Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL

You’ll strengthen your understanding of language learning, explore common challenges that language teachers and learners face, and reflect on your learning and teaching experience.

Key Facts

In all these areas, you’ll be guided to make links between teaching practice, research, theory, and the contexts within which people teach and learn languages.

The Postgraduate Certificate in TESOL program from Victoria University of Wellington is highly regarded worldwide. It has a strong international orientation which reflects New Zealand’s unique position in the Asia–Pacific region. Our graduates have gone on to teach English and work in educational leadership roles in New Zealand and around the globe.

The MTESOL program builds on the legacy of sixty years of graduate TESOL education at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Staff teaching in the program are internationally recognised researchers. They draw on their extensive experience as language teachers and teacher educators to bridge the gap between research, theory, and teaching practice.

Courses include:

• Language for Specific Purposes

• Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

• Assessment for Learning in the Language Classroom

• Language Testing

• Task-Based Language Teaching

• Computer-assisted Language Learning