 402-3 Phonetics LING 531-3 Pedagogical Grammar for TESOL LING 541-3 Second Language Acquisition LING 570-3 Theory and Methods of TESOL LING 583-3 TESOL Practicum View more details on Southern Illinois University Carbondale . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.