TESL at the University of Mississippi
PROGRAM: The Master of Arts in TESL consists of 36 hours of 500- and 600-level course
work from TESL, LING, and ENGL.
Core Requirements:
- LING 313 Introduction to Linguistics is a deficit requirement.
- TESL 542 Teaching English as a Second Language (also on line)
- TESL 645 Practicum
- TESL 647 Cultural Dimensions of Second Language Acquisition (also on line)
- TESL 672 Research and Practice in Classroom Second Language Acquisition
- TESL 695 Seminar in Second Language Acquisition
- LING 501 Descriptive Grammar or LING 592 Modern English Grammar
Optional Courses:
- LING 502 Historical Linguistics
- LING 503 History of the English Language
- LING 509 Semantics
- LING 595 Seminar in Linguistics
- MLLL540 Special Topics in Linguistics I
- MLLL541 Special Topics in Linguistics II
- TESL 614 Graduate Seminar in Phonology
- TESL 615 Graduate Seminar in Morphology
- TESL 620 Graduate Seminar in Sociolinguistics
- TESL 697 Thesis
- TESL 671 Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition
- TESL 674 Advanced Methods of Teaching Second Languages
Minor in TESL:The following two required courses and as many as two or more from either the required
or optional courses listed above.
- TESL 542 Teaching English as a Second Language
- TESL 647 Cultural Dimensions of Second Language Acquisition
