Master’s Degree in Language Acquisition and Teaching English as a Foreign Language

This online master’s degree provides advanced teacher training in innovative methodologies and approaches to language acquisition and teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to help improve teaching skills and competencies. The master's degree combines an online teaching-learning environment, online contact sessions, and a school teaching placement. The placement can be carried out in the candidate’s country of residence or abroad, through our pre-existing contacts with schools in Finland, the UK, Ireland, and the USA.

Reasons to study this master’s degree

To improve a range of professional competencies as an EFL teacher or educational specialist and to be able to:

1. Identify educational needs and design proposals of educational innovation.
2. Improve teaching and learning processes in bilingual and multilingual contexts.
3. Promote the development of learners’ linguistic, plurilingual and digital competencies and intercultural awareness.
4. Work efficiently in multilingual, multicultural, and interdisciplinary professional and/or academic contexts

Presentation

The growing importance of English as a global language, its introduction at increasingly younger ages in nursery school as well as the widespread implementation of CLIL have radically changed the needs, objectives, and realities in the area of the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in schools. Therefore, schools need professionals who are not only highly proficient in the English language but also have the necessary teaching skills and competencies to be able to respond effectively to the current demands of the school context as well as capable of working in multilingual, multicultural, and interdisciplinary professional contexts.

This is the master’s degree for you if you are a pre-primary or primary teacher, a secondary school teacher, or if you teach in a non-regulated language school. It will also be of interest to you if you are part of a school management team and you would like to discover new perspectives on teaching and learning English as an additional language.

Study program and subjects 2021-2022

Subjects in course 1

• A Focus On Literature When Teaching English As a Foreign Language
• English Pronunciation: Practice and Teaching
• Methods for Teaching English As a Foreign Language 1: Grammar and the Communicative Approach
• Methods for Teaching English As a Foreign Language 2: Linguistic-Academic Abilities
• The Acquisition of English As a Foreign Language in Bilingual and Multilingual Contexts
• Cognitive Factors in Learning Foreign Languages
• Cultural Aspects of Learning and Teaching English As a Foreign Language
• Master's Dissertation
• School Teaching Placement
• Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Theory, Practice and New Technologies
• Research Methods in Education and Academic Abilities in English

Objectives

• To train English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers to efficiently apply different theoretical models and innovative methodological approaches to the teaching, learning, and acquisition of EFL processes in bilingual and multilingual contexts, both in compulsory, vocational, formal, and non-formal education and in the business sector.
• To train teachers by helping them to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and the appropriate skills to promote the development of plurilingual and intercultural awareness among their students.
• To train specialists by helping them to acquire theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary knowledge about educational research models and methodologies in the field of acquisition, teaching, and learning of (first, second and foreign) languages in different contexts and at different educational levels.
• To train professionals to be able to efficiently work in multilingual, multicultural, and interdisciplinary professional and/or academic contexts.
• To train professionals to efficiently use the English language and academic skills in English, both orally and in writing, for academic and professional purposes.