{"id":19,"date":"2026-05-14T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:26:38","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Program at a Glance<br><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Credits:<\/strong>&nbsp;30<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Entry term:<\/strong>&nbsp;Primarily Fall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Duration:<\/strong>&nbsp;Normally 2 years, max. 3 years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong>&nbsp;Full-time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Class schedule:<\/strong>&nbsp;All classes are delivered after 4:30 p.m on weekdays.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tuition waiver<\/strong>: Currently, all MA-TEFL students hold 100% tuition exemption and follow the program <strong>free of charge<\/strong>. New candidates are offered waiver opportunities upon availability. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Delivery mode:<\/strong>&nbsp;On campus (face-to-face)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Application deadline:<\/strong>\u00a020 July 2026 (for Fall intake)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Structure<br><\/strong>The program consists of 30 credits of coursework and a thesis, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>3 core credit-bearing courses<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TEFL 531 Research Methods in Linguistics I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 532 Research Methods in Linguistics II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 555 Written Academic Discourse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>7 elective credit-bearing courses<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TEFL 506 Sociolinguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 556 Trends and Developments in Applied Linguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 501 Second Language Acquisition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 503 Linguistics: the Nature of Language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 510 Language Testing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 512 Issues in ESP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 521 EFL Methodology I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 524 EFL Methodology II<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 528 Curriculum Development and Evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 530 Materials Development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 551 Research Seminar I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 603 Instructional Supervision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2 non-credit components<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TEFL 550 Thesis Seminar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TEFL 554 Thesis Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2 university-wide General Education graduate courses<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GE 500 Research Methods and Academic Publication Ethics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GE 590 Academic Practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program at a Glance StructureThe program consists of 30 credits of coursework and a thesis, including:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}