Sheikh N Bake
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 Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Free MA? Only for experienced teachers? |
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| copacbl wrote: |
How likely is it to get accepted for a graduate assistantship/fellowship without professional teaching experience? Do most institutions in the US or abroad require tons of prior teaching experience? to take on any debt or pay out of pocket for a degree. Any tips?
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In 1986 I completed an MA in EFL program (yes, the degree says English as a Foreign Lanuguage) out of a linguistics department. In my program, students did not need to have professional teaching experience nor an undergraduate degree in linguistics. All native-speaker MA students were required to have a teaching assistantship which paid full tuition and a stipend that was enough to share an apartment in town and eat. (Come to think of it, I shared a house with one other and later a townhouse.)
There are still full assistantships available, I think especially in midwestern state universities. You might even check lesser-known regional ones. Some ESL programs are out of English departments and some in Linguistics departments. |
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