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[bellum99]

Can anyone actually recommend a good school to use? I want to take a masters program but i want it to actually be worth the money.

[Incognito]

I'm considering these two. Both are down under.

http://www.une.edu.au/arts/LCL/disciplines/linguistics/appl_ling.htm

http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/

[VanIslander]

[Grotto]

a wee bit pricey too. 17,000$ for an online course?

[mithridates]

For $17000 I could spend a year abroad and pick up two or three more languages. I think that's a bit much.

[Incognito]

[Scott in HK]

I did my Masters in Education through Deakin University.

I was really satisfied with the course. It was flexible and allowed me to take courses that I thought would be of practical use in my daily teaching.

I took the coursework degree, but you can also do a thesis if you want.

Deakin is not cheap. But I like the courses that they offered and that is why I chose it.

I did mine part time over two years and would recommend it to you. Though I would say that you need to be active on the online discussions to really get a lot of the degree. I have two kids and was working full time so I didn't get a chance to take a more active part on the discusssion boards, and I regret that now.

[thorin]

[HapKi]

I am just finishing my dissertation through the University of Birmingham, in England. The program has been excellent, though I can't compare it to others. Its divided into 6 modules, each containing 2 courses. Each module taking 4 months to complete.

Module 1- Language Teaching Methodology-Classroom research and research methods.
Module 2- Second language acquisition- Pedagogic grammar
Module 3- Lexis- Syllabus and Materials
Module 4- Classroom and spoken discourse- Written discourse
Module 5- ELT management- Sociolinguistics
Module 6- 2 optional courses

They send you the reading requirements for each course, and it is always fun every 4 months scouring the bookstores of Seoul like an Easter egg hunt trying to find them. Or you can just order them on-line. After 3 months of reading, you write a 4,000 word paper on one of the many topics provided pertaining to the two courses in that module. You do that times 6 and that's the coursework. Then the dissertation. Korea has a new administration center, at Kyungwon University, and they are the middle man with Birmingham. They also provide an in-country tutor, though I didn't use mine too much. It cost about 13.2 million won (2.2 million x 6 payments) which is reasonable, I think, though the price may have changed since I started. The diploma you receive is identical to those who do the work in class at Birmingham. I plan on being there in person to pick mine up this July!
They accept students twice a year, April and October.

[Derrek]

But remember... if Korea goes the route of Taiwan, you're screwed.

Taiwan will not recognize online degrees. And they check very hard, I hear.

[HapKi]

and I guess I should clarify-
The Birmingham course is not on-line.
It is a "Distance MA in TEFL/TESL"

[VanIslander]

[riverboy]

Athabasca in Canada is considered to be a very good distance program.

[VanIslander]

[mithridates]