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The MA TESOL with Applied Linguistics is for teachers of English as a foreign second additional language who wish to enhance their professional development and further their careers in teaching or associated English Language Teaching industries. The course will build on students? previous teaching experience and professional training to develop their systematic understanding and critical awareness of the trends and debates in modern ELT pedagogy and Applied Linguistics. Throughout the course students? will be encouraged to consider how insights gained from their own personal experiences as teachers and learners of foreign languages relate to the issues and debates in both ELT pedagogy and Applied Linguistics. There are four strands to the programme, which are studied concurrently throughout the year. These strands are: a methodology and second language acquisition strand a course design and evaluation strand a language analysis strand and a research methods strand. The concurrent study of these strands allows for links to be made from the content of one strand to its accompanying strands. The syllabus content and sequencing of each strand has been consciously designed to link in with the other strands to facilitate these connections. Students are encouraged to actively pursue these links in order to increase their depth and breadth of understanding in the field. After successfully completing the taught programme, students progress to the dissertation stage of the MA. This is an extended piece of independent research, which is the culmination of the students? academic development on the programme. The research topic chosen for the dissertation may draw on any of the topics studied in the taught modules and should be tailored to the students' own personal and professional research interests.