Study a Master of Applied Linguistics – MAppLing

The Master of Applied Linguistics provides professionals in all areas of second-language teaching (including Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) with a combination of professional and research skills which is increasingly important in both domestic and international settings.

 

Get real-world skills

You’ll use theories, methods and problem-based approaches that address real-life language issues in our globalised, and digitally mediated world.

 

Draw on Massey’s research strengths

 

Massey’s research strengths include:

• heritage language learning

• mother tongue maintenance

• online second-language communities

• distance/online language learning

• sociocultural adjustment of international students and their teachers to their presence in New Zealand universities

• language learning and emotion

• bi/multilingualism

• oral proficiency

• teaching and assessment

• language education policy.

 

Research opportunities

In the Master of Applied Linguistics you’ll complete a research report (60 credits) or thesis (120 credits). Recent areas of student research include:

• investigating needs of non-income-earning students in community English classes

• the development of teacher identity among student teachers in Thailand

• navigating cultural conflict and dissonance in the immigrant ESL classroom

• the role of motivational beliefs in self-regulated learning for Kanji acquisition

• vocational tertiary students’ imagined experiences of learning English with native speakers in an Indonesian rural setting

• perceptions of Bhutanese students, parents and teachers of their learning progress in a New Zealand secondary school

• a case study of teacher beliefs and student attitudes on L1 use in multilingual classrooms.