Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Keepongoing]

I did a 2 year resident MA TESOL at San Jose State University. It was a good program, though mostly theory and not enough pedagogy. I liked the small classrooms and the fact that we had students from Thailand, Korea, Japan and elsewhere.

[thebum]

from an online degree mill...

[spliff]

Bucknell Uni. MSED in Education administration.

[Satin]

Webster University, Human Resources Development. Thesis required. Mostly theory and research; very little practical application experience. Interestingly, have never worked in the field of this degree. Do use the BS in Education though!

[jmbran11]

Stanford, but not for TESOL. However, no one seems to care what it's for.

[Tiger Beer]

University of Innsbruck - Austria.

NOT esl/English/linguistics.

[Snowkr]

currently doing MA in TESOL at Alliant International University in San Diego, CA.
Great program... lots of case studies and research. Thesis/practicum also required.

Will it really matter in Korea though? I'm white, western and 20 something. Already spent a year in Korea and China before that... what can I expect to get out of having a masters in TESOL if I return to Korea?

Opinions...?

[Keepongoing]

ome universities ask for an MA, but I think most will go with a BA with experience, but the MA does demonstrate someone's commitment and professionalism; at least it should. I think most positions in Korea can be done with a BA. Congratulations on your course. I have a colleague doing his MA TESOL online and in manyh ways it looks more difficult than doing a resident MA. You don't have the support from other students etc. Paul Nation is his departement head.

[gang ah jee]

[mnhnhyouh]

Mine is a MPhil, a research degree with the only requirement being a thesis. I used naturally occuring carbon and nitrogen isotopes to trace how energy moved in a very large estuary.

Mine is from Griffith University in southern Queensland.

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[mishlert]

Middlebury College.
2 months at the college in Vermont, and then 1 year in Florence, Italy at Middlebury College and Universita degli Studi di Firenze.
My thesis was on the attempted Pazzi rebellion against Lorenzo de'Medici for power, and it had to be written in Italian.

[RobinH]

Eastern Michigan University
MATESOL
practicum, no thesis
great teachers

[BadPegge]

MA, Duke University
German Lit.

[JeJuJitsu]

[mishlert]

No problems with the credits as Middlebury College and the University of Florence have an agreement about credits.