TESOL - EDSTNS8910
Stream Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Education
Contact: education@unsw.edu.au
Program: 8910 - Education
Award(s):
Master of Education (Specialisation)
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Stream Outline
Graduate Attributes
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the field of education as it relates to their specialist area of study, and the ability to synthesize and apply disciplinary principles and practices to new or complex environments.
- Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of research-based learning and the ability to plan, analyse, present implement and evaluate complex activities that contribute to advanced professional practice and/or intellectual scholarship in education.
- Demonstrate advanced critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Communicate effectively to a range of audiences, and be capable of independent and collaborative enquiry and team-based leadership.
- Demonstrate an understanding of international perspectives relevant to the educational field.
- Demonstrate an advanced capacity to recognise and negotiate the complex and often contested values and ethical practices that underlie education.
Stream Structure
Students undertake a particular sequence of courses to meet national TESOL accreditation requirements, including 25 days of supervised professional practice in an intensive ESL setting and/or working with ESL classes in mainstream school context (Strand 1). If students already have a recognised qualification in TESOL but want to update and /or extend their professional learning, with the option of going on to higher degree studies, they choose a more specialist focus (Strand 2), including completing a small-scale project.
Strand 1: Sample course structure for qualified teachers who need an accredited specialist qualification in TESOL, and have no prior studies in Linguistics or TESOL.
Four core courses from the Master of Education
Any three TESOL-related elective courses from the School of Education, including:
One capstone TESOL course:
Strand 2: Sample course structure for qualified teachers who already have an accredited specialist qualification in TESOL and who want to update and /or extend their professional learning, with the option of going on to higher degree studies.
One core course from the Master of Education
Any three TESOL-related elective courses from the School of Education, including:
One EDST research methodology course, including:
- EDST5032 Ethnographic Methodology (6 UOC)
- EDST5101 Experimental Research Design (6 UOC)
- EDST5103 Survey Research (6 UOC)
- EDST5120 Qualitative Research (6 UOC)
- EDST5448 Classroom-based Research (6 UOC)
- EDST5458 Researching Education (6 UOC)
- EDST5888 Project (6 UOC)
AND
Two other elective courses offered by the School of Education
These may be any two courses offered in the School of Education, including the TESOL and research methodology courses noted above (i.e., students may take all of the non-compulsory TESOL education courses or more than one research methodology course).
One or both of the two elective courses may be education courses outside the field of TESOL (e.g., educational leadership, special education, gifted education etc.)
Note: Instead of doing one or both of these free electives, students are welcome to substitute up to two courses from the Master of Applied Linguistics, including:
- LING5000 Special Project (6 UOC)
- LING5001 Second Language Acquisition (6 UOC)
- LING5005 The Grammar of English (6 UOC)
- LING5006 Bilingualism (6 UOC)
- LING5015 Discourse Analysis (6 UOC)
- LING5022 Cross-cultural Pragmatics (6 UOC)
- LING5024 Linguistics of Spoken English (6 UOC)
- LING5026 The Structure of Language (6 UOC)
- LING5029 Psycholinguistic Inquiry (6 UOC)
- LING5031 Issues in 2nd Lang Acquisition (6 UOC)
