Graduate Programs in English Language Teaching
Concentration: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
WHY IS SFL THE BEST SCHOOL FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN MACEDONIA?
A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY IN MACEDONIA
English Language Teaching (ELT) is uniquely tailored and offered only at UACS
OUR FACULTY
SFL is proud to cooperate with:
- Professors with Long Teaching Experience
- Professors with academic degrees awarded by international universities, and
- Guest lecturers from international universities
UACS is well known for applying various teaching methods, approaches and techniques. Some of them are the following:
- Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
- Community Language Learning (CLL)
- Principled Eclecticism
- Multiple Intelligences
- Participant-Centered Learning methods
- Learning by doing
- Case study
- Role play
- Problem solving
Since UACS SFL is designed to meet the needs of language professionals, students learn the following:
- Modern methodology in teaching English as a Foreign and/ or Second Language;
- The most contemporary techniques for translating written documents;
- Advanced techniques for simultaneous and consecutive interpretation;
- Contemporary standards of business communication in the era of globalization.
The program will improve students’ skills in:
- Teaching a foreign language in diverse multicultural environments, with different groups and at different levels in a socially responsible manner;
- Using computer assisting tools, as Word Fast a translation software with greater speed and efficiency;
- Collecting, analyzing, comparing and evaluating data for the purpose of making different types of translation and interpretation;
- Developing the ability for business communication, effective communication in teams, as well as gaining presentation and communication skills for a multicultural environment
- Know the source language (Macedonian) and the target language (English) at the level of: word,
- idiomatic expression, sentence, discourse, and style;
- Learn the elements of teaching hours and the function of textbooks and materials for teaching English;
- Ability to prepare lesson plans, select instructional materials, recognize the needs and deficiencies of
- students and properly direct their further educational process;
- Gain skills for presentation, transparency and clarity in teaching a foreign language;
- Knowledge regarding the analysis of the basic principles and methods of translation and interpretation;
- Learn the basic principles and methods of business and professional communication and correspondence, business terminology, writing business plans, reports and proposals.
Upon graduation, students earn a diploma which offers vast opportunities for getting a job and/or for freelance work as self-employed foreign language professionals. Some of the professional opportunities that students could pursue as future career are the following:
- English language teacher in primary and secondary education, as well as adult education in both private and public sector;
- Translator and interpreter of different sorts of texts and topics, both in domestic and foreign companies;
- Business communication correspondent;
- Proofreader;
- Book editor.
TITLE AND DEGREE EARNED UPON GRADUATION AT UACS SFL
ACADEMIC PROGRAM MODEL: 3+1
Professor in English Language Teaching
Required courses:
- Advanced ELT Methods
- ELT Testing
-
Research Methods
-
Internship
Three Elective courses:
- ELT Multimedia Applications
- Educational Management
- Pedagogy
- Educational Psychology
- Semantics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
One general Elective course:
- Business English
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership
- Human Resources Management
+ Specialist Thesis
ACADEMIC PROGRAM MODEL: 3+2
MA in English Language Teaching
Required courses:
- Advanced ELT Methods
- ELT Testing
-
Research Methods
-
Internship
Three Elective courses:
- ELT Multimedia Applications
- Educational Management
- Pedagogy
- Educational Psychology
- Semantics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
One general Elective course:
- Business English
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership
- Human Resources Management
+ Specialist Thesis
Required courses:
- Syllabus Design Methodology
- MA Thesis writing workshop
Three Elective courses:
- ELT Multimedia Applications
- Educational Management
- Pedagogy
- Educational Psychology
- Semantics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
One general Elective course:
- Business English
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership
- Human Resources Management
+ MA Thesis
GRADUATE STUDY PROGRAM: MODEL 4+1
MA in English Language Teaching
Required Courses:
- Advanced ELT Methods
- ELT Testing
- Research Methods
- MA Thesis Writing Workshop
Three Elective courses:
- ELT Multimedia Applications
- Educational Management
- Pedagogy
- Educational Psychology
- Semantics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
One general Elective course:
- Business English
- Organizational Behavior
- Leadership
- Human Resources Management
+ MA Thesis