TESL MA courses: Research: 6 or 9 credits
Students in the TESL MA are required to have course work and/or experience in the research process as listed below. While we do not anticipate that all our students will become researchers, we strongly believe that all TESL teachers need to understand the research process in order to read the scholarly literature and also in order to understand what others are doing when they do research in their future schools and classrooms.
Research: Plan A: 9 credits; Plan B: 6 credits
English 607: Research in English: Empirical Designs, 3 credits, required;
English 699: Thesis, 6 credits, required for Plan A;
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English 668: Research in TESL, 3 credits, required for Plan B.
In other words, students completing the Plan A option will take English 607 and 699; but students taking the Plan B option will take English 607 and 668.
Plan A students are generally advised to take English 607 only after they have a topic for their thesis. In this course, a student may be able to write as much as half of the thesis and so having a topic for a thesis is an extra-curriculum pre-requisite for this course. Of course, students are free to change their thesis topic after they have completed English 607.
