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The ELT Department has well-established programs of postgraduate study. Over the past decades the department has served as an academic advisory and training centre for English language teachers at EMU as well as in the local education system. The vast majority of the English language teachers at EMU, many teachers in primary and secondary schools in TRNC have obtained their graduate degrees from the ELT Department.
Candidates for admission to the PhD graduate program should have an M.A. degree in a relevant discipline. All candidates must meet the requirements of the Institute of Graduate studies and Research of the university, as well as the departmental admission requirements. The medium of instruction in all courses is English, and all written work is assessed at standard international levels of academic English.
The PhD graduate program in ELT is designed to provide candidates with advanced background in the theory and practice in English language teaching. PhD candidates are required to take 8 courses, pass a Qualifying Examination and submit a Thesis to complete their PhD studies in ELT.
Admission Requirements
In addition to the general admission requirements of the Institute, applicants to English Language Teaching programs should demonstrate teaching experience, conference participation with paper presentation, other professional courses/activities/workshops attended, if any. Applicants will be required to submit a comprehensive application file. Foreign applicants will be assessed based on documents provided in accordance with the criteria established by the Department Graduate Committee. Local applicants will also be required to take a written and/or an oral exam and/or an interview administered by the Department Graduate Committee. Their written and/or oral performance will be assessed in terms of their knowledge of the most significant theoretical issues and practical concerns and their ability to discuss these in relation to English language education.
Faculty Research Interests
Methodology in ELT, Teacher education/training, Curriculum development, Materials development/ design, Instructional design, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Applied linguistics, Testing and evaluation in ELT, Research methodology – Action research, Ethnographic research, Multiple intelligences, CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning), Lexical borrowing, Language and ethnicity, Language change, Dialectology, Linguistic landscape, Teaching English to young learners, Corpus linguistics/ Corpus-based analysis, Language program evaluation and design, Problem-based learning, Project-based learning, Brain-based learning, Individual characteristics of language learners, Instructional discourse, Learner beliefs about language learning, Foreign language learning anxiety, Learner strategies, Assessment of reading, Error analysis, Interlanguage Communication strategies, Literature in ELT, Translation, Gender issues, Language acquisition technology in ELT
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