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Degree Offered: Master’s Degree in TESOL (MTESOL).
Length of Program: 3–4 semesters. Students may be full-time or part-time and must begin their study at the beginning of the fall semester.
Program Requirements: 30 credit hours. Competence in a language other than English is required for native speakers of English. An applied project is required. Practice teaching is optional. Neither a thesis nor a comprehensive examination is required.
Courses Offered (*required): *Research Methods; *English Linguistics; *Theories Underlying the Acquisition of English as a Second Language; *Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language; *Applied Project; American English; Composition Studies; Cross-Cultural Studies; Curriculum Design and Materials Development; Disciplinary Discourses; Grammar for TESL; History of the English Language; Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies; Language Testing and Assessment; Linguistics; Methods and Issues in Teaching Composition; Methods and Issues in Teaching Language; Phonetics and Phonology; Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis; Rhetorical Traditions; Rhetorics of Race, Class, and Gender; Semantics; Special Topics; Studies in Cross-Cultural Discourse; Syntax; Technologies of Writing; Theories of Literacy; Advanced Composition Studies; Advanced Studies in Discourse Analysis; Advanced Studies in English Education; Advanced Studies in Historical Linguistics; Advanced Studies in History and Theories of Rhetoric; Advanced Studies in Linguistics; Advanced Studies in Linguistics; Advanced Studies in Rhetoric, Writing, Technology, and Culture; Advanced Studies in Second-Language Acquisition; Advanced Studies in Sociolinguistics; Advanced Studies in Syntax.
Full-Time Staff: Karen L. Adams, Dawn Bates, Elly van Gelderen (director), Carrie Gillon, Mark James, Roy C. Major, Paul Kei Matsuda, Don Nilsen, Bryan Smith.
Admission Requirements: A GPA of 3.0, three letters of recommendation and a statement of purpose are required. Nonnative speakers of English must have a TOEFL score of 600 (CBT 250; iBT 100).
Tuition, Fees, and Aid: For in-state students, US$6,227 per year; for out-of-state students, US$17,920 per year. A limited number of teaching assistantships are available to master’s students.
General: The focus of the program is on principles and practices of language teaching and the aspects of general and applied linguistics that teachers need for effective classroom performance. One of the largest universities in the United States with a considerable number of international and resident multilingual students, ASU is uniquely situated to provide rich cross-linguistic and cross-cultural experience as well as opportunities for class observations and practice teaching. Students will have opportunities to work with nationally and internationally known experts in TESOL both within the English Department and from various units across the university. The MTESOL program started in 1969 as an MA in English with a concentration in TESL. Since then, hundreds of students from different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania and North America have completed the program. No part of this program is available via distance learning. The university offers a well-established intensive language program for students requiring additional language support.
Further Information:
Sheila Luna, Graduate Coordinator
Arizona State University
Department of English
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
Telephone: 480-965-3194
Fax: 480-965-3451
E-mail: sheila.luna@asu.edu
http://www.asu.edu/english/
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