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Escritura académica para elaborar reportes de investigación (en inglés)
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: NF-0301
Creditaje: 2

Descripción: The Academic Writing Workshop is offered by the MA Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language as a resource for students before their first semester courses.  The workshop will be conducted virtually through synchronous sessions lasting 50 minutes, each requiring five weekly hours of out-of-class work. Some of the weekly sessions may be taught asynchronously. If so, asynchronous sessions will be announced in advance.

This is a required course for students who must enroll in the leveling stage because their academic writing skills in the admission essay were slightly below the required level, with a score between 7.0 and 7.75. The main goal of the class is to provide key resources that can help students to expand their graduate-level writing skills, increase their awareness of issues affecting the quality of texts, and apply writing strategies for dealing with those issues. Workshop tasks include the analysis of available writing samples to identify improvement needs, practice on specific strategies, and the rewriting of texts in need of improvement. Students are expected to apply the knowledge and strategies learned to propose revisions of their own previously written academic texts. The course will be hosted on UCR’s platform Mediación Virtual, and synchronous sessions will be held on Zoom or any other platform designated by the Master’s program.

Docente: Mag. Randolph Zúñiga Coudin

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Temas de lingüística aplicada

Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0301
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: PF-0301 Topics in Applied Linguistics is a required, first-semester course for the MA Program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. This is an introductory course, which addresses key issues in the field of applied linguistics, relevant to pre-service and in-service language teachers. The aim of the course is for students to show understanding of basic concepts, theories, and pedagogic applications. The students will read and discuss about interrelated issues in basic areas of the field, as well as reflect on direct application and implication for the pedagogy of the language classroom. Additionally, the students will have opportunities to become acquainted with the names of well-known scholars and practitioners and their perspectives on language teaching. This class meets three hours per week during 16 weeks.

Docente: M.A. Xinia Rodríguez Ramírez

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Adquisición de una lengua extranjera 
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0302
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: This is an introductory course to the current state of second language learning studies designed for both in-service teachers and teacher trainees. It will provide students with a general understanding of the theoretical orientations on language learning that seem most productive and significant from the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives. It will also address nonlanguage issues that affect Second Language Acquisition. Finally, this course will provide a SLA theory that includes the most current and relevant issues that affect this complex field. Students will also carry out a literature review and develop a research proposal to relate these theories to a specific area of interest within the domain of SLA

Docente: Dr. Alonso Canales Víquez

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Integración de destrezas II: Lectura y escritura
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0308
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: Integration of Skills II: Reading and Writing is a required course for the Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. In this course, students will examine how reading and writing skills are acquired, developed, integrated, and evaluated in EFL instruction. A variety of approaches are addressed, and students are expected to take command of their professional enrichment, as well as to fully apply theory and techniques to Task-Based Language Teaching.

Docente: Mag. Tricia Henderson Carman

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Diseño de práctica
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0309
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: Diseño de Práctica Profesional is a required six-credit course for the MA program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.  This class meets four hours per week dur-ing the first semester.  The main goal of the course is for students to identify and apply the necessary tools to design an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course for a population at the University of Costa Rica (UCR).  The main tasks of this design (needs analysis, syllabus, sample lesson plan and materials, and assessment instru-ments) are completed in this course while the implementation, supervision, and eval-uation of the ESP course are carried out in the second semester in PF-0311 Práctica Profesional.  The students are expected to apply the knowledge acquired during their coursework to propose solutions to specific problems derived from the design experi-ence.  In total, the process finishes when the students’ final portfolio is submitted to the examining committee.  The course will be fully taught in the virtual modality and hosted on UCR’s platform Mediación Virtual and on Zoom.

Docente: Mag. Randolph Zúñiga Coudin

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Investigación en aula I 
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0312
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: Classroom Research is a required course in the M.A. in TEFL Program. It is a four credit course with three contact hours a week and about nine hours of out-of-class work. This course aims to provide students with knowledge of research methods and to guide them in the practical application of research principles in order to conduct high-quality research in language learning and teaching contexts.

Docente: Mag. Lena Barrantes Elizondo

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Curso optativo: Adaptación y elaboración de materiales educativos
Ciclo de la oferta: I-2025
Sigla: PF-0313
Creditaje: 4

Descripción: This 4-credit elective course is designed to provide prospective or in-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers with theoretical background and experience in evaluating, adapting, and developing materials for teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). Students will have the opportunity to bridge the gap between previously studied theories of language teaching and acquisition and the actual use of materials in the classroom.

Docente: Mag. Jennifer Céspedes Araya