Describes the graduate program in intercultural communication offered by the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The program offers an alternative to the traditional master's program that has tended to focus on language and literature. (Author/VWL)

In this interview, Julian Edge talks to the interviewer about choices of language use available in professional development groups and in master's programs. (Author/VWL)

Discusses how the MATESOL program at Oklahoma State University has overcome the drawbacks of a single-site program by implementing a multiple-site practicum where students choose a primary site according to their particular area of interest or intended teaching job. Illustrates the feasibility of a multiple-site practicum and highlights its…

Explores competing pressures toward English for specific purposes accommodation to institutional exigencies and to a critical response to those exigencies. Discussion focuses on the design and implementation of an English for academic purposes course for a master's of Architecture students at a U.S. university. (Author/VWL)

A teacher reflects on experiences teaching an online master's in ESOL program, offering insights about how the mode made her teach in less traditional ways, deal with more probing questions, and reconceptualize the roles of formal and informal text. (Author/VWL)

Reports on the ways in which one teacher's teaching of trainee-teachers was adapted to reflect the principles she wanted them to explore in relation to their own work. Drawing on Vygotsky's concept of relational imitation and Dewey's notion of learning through direct experience, suggests ways of challenging the transmission paradigm and…

Examines the beliefs underlying promotion and development of self-directed learning and self-assessment, and the emphasis placed on these beliefs in an English language teaching master's degree program. The problems of tension and conflict between self-assessment and institutional assessment leading to certification, and the advantages and…

Draws on experience developing a Web-based master's program in TESOL for Newport Asia Pacific University (NAPU), a relatively new virtual university based in Newport Beach, California that offers graduate programs in TESOL, teaching Japanese as a second language, intercultural communication, and business administration. Discusses the challenges…