पाठ्यक्रम परिवर्तनशीलता

पाठ्यक्रमबारे सारश

This program is designed to produce graduates qualified to serve in specialist cross-cultural roles in Literacy, Sociolinguistics, Language Survey, Scripture Use or Ethnology. Organizations, such as SIL, PBT, LBT, and others recognize graduates of this program as having completed the minimum academic training requirements to serve in these disciplines. To complete a Master of Arts degree with major in Language Development (LD), every student is expected to complete the general core requirements and the requirements specific to his or her chosen concentration. All LD students are expected to complete the general core. Each concentration has a set of common courses, specific to that concentration, that are expected of all students working on a degree in that concentration. In addition, all of the concentrations provide for students to select either a thesis track or a non-thesis track (comprehensive exam) for completing their degree.

कार्यक्रमका खाकाहरू

This program enables the students to elect to seek the Master of Arts degree with major in Language Development without pursuing one of the pre-approved concentrations. The student must meet the general core requirements for the Language Development major, then may generally select from any course offered by GIAL to satisfy the concentration specific requirements for the degree. In order to select this option, the student should discuss it with a graduate advisor and must satisfy the conditions required of all formal concentrations in Language Development PLUS: A minimum of 50 percent of the courses incorporated into the concentration will be from the Language Development Department.

अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विद्यार्थीहरू प्रवेशको लागि आवश्यकता

Applicants should submit the following: completed application form, accompanied by a $25 non-refundable application fee, payable to GIAL; official copies of all post-high school transcripts where courses were taken toward a degree or pertaining to an expected GIAL study program; applicants with academic records from outside the United States will usually be required to send official transcripts directly from the educational institution to GIAL and to a credential evaluation service to verify U.S. equivalency; personal or character references from three individuals (non-family members); written statement of purpose; where appropriate for non-native speakers of English, evidence of satisfactory performance on the TOEFL exam (577 paper test; 233 computer test; 90/91 iBT) or on the IELTS test (6.5 overall band, with at least 6.5 on both academic reading and academic writing). They should also have completed an undergraduate degree at an accredited institution of higher education, with a cumulative GPA of 2.80 or better and satisfactory score on the GRE examination, with a combined verbal and quantitative score of at least 1000.

योग्यता

स्नातकोत्तर उपाधि

प्रदान गर्ने निकाय

Graduate Institute Of Applied Linguistics

विभागको नाम

Language Development Department