Second-language acquisition, materials design, assessment and classroom practice for English-language teachers and teacher trainers working internationally or online.
Mada University for Science & Technology teaches this award to one academic standard whether you study on campus in Warsaw or on the tuition-free online pathway. Assessment is identity-checked; the marking scheme does not change with your postcode. This is an academic Master's award; where a field has a licensing or registration route, that remains a matter for your professional body or regulator.
You will work through the material as a practitioner-researcher: applied methods, real or anonymised cases, and a supervised capstone or dissertation as the final component. Faculty mark whether you noticed the constraints a slide deck usually hides.
MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Education Governance & Policy Literacy through Education Governance & Policy Literacy; Comparative & International Education; Inspection, Data & Professional Judgement; Curriculum, Assessment & Equity; Additional Support Needs as Systems; Learning Sciences & Pedagogical Leadership, and finish on Education Capstone Inquiry.
Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students design a short sequence for a named group of learners and the criteria that would mark it fairly. Reading is a curriculum extract, an assessment specification, and an evaluation summary. The artefact a marker expects is a plan with outcomes, a task, criteria, and a note on bias.
The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Inquire into curriculum, assessment and inclusion as a practitioner-researcher Read education policy and inspection data without worshipping the dashboard Design and evaluate an improvement in a real setting
Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass.
This course does not confer a teaching licence, QTS, or equivalent registration.
The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
The programme carries 36 credits across four assessed modules. Delivery is tuition-free (0) on the online pathway. Transcripts use letter grades and a GPA scale consistent with Mada University for Science & Technology awards. No professional-body logo is used in marketing to imply endorsement.
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