TESOL & Linguistics seeks to equip you with the practical and theoretical knowledge and skills you need to work in the contemporary ESOL/EFL classroom. It also aims to develop in you the personal and professional values needed to achieve academic and practical success in the area of linguistics. We use humanistic teaching methods and a flexible and vocationally relevant curriculum that is flexible, responsive to student need and vocationally relevant. At the end of your studies, you may have the opportunity to gain the Trinity College London CertTESOL qualification.
The study of TESOL & Linguistics gives you the opportunity to develop a detailed understanding of the nature of language and how it works. You will look at the processes involved in language learning, and current language teaching approaches, and will put these approaches into practice. You will also look at language and society, language and gender and language and the mind, as well as examining the building blocks of language – syntax and morphology.
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