Language Education (Taught)

The MSc Language Education programme is distinctive and highly flexible, encompassing ALL languages. It is suitable for both experienced and novice language teachers. It offers a diverse, research-driven perspective on real-world problems in language education, policy, interculturality and pluriliteracies.

The courses draw on a robust theoretical foundation to develop knowledge and critical awareness of practical issues in how we teach, learn and use languages in a global but locally minded context to enable and inspire future-thinking, evidence-informed practitioners as agents of change. Capitalising on the University of Edinburgh’s unparalleled research expertise, you will have access to a wide breadth of research themes to cater for your academic interests and career aspirations.

This programme enables you to gain intellectual and practical skills to engage with Language Education and Applied Linguistics research to improve practice or as part of interdisciplinary research. Besides offering cutting-edge teaching informed by the latest developments in the field, the programme is highly relevant and also suitable for those interested in:

• Language and education policy

• Materials development

• Curriculum and learning design

• Digital technology in Language Education

• Corpora and Language Education

• Teaching Languages to young learners and across languages

• Language Assessment

• And research into these and other areas of Applied Linguistics

Our students come from all over the world, with an interest in a number of different languages, including Chinese, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and English as additional languages.

Students have the unique opportunity to observe real language classes and visit schools in Scotland. You will also benefit from resources and expertise offered by English Language Education at the Centre for Open Learning and the Moray House School of Education and Sport: leading centres for the studies of language and teaching.