在此要强调，大家在了解这个专业的时候可能也看到了TEFL专业，那在此我也介绍一下，TEFL是指Teaching English as a Foreign Language(作为外语的英语教学)，目前基本上tesol、tefl和tesl证书都已经被混用了，三者没有被严格的区别，都被作为外教资格证来看待。所以大家在选择专业时，也不用太强调这其中的区别了。
那TESOL专业到底要学些什么呢?我用各国大学的专业课程设置来为大家做个简单的对比。
沙巴体育官网：：宾夕法尼亚大学&哥伦比亚大学
宾夕法尼亚大学
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
哥伦比亚大学
• 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
英国：曼彻斯特大学&莱斯特大学
曼彻斯特大学
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
莱斯特大学
• 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