English with TESOL

This course offers you the professional, specialised knowledge and practical skills you need to teach English as a second language while exploring aspects of the English language, linguistics and literature. It offers a professional qualification for aspiring teachers of English as a second language but also for L2 materials developers, TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) practitioners, and researchers in language teaching and learning. TESOL is also a great way to work and travel abroad and in the UK.

Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement

• This course follows British Council regulations.

Facilities and Specialist Equipment

• State-of-the-art online technology to monitor and evaluate your teaching practice and enhance your progress as a language teacher and researcher.

• Multi-media space for webinars and podcasting.

• Four-storey library with extensive range of physical and digital resources as well as PCs, group-work areas, presentation-practice rooms and a silent study floor.

• Access the Hockliffe Collection, a unique collection of 18th- and 19th-century children’s books, as well as our Cinderella archive of books, scripts, designs, theatrical memorabilia and ephemera relating to the Cinderella story.

• 80-seat black-box theatre and 260-seat professional theatre.

Partnerships and Collaborations

• We have well-established partnerships with more than 500 schools and other associated organisations.

• Our partnerships with local councils, charities, schools and colleges offer you work experience supporting learners of English as a second language with free English classes.

Your Student Experience

• Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.

• Support of your own personal tutor, a subject and/or placement mentor, a unit and course coordinator, and the additional support of our experienced library staff.

• You gain the practical skills you need to teach English as a second language, exploring teaching techniques and how to develop resources and materials for different learner groups.

• You complete six hours of supervised teaching practice, where a qualified and standardised assessor observes you and provides feedback.

• Students can access the research expertise of our world-leading Centre for Research in English Language Learning and Assessment (CRELLA).

• You also have the opportunity to collect original data and carry out academic research in TESOL.

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