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Re: MA degrees for teaching ESL
Posted By: Macca <newzild@hotmail.com> In Response To: Re: MA degrees for teaching ESL (mcsensei)
Date: Sunday, 25 October 2009, at 10:38 p.m.
Most major universities in English-speaking countries offer MA degrees in TESOL or ALIN. Generally speaking, they are recognised in other countries unless they were issued by shonky universities, bought online, that sort of thing.
I understand your concern. I'm currently doing an MA ALIN by distance education through a New Zealand university (I'm a Kiwi, but I live in Korea). However, I'm pondering whether or not it's better to change it to an MA TESOL. At my uni, the main difference is that ALIN is more general and concentrates more on research, whereas TESOL concentrates more on core courses for teaching, grammar, classroom praxis, etc. All of the courses are from the same pool, but you can choose different ones depending on whether you're in the ALIN or TESOL stream. As it happens, I've done all the core courses for both streams, so I can choose between ALIN or TESOL. Like you, I'm not sure what to go for.
I understand your feelings about the Cambridge certificate. I did a 120 hour Cambridge CELTA certificate in just one month, and consider it more useful in a practical sense than my MA, which I've so far been studying for a year!
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