Master of Arts - Teaching English as a Second Language

Students will learn the theory and practices of teaching, learning, language, the contexts of teaching and learning, and professionalism. Because of the relatively small size (yearly cohorts of 8-12 individuals), students can count on individualized attention from professors. Students will take courses focused on theory, research, and practice taught by professors whose research specialty corresponds to the course topic. Many of these courses will also include doctoral students in SLAT and other programs. The faculty members are internationally respected experts in the fields of socio-cognitive approaches to second language acquisition, second language writing, corpus linguistics, classroom discourse analysis, and technology-enhanced language teaching.