This 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. The University of Birmingham explores different approaches to the teaching and learning of English and study the close relationship between language teaching theory and practice.

The programme encourages students to consider how the concepts, theories and methodologies that they encounter during their course of study will be of practical use in their own teaching career. The University of Birmingham aims 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.