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[JimJam]

Thanks for your reply fluffyhamster.

The reason I ask is that I'm planning to do the full-time campus based MA TESOL and App Ling at Leicester in October.

I wonder if anyone has any first hand experience of this course that they could share?

[spiral78]

I have a friend who did the Leicester programme a few years ago and had positive things to say. He's also got a solid European university position since.

Sorry I know nothing firsthand, though!

[markcmc]

I took an MEd TESOL at Exeter University, in the UK. It was a well run and useful course - and very interesting to take. It also got me some good offers of university work around the world.

Leicester was my second choice, and it looked pretty good to me.

[fluffyhamster]

There was somebody over on the Teacher Discussion forums who actually got kicked off of the Leicester MA (distance course I assume), but then, an organized course isn't at all like an anonymous discussion forum where "anything (i.e. whatever you prefer) goes" academically. Which is why it is so important to choose a course that is more aligned to one's way of thinking (and one's thinking to it!), so that there will hopefully be more receptiveness and and chance of mutual understanding each way than with doing a "solid", respected" but potentially quite staid and "cookie-cuttery" course. (But then, perhaps all the whizz-bang Corpus Linguistics etc etc at places like Birmingham is also becoming a bit pass�? What will be the next big thing in ELT, I wonder? Mass redundancies? ).

[demitrescou]

Anyone in the know as to the better universities in and around the London area with regard to TEFL related MA's?