Graduate Credits for Via Lingua Trainees
MATESOL: OnLine + OnCampus at Saint Michael's College

Via Lingua Certificate holders who have been accepted into the MATESOL Program at Saint Michael’s College will qualify for 6 credits (2 courses) of advance standing toward their MATESOL coursework. The 6 credits will be applied to waive coursework within the 36-credit MATESOL Program. Students choosing the OnLine + OnCampus option may complete the program in as little as 14 months, with two summers on campus and the remaining courses online (see course sequence below).

Via Lingua Program Details
Via Lingua's internationally recognized and externally moderated course is delivered through a combination of workshops, seminars and demonstrations, and is designed to ensure you take an active role in your development as an EFL teacher. With 130 hours of training, and including 10 hours of assessed teaching practice, the Via Lingua course exceeds all professional guidelines for the regulation of international TEFL certificate courses. This academic rigor, combined with our experiential training principles, makes Via Lingua one of the most practical global TESOL course providers in the world today. To achieve this aim, our course is delivered around established principles of foreign language teaching and equips you with the most up-to-date language teaching techniques. The cycle of "doing," "reflecting," "hypothesizing," and "testing" is employed in all aspects of this course. Throughout this process, you will be encouraged to make reference to the pre-course experiences of yourself and others in the group. The trainers recognize that the ideas and concepts which are explored with trainees should be firmly grounded in an awareness of established pedagogogical research and practice. Reference will be made during the sessions and in recommended reading tasks to the theoretical base underpinning the content of input sessions.
Course sequence - OnLine + OnCampus
On Campus - Summer 1 (9 credits)
- GSL 500 Foundations of Linguistics
- GSL 506 Master's Seminar
- GSL 542 Theory and Method in Second Language Teaching
Online - Fall/Spring (12 credits)
- GSL 520 Computer-Assisted Language Learning
- GSL 544 Teaching Reading and Writing in ESOL
- GSL 606 Curriculum Design
- GSL 689 Special Seminar in TESOL
On Campus - Summer 2 (9 credits)
- GSL 502 English Grammar
- GSL 543 Teaching Oral Skills in ESL/EFL
- GSL 620 Principles of Testing and Assessment in Language Teaching
Other MATESOL Programs and Sequences