Our Language Education students

Our MSc Language Education community of students come from all over the world. Read what some of our graduates have said about this programme.

The Language Education programme welcomes on average around 100 students a year. Students come from all over the world and in the previous year, we had students from a number of countries including Greece, China, Italy, Taiwan, the UK, Japan and Turkey.

'The degree certainly made me a more professional teacher who can effectively apply teaching strategies in the classroom and create a safe zone for students from diverse backgrounds.'

'Many courses in language teaching are integrated with sociological theory. This has enabled me to think about students, education and society on a broader level.'

'The workshop discussions were great, very helpful and quite engaging. The discussions were one of my favourite parts since through so many culturally different perspectives there was so much to learn and share.'

'I studied multilingualism (or plurilingualism), which is a totally different way of thinking with regards to language education than those prevalent in my country. It emancipated me from the ideology of native-speaker beliefs, which make some feel that they need to speak like 'native speakers', but also makes language learning difficult.'

'The broad nature of the programme really appealed to me - the fact that it was 'language education' not 'teaching English', meant that it would leave doors open to potentially teaching [another language] in the future.'

Sakino Kelbie, MSc Language Education 2020

"I particularly enjoyed designing my own research, where I was able to put together what I had learned from the courses on research methods. Having finished my dissertation, I definitely feel empowered." NB Sakino graduated from the MSc Language Teaching, the predecessor to the MSc Language Education