English Language for TEFL BA (Hons)

About This Course

English is an important language socially, politically and economically. As a world language, with c.1.5 billion speakers worldwide, there is a great demand for people qualified to teach English internationally. This English Language for TEFL course will teach you about linguistics, with a focus on English. In your final year you will take modules specifically relating to TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), setting you on the path to becoming qualified as an instructor of English.

On this English Language for TEFL course you will learn about, understand and interpret many aspects of human language. You will get the opportunity to explore the ways in which people’s language abilities develop, how our language changes according to the context in which it is being used and who is speaking, how language is organized and processed in the brain, how language is learnt and how it is taught. You will look at the way English has changed over the centuries, considering what will become of it in the future, comparing English use in different parts of the globe, and considering important practical aspects of English such as the hundreds of millions of people worldwide learning English as an additional or foreign language. You will learn about linguistics and how language in general can be studied, and you will get the opportunity to compare English with other languages, particularly in the context of multilingual societies where English is not the only language used.

Why choose Bangor University for this course?

• We are a vibrant, accessible, friendly department with staff committed to high-quality teaching, excellent student experience, strong pastoral support, and the integration of current cutting-edge research and topics into your lectures throughout the duration of your studies. We are also dedicated to ensuring that our English Language for TEFL students develop excellent skills in critical thinking, data analysis, presentation and independent research to enhance their employability upon graduation.
• Teaching staff are active researchers in a range of theoretical and applied areas of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and English Language - many have international reputations in the field.
• You will gain a strong foundation and scientific insight into the structure and use of language, receive a comprehensive introduction to the fields of TEFL and SLA pedagogy, methodology, best teaching practices and the opportunity to apply your training in an actual TEFL classroom with a lesson plan assessment activity. 
• Our state-of-the-art learning facilities include a professional grade sound / recording studio (our Speech laboratory), an eye tracking laboratory, and an event-related potential (ERP) laboratory and a corpus-linguistics resource facility. We also have audio and video equipment that can be checked out for field work. Our facilities also include an extensive collection of books on Linguistics and English Language and a language library which is maintained by our undergraduate student association - the Bangor Linguistics Society (BLS).