MA/PgDip TESOL and Applied Linguistics

The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, practical classes, student-led seminars, discussion of research papers, interactive group work and student discovery, analysis, reflection and evaluation. Self-access work also features on the programme. 

Full-time study requires full–time attendance over a 12 month period (October to September). Part-time study allows students to complete the course over three years.  There is no distance learning option for the course.

Assessment

Assessment is through a combination of of essay based and practical coursework, the application of theory to practical settings and students’ own teaching and learning contexts, data analysis and problem solving, materials development and/or critique projects, mini-research projects and critical evaluation of published research. 

Staff Profile

Huw Jarvis

Senior lecturer in TESOL

Areas of expertise include:  technology in language education; methodology; syllabus design; materials evaluation;  and English for Academic Purposes.

Graduated with a BA (Hons.) from Portsmouth and went on to take an R.S.A. Certificate and then Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adult Learners.  Took an MEd in Education Technology and TESOL at the University of Manchester.  Was a teacher and teacher trainer abroad for over 10 years and worked in Thailand (with the British Council), in Kuwait (with the Ministry of Defence) and in Sudan (with the Ministry of Education).   

Founder and current editor of WWW.TESOLacademic.org which disseminates TESOL-based research via free video webcasts, member of the editorial review board for the TESOL Journal published by TESOL, Inc. and senior advisor to the editorial board of The Asian EFL Journal.

Huw's SEEK profile documenting publications is available here.