Master of Arts in Education (Language and Literacy Education)
This graduate program is designed to upgrade and update the knowledge and competencies of language and reading teachers. It is laddered on to the DLLE program.
Objectives
The program aims to:
- Develop more qualified and highly-trained teachers of language and reading at all levels;
- Enable elementary and high school teachers as well as teacher educators to upgrade their knowledge and competencies in language and reading instruction;
- Provide continuing education for teachers who do not have the proper background and training but are assigned to teach language and reading;
- Equip school administrators, school supervisors, and literacy trainers with the knowledge and competencies in organizing, implementing, and evaluating school and community-based language and literacy programs; and
- Enable curriculum developers and textbook writers to acquire updated knowledge and strategies in the development of language and reading instructional and assessment materials.
Mode of Instruction
All courses are delivered by DE mode.
Admission Requirements
Applicants must have a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Education (BSE or BSEED) degree with a major in English studies (including literature) or reading or language education.
Applicants are admitted provisionally until completion of 9 units and upon earning a general weighted average of 2.0 or better within the first year.
Curriculum
The Master’s program consists of a total of 40 units for the non-thesis option (with a comprehensive examination) and 39 units for the thesis option.
Graduates of the Diploma program who are accepted into the Master’s program may have 12 units (9 units core courses and 3 units major elective) of their Diploma courses credited to the Master’s. The additional course work includes 6 units of additional core courses, 9-12 units of additional major electives, and 6 units of research courses.
Students who are allowed direct entry into the Master’s program shall take a total of 15 units of core courses, 12 units of major electives for thesis option (15 units for non-thesis), and 6 units research courses. They have the option of doing a 4-unit Special Problem course and taking the comprehensive examination, or of doing a 6-unit Master’s thesis.
Additional core courses (15 units)
| EDL 205 | Language Acquisition Theories, Principles and Research | (3 units) |
Psychological and social forces in second language acquisition, techniques of contrastive analysis, developmental studies including error analysis (Prerequisite: EDL 201 or consent of instructor) |
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| EDR 210 | Trends in Reading Instruction | (3 units) |
Approaches, methods, and techniques in reading instruction (Prerequisite: EDR 201 or consent of instructor) |
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| Also included are the core courses listed under the DLLE program on p.11. | ||
| Additional major electives (12 units for thesis option / 15 units for non-thesis option) | ||
| EDL 221 | Second Language Teaching | (3 units) |
Approaches, methods, techniques, and their application (Prerequisite: EDL 205/211/equivalent or consent of instructor) |
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| DLL 210 | Literary Theory and Critical Practice | (3 units) |
| Literary theory for elementary and secondary school teachers with emphasis on the use of various critical approaches in the analysis of specific texts drawn from Philippine and World Literature | ||
| EDR 235 | Development of Instructional and Assessment Materials in Reading | (3 units) |
| (Prerequisite: EDR 210 or consent of instructor) | ||
| EDR 252 | Early Reading Intervention Programs | (3 units) |
| Theory and practice in individualized diagnosis and remediation of reading difficulties among children (Prerequisite: EDR 210) | ||
| EDR 278 | Practicum in Corrective Reading | (3 units) |
Supervised experience in diagnostic-corrective reading programs (Prerequisite: EDR 235, 220 or 221 or consent of instructor) |
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| Also included are the major electives listed under the DLLE program on p.11. | ||
| Research courses (6 units) | ||
| EDRE 201 | Methods of Educational Research | (3 units) |
Research methods, concepts, processes, and tools as these relate to educational problems |
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| EDRE 231 | Statistical Methods Applied to Education | (3 units) |
| Fundamentals in statistical theory; application of statistical theories and techniques to the solution of educational problems; designs and analysis of statistical investigations. | ||
| Thesis option | ||
| EDUC 300 | Thesis | (6 units) |
| Non-thesis option | ||
| EDUC 298 | Special Problem in Education | (4 units) |
| Comprehensive Examination | ||
