I want to be an English teacher in the
future because many students in China
they are learning English now and I love
teaching
my name is Wong Satine I'm from China
I'm a master student in University of
Aberdeen and my major is K so we try to
cover a wide range of subjects within
the TESOL degree obviously at the heart
of that is teaching practice the other
side is acquisition understanding
acquisition
how do people wear them languages how do
children learn languages because some
people who do the T cell degree won't be
dealing with adults also many people
don't come from an English language
bottling mystics background and we offer
courses on how to analyze English and
also about different varieties of
English I don't think you would find an
offer quite as intellectually novel and
intellectually stimulating certainly in
the British Isles in many places it's
almost totally focused on teaching and
others is quite hard-line theoretical
both feign ways to do it but what we do
is we bring it together in a unique
mixture Teasle courses include not only
theory courses it also includes the
practical courses like peer teaching
in my case because I'm already an
experienced teacher we decided to make
it bit more challenging for me so
instead of teaching my peers they put me
in the Language Center here at the
university to teach live classes it was
great fun and for me was it was a new
experience because it was teaching
English of academic purposes which I
didn't have much experience off before
we offer the opportunity during the
summer either to do a dissertation or to
do a portfolio many people choose to do
the dissertation because it's seen as
the academic route but to be honest with
you many people who want to get a
masters and Teasle aren't that
interested in the academic path they're
interested in what this degree will help
them with when it comes to employment
there is a support mechanism for
everybody who's part of the TESOL degree
right the way through the second
semester I see all the students once a
week now this is normally for about half
an hour some people need less some
people need more but I make sure they're
doing okay the lecturers have been
brilliant they support us with finding
materials for our Simon guiding us with
the writing that we need to do and we
have a lot of discussion about what we
should be focusing on we also make sure
in the early part of the degree that
people are settling in it can of course
be difficult moving to a new country
even moving to a new city can be
difficult this is my first time to study
abroad this is a totally new environment
for me
before I came here I was afraid of what
if I couldn't understand the teachers in
classes what if I couldn't adapt to the
totally new environment but actually
everything was fine
a master's in TESOL leads you towards a
profession and probably one of the most
profitable professions that are I think
anybody who did this degree and got a
good end result would have difficulty
not getting a job for me probably the
next natural step is to move into
teacher training or maybe into EFL
publishing the master's course give me a
chance to explore which direction am I
going next if you come from a country
like China not only do you get the
opportunity to study for a year in a
totally English language environment but
you're also being given a qualification
which is worth something in your home
country because you have proved that not
only are you a good teacher but also
that your English is over stand-up that
you can pass and pass well I really
enjoy studying here the campus is so
beautiful and ancient and the people
here are really friendly I'm really
happy I made this decision to come here
to study
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