Foreign Language Education

Master of Arts

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Campus address: George I. Sánchez Building (SZB) 528, phone (512) 232-4080; campus mail code: D6500

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Foreign Language Education, 1 University Station D6500, Austin TX 78712

URL: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/coe/depts/ci/programs/fle/

Facilities for Graduate Work

Students in foreign language education have access to research facilities in a large number of academic departments in the colleges of communication, education, and liberal arts.

Students have access to extensive print and online resources in the Perry-Castañeda Library and in specialized libraries. In addition to textbooks and pedagogical material, the collections include titles in most classical and modern languages, translations of many important works, and secondary literature on the works and their social and literary contexts. 

Other research sites include the Texas Language Center, ESL Services, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, and the Learning Technology Center.

Areas of Study

The foreign language education program offers specializations leading to the Master of Arts degree in teaching English as a foreign or a second language, and the teaching of world languages, including Asian and Middle Eastern languages. Each student’s degree program includes courses from relevant disciplines such as communication studies, curriculum and instruction, educational psychology, and linguistics, as well as in the language of specialization. It may be concerned with language teacher training, research in language teaching and second language acquisition, second language assessment and program evaluation, technology in language teaching, and theory and techniques of language materials production. Individual courses of study are arranged within these areas in accordance with the student’s abilities, interests, and career goals.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Carl S Blyth Hans C Boas Rebecca M Callahan Corinne Petra Crane Maria E Franquiz Thomas J Garza Mohammad Ghanoonparvar Ian F Hancock Jacqueline M Henkel Frederick G Hensey Michael C Hillmann Elaine K Horwitz Orlando R Kelm Sara E Kimball Dale A Koike Min Liu Carol H MacKay

Anna E Maloch Richard P Meier Mohammad A Mohammad Deborah K Palmer Diana Christine Pulido Paul E Resta Cinzia Russi Veronica G Sardegna Diane L Schallert Jurgen K Streeck Marilla D Svinicki Per K Urlaub Luis Urrieta Anita L Vangelisti Helena Woodard Mary J Worthy