Course is made up of the following components: 3 compulsory modules in teaching English as a foreign language (essentials of the EFL classroom; theory and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language; teaching grammar and acquiring assessment skills); 3 optional modules from a range of literature courses offered by the English department; 15,000-word dissertation or structured dissertation task, bringing together the 2 strands of the MA: language teaching and English as an academic discipline.