Get work-ready
Broaden your personal and professional horizons with a career that traverses cultural borders. Our internationally recognised TESOL courses will give you a comprehensive grounding in theory and practice, meaning you'll graduate with highly specialised skills to suit a variety of teaching environments in Australia and overseas.
Postgraduate
Postgraduate (further study)
A postgraduate qualification can be undertaken by students who have already completed an undergraduate degree or possess significant, demonstrable work experience. Postgraduate courses include graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, masters and PhDs, as well as specialist programs for industry professionals.
Research
Higher Degrees by Research (supervised research)
Research degrees are research based master’s or PhD programs that focus on a single area of expertise. They provide students the opportunity to carry out highly specialised research under expert supervision.
Career opportunities
As this is a specialist field, you’ll firstly need a recognised teaching qualification if you wish to teach in Australia. Students who seek such an initial qualification should consider the Master of Teaching or Master of Applied Learning and Teaching (Secondary).
When you complete a specialist TESOL course, you’ll be able to teach TESOL in nearly any school or institution (dependent on what level of teaching you’re qualified for – primary, secondary or other). This is also a widely recognised qualification for teaching overseas.
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Learn from the best
Deakin’s TESOL team have a breadth of expertise in language teaching and learning, including experience in a wide range of cultural contexts. They are all active researchers in the field, and have a strong commitment to language education in intercultural contexts, both nationally and internationally.
Partnerships
We have strong partnerships with education communities, governments and research institutions in Australia and overseas, particularly in Europe, the Asia-Pacific Region and Latin America.
Research with us
If you’ve got a unique insight to bring to teaching English to speakers of other languages, take on a higher degree by research. We have the staff expertise and industry links to help you make a difference to the education community.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning Languages (CTaLL) is a research group within the TESOL/languages team that develops worldwide partnerships and serves as a forum for our postgraduate research students and their work.
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