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    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