SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

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:

  1. Advanced ELT Methods
  2. ELT Testing
  3. Research Methods
  4. Internship

Three Elective courses:

  1. ELT Multimedia Applications
  2. Educational Management
  3. Pedagogy
  4. Educational Psychology
  5. Semantics
  6. Cognitive Linguistics
  7. Discourse Analysis

One general Elective course:

  1. Business English
  2. Organizational Behavior
  3. Leadership
  4. Human Resources Management

+ Specialist Thesis

ACADEMIC PROGRAM MODEL: 3+2

MA in English Language Teaching

Required courses:

  1. Advanced ELT Methods
  2. ELT Testing
  3. Research Methods
  4. Internship

Three Elective courses:

  1. ELT Multimedia Applications
  2. Educational Management
  3. Pedagogy
  4. Educational Psychology
  5. Semantics
  6. Cognitive Linguistics
  7. Discourse Analysis

One general Elective course:

  1. Business English
  2. Organizational Behavior
  3. Leadership
  4. Human Resources Management

+ Specialist Thesis

Required courses:

  1. Syllabus Design Methodology
  2. MA Thesis writing workshop

Three Elective courses:

  1. ELT Multimedia Applications
  2. Educational Management
  3. Pedagogy
  4. Educational Psychology
  5. Semantics
  6. Cognitive Linguistics
  7. Discourse Analysis

One general Elective course:

  1. Business English
  2. Organizational Behavior
  3. Leadership
  4. Human Resources Management

+ MA Thesis

GRADUATE STUDY PROGRAM: MODEL 4+1

MA in English Language Teaching

Required Courses:

  1. Advanced ELT Methods
  2. ELT Testing
  3. Research Methods
  4. MA Thesis Writing Workshop

Three Elective courses:

  1. ELT Multimedia Applications
  2. Educational Management
  3. Pedagogy
  4. Educational Psychology
  5. Semantics
  6. Cognitive Linguistics
  7. Discourse Analysis

One general Elective course:

  1. Business English
  2. Organizational Behavior
  3. Leadership
  4. Human Resources Management

+ MA Thesis

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