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Overview
Learn how to teach English as a global language on this Master's in TESOL degree. You'll develop practical English language teaching skills, methodologies and techniques, and study the latest research-backed methods for effectively teaching English to speakers of other languages.
With this TESOL Master's degree, you'll become prepared to inspire students worldwide and find yourself ready for career opportunities both locally and internationally. As English continues to grow as the world's lingua franca, your specialised training will be highly valued by schools, universities, businesses and organisations in need of qualified English instructors.
You can study in a way that fits around your existing professional and personal commitments by choosing between full-time, part-time, campus-based or distance learning options. If you study full-time on campus, you can also choose to spend a year building professional teaching experience on placement.
Whether you want to teach in your local community or travel abroad to teach English, this course will give you the skills to positively impact students across diverse cultures through English language education.
Want to study with a work placement?
You can also study for this MA TESOL and
Looking to explore linguistic theories and uses of language in teaching and beyond?
You may be interested in our MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL.
Or, prefer to focus on a broader study of language, including its use in social, professional and legal contexts?
You can also choose to study our MA in Applied Linguistics.
This is a new course and we're finalising the detailed information for this page.
Contact information
Contact AdmissionsEntry requirements
September 2025 / January 2026 start
- A 2:2 honours degree or equivalent.
Please get in touch if you're not sure if your undergraduate subject is relevant to this degree.
Equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered, such as previous study, employment, voluntary work and training courses, including courses and qualifications you didn't complete. Learn more about our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
If you're applying as an international student with a non-UK degree, you’ll need to show you meet the UK entry requirements listed above.
To find out if your non-UK degree or other qualification is accepted, please visit our page for your country and view the UK equivalent of your qualification.
- Some teaching experience is desirable, but not an expectation.
- English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.5.
You do not need an IELTS or equivalent certification if:
- you have a UK degree
- you have a degree from a majority English speaking country (not taught by Distance Learning)
- you are a national of a majority English speaking country
Degrees taught solely in English from non-majority English speaking countries will be considered on a case by case basis. Find out more about our English language requirements.
If you do not meet the English language requirements yet, you can achieve the level you need by successfully completing a pre-sessional English programme before you start your course.
Course costs and funding
Tuition fees (September 2025 / January 2026 start)
- Full-time: £10,900&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
(optional placement year: £2,875) - Part-time: £5,450 per year
- Full-time (distance learning): £10,900
- Part-time (distance learning - 2 years): £5,450 per year
- Part-time (distance learning - 3 years): £3,630 per year
- Full-time: £10,900
(optional placement year: £2,875) - Part-time: £5,450 per year
- Full-time (distance learning): £10,900
- Part-time (distance learning - 2 years): £5,450 per year
- Part-time (distance learning - 3 years): £3,630 per year
- Full-time: £17,900
(optional placement year: £2,875) - Part-time: £8,950 per year
- Full-time (distance learning): £10,900
- Part-time (distance learning - 2 years): £5,450 per year
- Part-time (distance learning - 3 years): £3,630 per year
Modules
Full-time
Core modules
Through practical tasks like lesson planning, material use, and micro-teaching, you’ll build essential skills for designing and delivering effective English lessons.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
By building your language expertise, you'll gain critical evaluation skills and blend theoretical insights into practical knowledge.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods can support linguistic research—gaining both analytical insight and transferable skills for a range of language-focused careers.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
You'll develop a proposal, choose appropriate methods, and carry out in-depth research, building your skills in critical inquiry and independent study.
Part-time on campus
Core modules
Through practical tasks like lesson planning, material use, and micro-teaching, you’ll build essential skills for designing and delivering effective English lessons.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
By building your language expertise, you'll gain critical evaluation skills and blend theoretical insights into practical knowledge.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods can support linguistic research—gaining both analytical insight and transferable skills for a range of language-focused careers.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
You'll develop a proposal, choose appropriate methods, and carry out in-depth research, building your skills in critical inquiry and independent study.
Full-time with professional experience
Core modules
Through practical tasks like lesson planning, material use, and micro-teaching, you’ll build essential skills for designing and delivering effective English lessons.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
By building your language expertise, you'll gain critical evaluation skills and blend theoretical insights into practical knowledge.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods can support linguistic research—gaining both analytical insight and transferable skills for a range of language-focused careers.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
You'll develop a proposal, choose appropriate methods, and carry out in-depth research, building your skills in critical inquiry and independent study.
Core module
With support from our Placement and Careers teams, you’ll be responsible for securing your own professional experience opportunity - whether it's an internship or work placement.
You'll develop professional connections and employability skills while preparing for life after your degree.
Full-time (distance learning)
Core modules
Through hands-on activities and micro-teaching, you'll connect TESOL theory to practice, develop lesson plans, deliver lessons, and learn to use classroom materials effectively.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
You’ll develop principled frameworks for evaluating and writing language learning materials, drawing on theories of second language acquisition.
Discover a range of approaches to materials analysis, evaluation and writing and learn how to select appropriate approaches according to the teaching context.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods support linguistic analysis—building both analytical and transferable skills for professional and academic contexts.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
You'll develop a proposal, choose appropriate methods, and carry out in-depth research, building your skills in critical inquiry and independent study.
Part-time distance learning (2 years)
Core modules
Through hands-on activities and micro-teaching, you'll connect TESOL theory to practice, develop lesson plans, deliver lessons, and learn to use classroom materials effectively.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
You’ll develop principled frameworks for evaluating and writing language learning materials, drawing on theories of second language acquisition.
Discover a range of approaches to materials analysis, evaluation and writing and learn how to select appropriate approaches according to the teaching context.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods support linguistic analysis—building both analytical and transferable skills for professional and academic contexts.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
From developing a proposal to choosing research methods and conducting independent study, you’ll strengthen your skills in inquiry, analysis, and academic writing.
Part-time distance learning (3 years)
Core modules
Through hands-on activities and micro-teaching, you'll connect TESOL theory to practice, develop lesson plans, deliver lessons, and learn to use classroom materials effectively.
You’ll learn to plan lessons, design targeted activities, scaffold tasks, and guide structured writing, while building confidence through interactive sessions and small-group micro-teaching.
Optional modules
Through critical analysis and reflection, you’ll discover how key psychological concepts and theories relate to real-world language learning and teaching environments, including your own contexts.
You’ll learn about factors such as teacher and learner beliefs, emotions and identities that influence language learning and teaching. You’ll then use these insights to address issues and challenges informed by psychological theory and research.
You’ll cover the history and geography of English in the world, variation across Englishes, English as an international lingua franca, translanguaging, the pedagogy of English as an international language, linguistic imperialism, language and ideology, language and identity, and language and de-colonisation.
You'll develop practical tech skills, create and evaluate teaching materials, and explore how corpus methods support linguistic analysis—building both analytical and transferable skills for professional and academic contexts.
You'll consider both what we know about how people learn languages and the practical considerations determined by the context in which the classroom teaching happens.
You'll learn about planning activities, lessons and courses for a variety of situations, as well as strategies for motivating learners.
Optional modules
You’ll explore leading theories and models explaining successful language learning, considering how individual differences intersect with social, cultural and linguistic environments.
You’ll reflect on your own unique language journey to help you rethink teaching practices. Gain tools to evaluate multilingual language policies and program design grounded in evidence-based best practices for dual language, ELL and foreign language education contexts.
You’ll develop principled frameworks for evaluating and writing language learning materials, drawing on theories of second language acquisition.
Discover a range of approaches to materials analysis, evaluation and writing and learn how to select appropriate approaches according to the teaching context.
From developing a proposal to choosing research methods and conducting independent study, you’ll strengthen your skills in inquiry, analysis, and academic writing.
Changes to course content
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies.
Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry. If a module doesn't run, we'll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.
How to apply
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Start this course in September 2025
On-campus
Distance learning
Start this course in January 2026
On-campus
Distance learning
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You'll usually get a decision within 10 working days, so you shouldn't have to wait too long. Some courses have an interview stage – we'll let you know if you need to prepare for one.
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Finalising this course
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This course is in the final stages of this process and is open for applications. If any details of the course or its approval status change after you apply, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and will be here to discuss your options with you.