什么是TESOL?TESOL是“Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages” 的縮寫,中文翻譯是“對外英語教學(xué)”。這個專業(yè)是英語語言學(xué)與教育學(xué)/教學(xué)法的結(jié)合，在國外大學(xué)里大多將這個專業(yè)設(shè)置在語言學(xué)院或者教育學(xué)院。主要是針對母語是非英語國家的人的英語教育。由于TESOL的教學(xué)對象是“對外”，所以其教學(xué)方法不僅在于對英語本身的教育，特別考慮到學(xué)習(xí)者的母語和文化背景。
    在此要強(qiáng)調(diào)，大家在了解這個專業(yè)的時候可能也看到了TEFL專業(yè)，那在此我也介紹一下，TEFL是指Teaching English as a Foreign Language(作為外語的英語教學(xué))，目前基本上tesol、tefl和tesl證書都已經(jīng)被混用了，三者沒有被嚴(yán)格的區(qū)別，都被作為外教資格證來看待。所以大家在選擇專業(yè)時，也不用太強(qiáng)調(diào)這其中的區(qū)別了。
    那TESOL專業(yè)到底要學(xué)些什么呢?我用各國大學(xué)的專業(yè)課程設(shè)置來為大家做個簡單的對比。
    美國：賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)&哥倫比亞大學(xué)
    賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)
    EDUC 525 Fieldwork in Language in Education
    EDUC 527 Approaches to Teaching English and Other Modern Languages
    EDUC 537 Educational Linguistics
    EDUC 546 Sociolinguistics in Education
    EDUC 563 Internship, Seminar, Thesis: TESOL
    EDUC 661 Language Diversity and Education
    EDUC 670 Second Language Acquisition
    EDUC 675 Structure of English
    哥倫比亞大學(xué)
    • Second language teaching methodologies
    • Teaching of the language skills
    • Content area education for ESL students
    • ESL/EFL materials development and curriculum design
    • Language teacher education
    • Language teacher observation and supervision
    • Second language acquisition
    • Second language assessment
    • Classroom interaction
    • Second language teaching and literacy
    • Language program evaluation
    • Technology and language teaching and learning
    英國：曼徹斯特大學(xué)&萊斯特大學(xué)
    曼徹斯特大學(xué)
    EDUC70220 (70220) Evaluation and Design of Educational Courseware
    EDUC70510 (70510) Multimedia: Design and Development
    EDUC60081 (MD6081) Practical Application in an Organisational Setting
    EDUC60372 (MD6372) Building the Helping Relationship
    EDUC60381 (MD6381) Research Methods
    EDUC60392 (MD6392) Designing Organisational Change
    EDUC60451 (MD645) Research Methods in Educational Leadership and Management
    EDUC60450 (MD6450) Research Methods in Educational Leadership and Management
    EDUC60472 (MD647) Leading for Learning
    EDUC61542 (MD6542) Individual and Organisational Learning & Change
    EDUC60552 (MD6552) Consultancy Skills
    EDUC70021 (MD702) Approaches, Methods and Techniques
    EDUC70032 (MD703) Courseware Development for Distributed Learning
    EDUC70041 (MD704) Language Education as Intercultural Practice
    EDUC70052 (MD705) Teaching and Learning Online
    EDUC70061 (MD706) Language Learning and Technology
    EDUC70091 (MD7090) Psychology of Language Learning
    EDUC70100 (MD7100) Developing Researcher Competence
    EDUC70132 (MD7132) The Education of Language Teachers
    EDUC70341 (MD7341) School Effectiveness
    EDUC70351 (MD7351) Leading Educational Change and Improvement
    EDUC70362 (MD7362) Contemporary Issues in Educational Leadership and Policy Development
    EDUC70382 (MD7382) School Improvement
    EDUC70941 (MD7941) Difference in Education
    EDUC70152 (Null) Explorations in Language
    萊斯特大學(xué)
    • Language teaching in action: principles and practice
    • Second Language Teaching and Learning
    • The Structure of English: Grammar Awareness, Phonology and Pronunciation Teaching
    • Language, Discourse and Society
    • Two out of a range of options (options offered will change from year to year)
    • Professional Enquiry in TESOL or a dissertation