Description

Want to explore Korea, immerse yourself in Korean culture and prepare to teach English around the world?

This degree gives you the skills you need to teach English in Korea and around the world. It's a four year degree that includes a year studying in Korea. We'll equip you with communicative Korean language skills and broad expertise in linguistics. You'll gain a deep understanding of Korean culture and explore theories and methods for teaching English in a multilingual world. We've included the internationally-recognised teaching qualification, CELTA, in this programme. Subject to successful interview.

This programme allows you to study Korean from beginners level. By the end of the programme, you'll have gained the ability to have conversations and discussions in Korean. You'll be able to give presentations and write coherently. Successful students will be able to use Korean for academic, social and professional purposes, reaching upper B2/C1 level on the JF standard for language education.

TESOL explores theories and methods of teaching English to speakers of other languages. Our approach to teaching TESOL focuses on teaching English in a multilingual world.

The Linguistics part of the programme gives you a working knowledge of linguistics, how we use language and how it's structured. There are several modules on the programme which explore linguistics. Some study the way we articulate speech while others explore how English differs around the world. Others examine how language is processed in the mind.

Immerse yourself in Korean culture with a year studying abroad in Korea. You'll spend your third year taking Korean language and other relevant classes at your host university. You'll also take a distance-learning work placement module while you study abroad.

We offer you the opportunity to take a CELTA course free of charge as part of your degree. CELTA is the Certificate in English Language Teaching to Speakers of Other languages. It is an internationally-recognised teaching qualification awarded by Cambridge Assessment English. You'll gain hands-on teaching experience that will prepare you for a career in teaching English. Acceptance onto this course is subject to successful interview.