TESOL is the abbreviation for Teaching English to Students of Other Languages. Depending upon your level of dedication, a TESOL major can take the following time to complete:
- Associate Degree: offers a foundation in the theory and practice of second language teaching and learning. Usually completed in two years.
- Bachelor Degree: extends your skills and knowledge to ways in which language is acquired, learned and used in a variety of contexts among a range of age groups. This intercultural specialization commences with features of language, applicable universally, in spoken and written forms and provides, progressively, a knowledge base of language acquisition and learning principles for learner-centred pedagogy. Usually completed in three to four years.
- Master Degree: offers specialized skills and knowledge required to lead TESOL programs, and graduate as a confident, in-demand language teacher. This requires an extra one or two years of formal study.
What You Will Learn?
Courses extend into language assessment, digital technologies and multimedia, applications to language use, analysis and literacy assessment to language program management, the articulated skills for teaching younger learners as well as adults, from Middle Eastern and South-East Asian language backgrounds. You will gain skills for teaching into curriculum areas incorporating language needs of students with additional languages to English.
Click the Curriculum tab above to view the typical subjects covered in years 1 and 2.
Pricing
Prices quoted in the right-hand column are per subject. $670 would be per subject undertaken.
A Bachelor degree is typically equivalent to 3 or 4 years full-time studies, each year comprising of 10 subjects. Final cost can be calculated by multiplying the number of years by the number of subjects per year by the cost per subject.
Example: 3 years x 10 subjects per year x $670 per subject = $20,100.
