Modern Languages and Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Description

Our BA Modern Languages and Teaching English as a Foreign Language offers our students who are interested in a career in TEFL (eg as a way of earning money while living abroad), the chance to combine this with the study of one or two modern languages.

In your first year, you do two TEFL modules and two language modules (in the same or different languages). The same pattern will be repeated in your second and final years. Second-year TEFL modules are Methodology of TEFL and Description of English for ELT. To these you add two language modules. These will depend on your entry level in the particular language, including French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Your third year is spent abroad, and your final year includes Directed Classroom Observation and one other TEFL module, such as Teaching Younger Learners, CALL, Language Testing, and Learner Perspectives on Vocabulary. On the modern language side, you carry on with in-depth study of your chosen language.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first and second years you take two compulsory modules and two optional modules. You spend your third year abroad. During your final year you take one compulsory half-year module, and the rest of your modules are optional, with restrictions. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Foundations of TEFL;
one of: Foundations of Sociolinguistics, Foundations of Psycholinguistics or Foundations of Linguistics; and
two language options

Year 2

Methodology of TEFL;
Description of English for ELT; and
two language options

Year 3

Year abroad

Year 4

Directed Classroom Observation half-option;
one English language teaching option;
one English language teaching half-option; and
two language options

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• A-levels: ABB-BBB
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).
• If French or Portuguese is taken as the major language, A-level French or Portuguese/Spanish (or equivalent) is required. German, Italian and Spanish can be studied as the major language either from scratch, via our intensive route, or via our post A-level route. All languages can be studied from scratch as the minor language.
• If you are interested in studying a language for which you consider yourself to be a native speaker, please contact our Undergraduate Admissions Office.

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Want to improve your English level for admission?

Prepare for the program requirements with English Online by the British Council.

• ✔️ Flexible study schedule
• ✔️ Experienced teachers
• ✔️ Certificate upon completion

📘 Recommended for students with an IELTS level of 6.0 or below.

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Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

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