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2017–18 Tesol-related MAs continued lish language teaching? ELT prejudice and the you consider paid holidays, salary

eep politics out of Eng-
KThis was the plea of one increments and pension rights.
Does any of this make any
Centre name Course name Course length Course fees Start Entry requirements
and department dates native speaker teacher faced with politics of ‘passportism’ sense in terms of getting your
Southampton, MA Global Englishes FT: 1 year FT: £9,000 (EU) Oct 2:1 honours degree in English, linguistics, modern a blistering polemic from Wiktor citizens to learn English? Not
University of Modern PT: 2 years £16,710 (O) languages or other relevant discipline, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in Kostrzewski in a piece on the Tefl really, although the importance
Languages (cont) PT: £4,500 (EU) each band) Equity website, a forum which of your accent and language level
£8,355 (O)
supports equal rights of non- may depend on the age of the stu-
MA ELT/Tesol Studies 1 year As above As above As above native speakers of English. Melanie Butler explains how teachers face discrimination on many levels dent. The evidence from studies
Kostrzewski’s blast starts with by Patricia Kuhl, reported in last
MA Language Acquisition 1 year As above As above As above
Research the premise that neither British month’s Gazette, suggests that,
English nor American English can It’s unlikely. Even if they did, if you want to create bilingual
MA English Language PT: 2.5 years £2,800 / year Jan, Oct 2:1 honours degree in relevant discipline, two years’
Teaching (online) in col- (EU&O) relevant ELT experience, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in each band) any longer serve as a ‘reasonable the law introduced in 2011 to infants you need teachers with
laberation with the BC model of English language use’ prevent the lettori claiming their a native-like command of the
South Wales, MA Tesol FT: 1 year FT: £5,150 (EU) Sep Graduate or proof of relevant experience given the racism and the lies so rights means they would not be target phonemic system because
University of PT: 2–5 years £12,600 (O) evident in campaigns for Brexit entitled to the same terms and infants under three acquire lan-
Education* and the election of Donald J conditions as an Italian national. guage phonically. The evidence
Stirling, University of MSc Tesol FT: 12 months FT: £6,200 (EU) Sep Degree, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in speaking and listening and Trump. Of course, the objection is Isn’t that illegal under EU from ELLiE, a longitudinal study
Social Sciences PT: 2 years £14,600 (O) 6.5 in reading and writing)
that, if the ability to teach English law? Of course. Can the EU stop of language in primary schools in
MSc Tesol (Applied As above As above As above As above is limited to the level of racism it? Short of throwing Italy out of half a dozen or more European
Linguistics)
and lies in your national political the Union, it appears not. countries showed that children
MSc Tesol (Call) As above As above As above As above discourse, the number of people There is one exception to the aged between seven and twelve
MSc Management As above As above As above As above able to teach English, or any other no non-nationals rule. It’s the learn very little from a teacher
and ELT language, would be limited to, UK, where 13 per cent of lan- whose language level is under
MSc Education As above As above As above As above, plus one year’s teaching experience or perhaps, the Canadians, the Irish guage teachers and 30 per cent C1. Is that because they acquire
Studies and Tesol education in first degree and the odd Scandinavians. of language teaching assistants it too? Do older learners also
MSc Tesol (online) PT: 2.5 years FT: £7,720 As above As above, plus two years’ full-time English language But that does not mean that the are foreign nationals, not always acquire it naturally? That’s still
(EU & O) teaching experience use of English as a lingua franca teaching their L1. Is that because open to debate. Do they acquire
Stirling, University of MSc Translation FT: 12 months FT: £6,200 (EU) Sep Degree, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in speaking and listening and (ELF) is not itself political. You the British are nice? No, it’s it better from a person with no
Arts and Humanities Studies with Tesol PT: 24 months £13,050 (O) 6.5 in reading and writing) do not have to agree with Robert because we don’t have enough qualifications and no idea what a
St Mary’s University MA Applied Linguistics FT: 1 year FT: £4,750 (EU) Sep 2:2 honours degree, three years’ teaching experience, Phillipson’s theory of ‘linguistic language graduates. verb is who happens to have been
Arts and Humanities* and ELT PT: 2–5 years £10,750 (O) Ielts 6.5 (or equivalent) imperialism’ to believe that. You State qualified European teach- born in the right country? To be
Sunderland, MA Tesol FT: 1 year FT: £4,750 (EU) Oct Honours degree (or equivalent), Ielts 6.5 (5.5 in all bands) merely need to know that, after ers of English, and those with honest, we doubt it.
University of DL: 18 months £11,500 (O) the Second World War, the British Celta or Trinity, also get jobs in But the brutal fact of the mat-
Education and Society DL: £6,250 (EU & O) and Americans signed the Ditch- ter is that parents don’t doubt it.
PT: £300/10 cred (EU) Adapted from an illustration by Chris Duggan UK language schools. They are
ley Park agreement, dividing the very common indeed at the lower They believe it because it has
Surrey, University of MA Tesol FT: 12 months FT: £6,000 (EU) Sep 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject, sphere of influence for language been the ongoing myth since
English and Languages PT: 36 months £14,500 (O) Ielts 7.0 end of the market and teachers
PT: £3,000 (EU) teaching between the two biggest from Central Europe keep much Charles Berlitz first came up
£7,300 (O) Anglophone countries. This alone of the residential summer school with the idea at the beginning
Sussex, University of MA English Language FT: 1 year FT: £7,700 (EU) Sep 2:1 in a relevant subject or 2:1 and teaching experience, did not cause English to overtake market going as experienced Brit- of the twentieth century. They
Language Studies Teaching PT: 2 years £15,100 (O) Ielts 7.0 (6.5 in each band) French as the language of diplo- ish teachers simply will not work believe it because the PLS have
Sussex, University of MA Applied Linguistics FT: 1 year FT: £7,700 (EU) Sep 2:1 in a relevant subject or 2:1 and teaching experience, macy or German as the language HIDDEN CONSEQUENCES Will Brexit give an unexpected boost to English as a lingua franca? for the low rates on offer. (British been marketing that message
English PT: 2 years £15,100 (O) Ielts 7.0 (6.5 in each band) of science, although it certainly teachers might argue that this keeps to them for over fifty years.
Swansea, University of MA Tesol FT: 1 year FT: £6,200 (EU) Sep 2:2 degree (or equivalent) in related subject, Ielts 6.5 helped. That was down to decline is currently a working language ans, because visas for non-EU of EU countries to privilege their pay artificially low, though we’ve They believe it because, after
Arts and Humanities PT: 2–3 years £13,700 (O) (6.0 in writing) or equivalent
of the British empire and increase of the EU, and will probably citizens may become easier. own nationals. It is as rife as never heard that complaint.) Judg- all, babies learn from moth-
Trinity College Dublin MPhil Applied FT: 1 year FT: €8,428 (EU) Sep 2:1 honours degree (or equivalent), Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in of US economic power. It does remain so, but there is no official But will more Polish or Roma- nativespeaker-ism and is perhaps ing by the British Council reports, ers. They believe it because
Arts, Humanities and Linguistics PT: 2 years €17,693 (O) all bands) highlight, however, the impor- status for the variant, no official nian teachers get jobs teaching more pernicious and harder to student complaints are low and, as when they went to school their
Social Sciences PT: €5,608 (EU)
€10,178 (O) tance given, particularly by the body that can declare that from a English in Spain or Italy, two of shift because it is to the advan- Wiktor will be pleased to know, the language teachers could often
UCL Institute of MA Tesol FT: 1 year FT: £7,925 (EU) Oct 2:2 in a relevant field, two years’ full time (or equiva- British, to the spread of the lan- certain date EU documents will the largest PLS markets? That is tage of national governments. inspectors often find that experi- barely speak the target language,
Education PT: 2 years £17,190 (O) lent part-time) language teaching experience post first guage. The promotion of English stop using the ‘u’ in colour or unlikely. Given the high levels Most European state edu- enced Central European teachers whatever that target language
Culture, Communication DL: 2–4 years PT: £3,930 (EU) degree is, after all, a fundamental role of accept ‘amn’t’ as a tag ending. of unemployment in southern cation systems discriminate outperform their recently trained happened to be.
and Media £8,470 (O)
both the British Council and the It wouldn’t work even if such Europe, there will be plenty of against non-nationals, regardless British counterparts. It is possible to create another
MA Tesol (pre-service) As above As above As above 2:2 in a relevant field BBC World Service, according to a declaration were made. Lan- unemployed Spanish and Ital- of their L1. The reason is simple It is, in fact, probably easier for foundation myth. It is possible
the Royal Charters under which guage change is evolutionary ian teachers of English to fill the – there is a massive over-supply. a white non-native speaker to get to argue for bilingualism, for
MA Applied Lingustics As above As above As above 2:2 in a relevant subject (or equivalent), ability to dem-
onstrate relevant interest in applied linguistics they were established. – it is useless to try and hold it vacancies. In Italy, for example, Italian- a job in British private language bilingual teachers, for bilingual
MA English Education As above As above As above 2:2 in English or a related area and/or substantial Wiktor is right in thinking back, but it is equally useless After all, the argument will qualified state school teachers of school than it is for a non-white schools. It is already happening. It
experience in an aspect of the field of English studies in that dramatic political change, to try to fast-track it. A variant go, if you are going to have English with Italian nationality British native speaker – another is called Clil and it doesn’t require
education, knowledge and experience of teaching Eng- such as we have seen recently form of English may emerge in non-native teachers, why not might take up to seven years to form of illegal discrimination. a teacher to ‘analyse, question or
lish as a curriculum subject to groups of young students
in the US and the UK, may well Europe, indeed as ELF may well privilege those who also speak get their first teaching job. Even So there is discrimination in the experiment with the medium’, as
Ulster University MA Tesol with Eras- FT: 1 year FT: £5,760 (EU) Sep Honours degree (or equivalent), Ielts 6.0 (or equiva- affect the political positions of be emerging, just as a variant of the local language fluently? if they could pass the competi- private language sector against Wiktor puts it – it requires them
Social Sciences mus-funded eight-week PT: 2 years £12,890 (O) lent) In some countries this is tive exams required for entry, any language teacher without the to teach science in it. Is it possible
Hungarian teaching
practice placement already the case. In many coun- what native English speaker, or right L1. And there is discrimi- that this bilingual project can take
University College MA Applied Linguistics FT: 1 year FT: €6,000 (EU) Sep 2.1 honours degreee which includes a language, Ielts Banners proclaiming ‘bilingual is best’ tries native-speakerism doesn’t indeed foreign national, would nation in most European state hold in private language schools?
Cork Linguistics 6.5 (5.5 in all bands) or equivalent will appear in the windows of some cover all non-natives but only wait around that long? sectors against any non-nationals, Certainly. Will it help skilled,
University of Central MA Tesol with Applied FT: 1 year FT: £6,300 (EU) Apr, Sep 2:2 honours degree, plus appropriate teaching experi- language school chains non-native non-nationals: good In the EU there may be a few, regardless of mother tongue, lan- experienced and trained multi-lin-
Lancashire Linguistics PT: 2 years £12,450 (O) ence or Celta/Tesol or equivalent, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in all local teachers are in demand in usually state qualified, native guage level or level of language gual non-native language teachers
Language and Global DL: 2–3 years PT: £1,025 per bands) Russia, much of central Europe, speaker teachers in fee-paying pri- knowledge or qualifications. And from another country to get a job?
Studies module (EU) both variants of English and the Latin emerged here in the Medi- and in Greece – as are native mary and secondary, to keep the remember, in most of Europe, the Almost certainly not.
Warwick, University of MA English Language FT: 1 year FT: £8,170 (EU) Oct Good 2:2 in a relevant discipline, Ielts 6.5 (6.5 in read- employment chances of people eval period, but it will not appear speakers. But qualified profi- parents happy. In the state sector, terms and conditions of state sec- Discrimination comes in
Applied Linguistics Teaching with special- PT: 2 years £18,380 (O) ing and writing)
isms in: English for PT: £4,085 (EU) who have them as their L1. fully formed the minute the UK cient L2 teachers of English apart from barely-paid teaching tor teachers are infinitely better many forms. But discrimination
Specific and Academic £9,190 (O) The political impact of Don- leaves the EU. struggle to find work. assistants, there are almost none. than those on offer in most private based on your passport may be
Purposes; English for ald Trump’s election on the job One thing will change immedi- Other countries will likely Is this illegal? Of course. Have language schools, especially when the hardest of all to shift. n
Young Learners; ICT; prospects of US teachers work- ately: unless the UK governments take the same route. Banners
Teacher Education; countries been sued? Yes. When
Testing and Assessment; ing outside the EU remains to accept free movement of EU proclaiming ‘bilingual is best’ a British teacher failed in his oral
Studies & Methods be seen, though any chance of citizens, the free movement of will appear in the windows of exam to teach in the French state
MSc Intercultural Com- FT: 1 year As above Oct 2:2 degree or equivalent in any field of study, it encouraging national govern- British English speakers to the some language school chains, system because the examiners
munication for Business PT: up to 4 evidence-based interest in and/or sensitivity to inter- ments to remove their ban on EU will be dramatically reduced. and native-speaker teachers may couldn’t understand his accent, he
& the Professions years cultural/multicultural issues, Ielts 6.5 (6.5 in reading
and writing) or equivalent non-native speakers from outside There will be fewer native speak- well be required to have a C1 went to the Court of Justice of the
their own nation states remains ers, trained or untrained to do jobs certificate in Spanish and Italian, EU (CJEU) and won. Very little
MPhil ELT and Applied FT: 2 years FT: £4,191 (EU) Oct Ielts 7.0 (with at least 7.0 in writing) or equivalent
Linguistics £16,230 (O) remote. China, as we reported in EU private language school as they already often have to in has changed.
PT: £2,515 (EU) last month, may well rule that (PLS), where native speakers Germany and France. Things are a little better out-
£9,738 (O) Filipinos are native speakers for remain the norm. But it is only in Native-speakerism is an ill- side European school systems.
Westminster, MA English Language FT: 1 year FT: £5,500 (EU) Sep, Jan 2:1 degree or equivalent experience in a relevant sub- visa purposes but it is unlikely to the PLS that the difference will informed myth with no reputable State further education colleges
University of and Linguistics PT: 2 years £12,500 (O) ject (eg English language, linguistics or Tesol), Ielts 6.5 extend that to Peruvians or Poles. hit hard, for it is the only sec- research to support it. Is it illegal and universities are often better
Social Sciences and (6.0 in each band), two academic references
Humanities Outside the EU, whatever the tor where ‘native-speakerism’ is under EU law? Yes. Does that at hiring on competence and not
government says goes. dominant. Lack of native speak- make any difference? No. Cer- on L1 or passport. But this is cer-
MA English Language As above As above As above As above
and Creative Writing Inside the EU, the Treaty of ers will have no impact in state tainly not unless the teachers tainly not always true, as the case
Amsterdam makes it illegal to schools systems, and only cause take legal action. Kostrzewski of the Italian lettori shows. These
MA English Language As above As above As above As above
and Literature discriminate against any EU a minor disruption in private describes in his polemic being native speaker language teachers
MA Tesol As above FT: £6,000 (EU) Sep Good degree or equivalent, Ielts 6.5 (with at least 6.0 citizen when hiring for jobs for education, vocational and adult inadvertently copied into an have been to the CJEU six times
£12,500 (O) in each component) or equivalent which they are ‘linguistically training and the universities. email from a potential employer demanding the same rights in
PT: £3,000 (EU) qualified’. So the most obvious In some countries the PLS describing him as ‘Unsuccessful, Italian universities as their Italian
£6,250 (O) and immediate impact comes have spent over fifty years selling Non-native, Odd use of lan- peers. They have won six times.
York, University of MA Applied Linguistics FT: 1 year FT: £6,650 (EU) Sep Relevant degree, one year full-time teaching experi- from Brexit. Since Britain will the benefits of native speakers. It guage.’ Thirty minutes later he This has been going on for 25
Education* for ELT £15,680 (O) ence, Ielts 7.0 (6.0 in each band)
no longer be a member of the is their unique selling point and was rejected for the job. Was the years and they are still fighting.
MA Applied Linguistics As above As above As above As above EU, the use of British English as they will have a hard time find- employer, if they were in the EU, Could a Polish or Norwegian
for Language Teaching
the standard variant may gradu- ing another business model. That acting illegally? Yes. Did Wiktor English language specialist get
MA Tesol As above As above As above As above
ally change. The idea that the means more jobs for the Irish sue them? Apparently not. a job as a lettore teaching Eng-
York St John University MA Applied Linguistics FT: 1–2 years FT: £5,700 (EU) Sep 2:2 degree or equivalent, Ielts 6.5 (6.0 in each band) remaining member states will and probably for the bilingual But native-speaking is not lish? No, only native speakers
English and Tesol PT: 2–5 years £10,000 (O) immediately replace it with Irish EU Nationals from Malta and the only issue. ‘Passportism’, to are allowed to take these illegal
Language PT: £2,850 (EU) English, American or even ELF Cyprus. It may even mean more coin a new phrase, is another. By contracts. Could they get the
£556/mod (O)
is, however, misplaced. English jobs for Americans and Canadi- passportism we mean the habit same job as an Italian lecturer?