哥伦比亚大学TESOL学什么
最近正在看哥伦比亚大学的TESOL专业,截止到本月我们也收获了两枚该专业的offer。想要进入哥大学习TESOL的同学一起来了解一下吧。
哥伦比亚大学的TESOL设置在教育学院下面,该专业重视学生的教学理论、技巧、实践,教授的方向也更偏课堂教学、语言教育与习得,为学生的教学实践打下坚实的基础。
该项目全称:Master of Arts in TESOL, General Track (36 points)。这个36学分的项目大家可以在哥大官网上看到课程设置:General Courses有15个学分,Core Courses有9个学分,然后又12个学分的Elective Courses。
General Courses有:
- A&HL 4000: Educational Linguistics (3)
- A&HL 4085: Pedagogical English grammar (3)
- A&HL 4087: Introduction to second language acquisition (3)
- A&HL 4088: Second language assessment (3)
- One Language use course from the following (For AL and TESOL General only.):
- A&HL 4001: Sociolinguistics and education (3)
- A&HL 4104: Discourse analysis (3)
- A&HL 4105: Conversation analysis (3)
- A&HL 4106: Text and textuality (3)
- A&HL 4001: Sociolinguistics and education (3)
Core Courses有:
- A&HL 4077 TESOL classroom practices (3)
- A&HL 5301 Practicum I: Integrated skills (3)
- One course from the following:
- A&HL 6301 Practicum II: Listening (3)
- A&HL 6302 Practicum II: Speaking (3)
- A&HL 6303 Practicum II: Reading (3)
- A&HL 6304 Practicum II: Writing (3)
- A&HL 6301 Practicum II: Listening (3)
Elective Courses有:
- A&HL 4001: Sociolinguistics and education (3)
- A&HL 4089: Teaching writing to ESL students (3)
- A&HL 4101: Phonetics and phonology (3)
- A&HL 4104: Discourse analysis (3)
- A&HL 4105: Conversation analysis (3)
- A&HL 4106: Text and textuality (3)
- A&HL 5008: Interlanguage analysis (3)
- A&HL 5011: Technology-based language teaching and material design (3)
- A&HL 5020: Interactional sociolinguistics (3)
- A&HL 5085: Advanced syntax (3)
- A&HL 5087: SLA in the classroom (3)
- A&HL 5105: Classroom discourse (3)
- A&HL 5106: Language socialization (3)
- A&HL 5512: Historical perspectives on language testing research (3)
- A&HL 5519: Instructed second language acquisition and assessment (3)
- A&HL 6031: Advanced conversation analysis (3)
- A&HL 6040: Classroom-based language assessment (3)
- A&HL 6060: Generalizability theory for second language assessment research (3)
- A&HL 6087: Advanced second language acquisition (3)
- A&HL 6089: Second language performance assessment (3)
- A&HL 6097: Task-based language learning (3)
根据Core Courses的设置也不难看出,哥大对于课堂实践和教学技巧的偏重教育,21门选修课里面还可以根据自己感兴趣的方向继续选择4门课针对性的学习也体现了美国教育的自由性。
哥大的TESOL项目只在秋季招生,priority application deadline是在1.15,final application deadline是在4.15。心动不如行动,同学们赶紧准备起来吧