Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Are you interested in a career in English language teaching? Are you already an early-career teacher of English and want to advance your professional standing? Then join the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program from University of Birmingham.

Our distinctive, well-established and popular MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) is designed for those with less than one year’s language teaching experience. We explore different approaches to the teaching and learning of English and study the close relationship between language teaching theory and practice.

TheTeaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program from University of Birmingham encourages you to consider how the concepts, theories and methodologies that you encounter during your course of study will be of practical use in your own teaching career.We aim to equip students with the linguistic and pedagogic knowledge, the research and analytic skills, and the confidence necessary to begin a career in English language teaching.

Career opportunities

By studying a postgraduate degree in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at Birmingham, you’ll develop transferable skills suited to a range of career paths. These skills include strong written and verbal communication, organisation skills, time management and analysing information.

Linguistics and Communication graduates enter many roles, including:

• Secondary School Teacher

• Digital Communications Officer

• TESOL Tutor or Language Tutor

Courses include:

• Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLL&T)

• Syllabus Design and Language Teaching

• Teaching and Learning Grammar and Vocabulary

• Corpus Assisted Language Learning

• Corpus Linguistics

• Globalisation and Language Education