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Degree Offered: MA in ESL.
Length of Program: 4 semesters. Students may be full-time or part-time and must begin the program at the beginning of the fall semester.
Program Requirements: 33 semester hours. Competence in a language other than English is required. Practice teaching in not required. A practicum course is available as an elective (50 TESOL/TESL/TEFL
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Degree Offered: MA in ESL.
Length of Program: 4 semesters. Students may be full-time or part-time and must begin the program at the beginning of the fall semester.
Program Requirements: 33 semester hours. Competence in a language other than English is required. Practice teaching in not required. A practicum course is available as an elective (50 hours of practice teaching). Neither a thesis nor a comprehensive examination is required. A final reflective paper is required in place of the comprehensive exam.
Courses Offered: (*required) *Linguistics for Non-Majors; *Methods of Teaching ESL; *Modern English Grammar; *Grammatical Analysis; *Second Language Acquisition Theory; *Second Language Acquisition Research; *one course in Reading or Writing (e.g., Academic Writing in ESL, Contrastive Rhetoric, Linguistic and the Study of Literature); *one course in Culture (e.g., Cultural Dimension in Second Language Acquisition); *two electives (e.g., Curriculum Development, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Code Switching, Testing and Evaluation).
Full-Time Staff: H. Douglas Adamson, Roseann D. Gonzalez, Jun Liu, Muriel Saville-Troike, Rudolph C. Troike (director), Linda R. Waugh.
Admission Requirements: The university requires a BA or BS from a recognized university with a minimum GPA of 3.0 (a 3.5 GPA is preferred), GRE scores from the general exam, a 2-3 page statement of purpose, a resume or via, three letters of recommendation (preferably from academic sources), a 6-10 page writing sample on an academic topic, and a minimum of one year of teaching experience. Nonnative speakers of English must have a TOEFL score of 550 [CBT 213; iBT80] and a TSE of 55. A TOEFL score of 600 (CBT 250; iBT100) is preferred. The TSE is required only for those applying for a teaching assistantship.
Tuition, Fees, and Aid: For in-state students, US$2772 per semester for full-time enrollment; for out-of-state students, US$6,129 per semester for full-time enrollment. Fees are miscellaneous US$111.92 per semester; international students: orientation fee, US$75; SEVIS fee, US$40 per year. Tuition scholarships registration scholarships, teaching assistantship (through the English department as well as through a number of language departments), fellowships, minority fellowships and Peace Corps Fellowships are available.
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None of this program is available via distance learning.
The university has an intensive English language program for nonnative speakers.
Further Information: Director, English Language/Linguistics Program
English Department
Modern Languages 456,
Telephone: 520 621-7216
Fax: 520-621-7397
E-mail: maesl@u.arizona.edu
http://ellprog.web.arizona.edu
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