Where Are They Now? Catching Up with Language Education Alumni
| by Sierra Abukins
Our TESOL and TFL graduates are working and studying all over the world. Read what our alumni and faculty have been up to lately.
Launch your career as a leader in language education.
Our TESOL and Teaching Foreign Language (TFL) master’s degrees give you valuable professional experience while you earn your degree. You’ll be prepared not only to teach but to train other language teachers, conduct research, develop curricula, manage language programs, and lead in the various fields of language education.
We guarantee a minimum 50% scholarship for admitted in-person students.
Start Term | Credits | Duration | In Person | Online |
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Fall or spring |
TESOL: 40 TFL: 42 |
3 semesters (12–16 months) |
Monterey, California | Online, asynchronous MA in TESOL available |
We offer the TESOL and Teaching Foreign Language degree programs in the following formats—choose the program that works best for you:
We coordinate your career and academic advising, making sure your coursework aligns with your career goals. Your advisors will guide you from course registration to preparing for interviews and negotiating new career opportunities.
You will build valuable professional experience while you earn your degree through working in our language programs and taking semesterlong practicum and capstone courses.
You’ll graduate with the capacity to take on many leadership roles in language education. Join the ranks of our successful, in-demand alumni, many of whom were recruited by employers before they even completed the program. See how they are thriving in their careers.
One Year After Graduation
Our rigorous curriculum is taught by renowned language education experts. It balances coursework in the domains of language, pedagogy, and research, with the goal of expanding your career opportunities. You will learn to effectively teach languages to in-person and online students.
You will develop teaching practices that enhance your students’ language learning, create instructional units and lessons that maximize your effectiveness in the classroom, and design research studies and assessment tools to highlight the most relevant opportunities for improvement. Your capstone courses will strengthen your expertise, integrating all of the learning from your program.
Earn the 40-credit TESOL or the 42-credit TFL in three semesters or in just one year with our one-year hybrid option.
See curriculum for more details.
You will have numerous opportunities to customize your degree and put theory into practice.
Check out the program details for your options.
These two degree programs are designed to share faculty and courses, and students take the majority of their classes together so you’ll benefit from collaboration across languages and cultures.
You will be taught by exceptional faculty with years of professional experience in organizations such as the TESOL International Association, the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and the International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF).
Your professors are genuinely committed to your success and dedicated to modeling effective pedagogy in their own teaching. They will be active mentors and colleagues to you while you are a student and throughout your career.
We guarantee a 50% scholarship ($12K+ per semester) if you request scholarship consideration in your online application.
We take a holistic approach when considering your application by looking at your academic background, international exposure, professional experience, and career goals. We welcome applicants with or without teaching experience, and our program has numerous opportunities for you to gain professional teaching experience before you graduate.
Admission requirements for our online TESOL program are the same as the in-person TESOL program. We do not require GRE or GMAT scores for our master’s programs but competitive scores may strengthen your application and positively influence scholarship decisions.
| by Sierra Abukins
Our TESOL and TFL graduates are working and studying all over the world. Read what our alumni and faculty have been up to lately.
| by Mark C. Anderson
Educator Kara Mollano is taking what she’s learning in her TESOL courses at the Middlebury Institute and not only putting them to work in her classroom, but sharing them in a learning circle with her colleagues.
| by Mark C. Anderson
The unique—and intensive—Middlebury English program focuses on exploration, career and camaraderie. Besides an incredible location on the California coast, the program taps into the talent of Middlebury’s TESOL students and alumni.
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