English Language Teaching (Distance Learning)

This English Language Teaching (Distance Learning) course from London Metropolitan Universityoffers a global approach to the field of English language teaching. With the diverse and multilingual cohort, they adopt a strongly intercultural approach which provides you with a challenging and valuable learning experience.

The English Language Teaching (Distance Learning) course from London Metropolitan University is designed for teachers and language professionals as well as those with no teaching experience.

Quick Facts:

• The course ensures you develop new ways of thinking and talking about English language and English language teaching, and learning across different social and educational contexts.
• The English Language Teaching is a distance learning course, one of the first in London, offering you flexibility to suit your commitments and requirements. Based on the latest trends and findings in the subject areas, you'll explore theoretical and practical aspects of English language learning and teaching.
• The focus on intercultural issues will develop new ways of thinking and talking about language and language teaching across different linguistic, sociolinguistic and educational contexts. The applied nature of the course will enhance your confidence and employability.

Career opportunities:

• The course offers opportunities for career advancement both in the UK and abroad. Most of the graduates can find employment after completion of the course, some returning to more senior positions in their previous employment while others can move into new areas such as school management or language advisory work. Some of their students continue with us to study at doctoral level.
• Many of their current and former students secured English language teaching jobs at schools and colleges in the UK, Switzerland, Poland and Saudi Arabia. A couple of them are doing or have already finished their PhDs with us at London Metropolitan University.

Courses include:

• Issues in Language Learning: An Intercultural Approach

• Language Testing and Assessment

• Linguistics and Language Teaching: the Description of Language and its Pedagogic Applications

• Patterns in Global Sociolinguistics

• Teaching Languages Dissertation