Degrees Offered ◊ Doctor of Education
The Applied Linguistics Program offers an Ed.D. requiring 90 points beyond the baccalaureate for students wishing to pursue empirical research in linguistic analysis, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural and acquisitional pragmatics, language acquisition, language pedagogy, and language testing, assessment, or evaluation. Students who did not receive their M.A. or Ed.M. from Teachers College will be expected to have completed all the required courses, or their equivalent, from these degree programs.
Doctoral students have three types of requirements: concentration requirements, research methods requirements, and doctoral preparation requirements.
Concentration Requirements:
Students are required to take content courses in their concentration. The exact courses should be decided in consultation with their advisor.
Research Methods Requirements (15 points):To ensure that students have the skills to do scholarly research in an area of concentration, they are required to take a minimum of 15 points in research methods, statistics, and measurement. Depending on the type of dissertation, they may be asked to take additional courses in linguistic analysis, qualitative methods, or quantitative methods.
Three courses from the following:
- C&T 5502 Introduction to qualitative research in curriculum and teaching (2-3)
- HUD 4120 Methods of empirical research (3)
- HUDM 4050 Introduction to measurement (2-3)
- HUDM 4122 Probability and statistical inference (3)
- HUDM 5123 Linear models and experimental design (3)
- ITSF 4092 Qualitative research and evaluation in international education (3)
- ITSF 5000 Methods of inquiry: Ethnography and participant observation (or ITSF 5001 or 5002) (3)
- ORLJ 4009 Understanding behavioral research (3)
Other courses in consultation with an advisor.
Doctoral Preparation Requirements:
When doctoral students reach approximately 45 points in the program and have been at Teachers College for at least one year, they are required to register for and attend a doctoral seminar every semester.
Doctoral preparation involves three successive stages:
1. Exposure to basic research methods
2. Identification of a dissertation topic
3. Presentation of a prospectus
In order to progress through these stages, doctoral students are required to take a sequence of doctoral seminars at the 5500, 6500, 7500, and 8900 levels. Students begin to take these courses when they have reached approximately 45-50 points in the program and after they have been taking courses at Teachers College for a minimum of one year. After that, doctoral students are required to register for and attend doctoral seminars every semester.
Doctoral students are required to demonstrate research preparedness in a substantive area by passing the research paper at the 5500 level, the certification exam at the 6500 level, and the certification paper at the 6500 level.
Then, as evidence that they are able to carry out original research under the guidance of a doctoral committee, they must write a dissertation prospectus at the 7500 level as a part of the dissertation seminar and complete a doctoral dissertation while continuously registered for dissertation advisement at the 8900 level.
To prepare for these requirements, students will need to take one or more of the seminars in consultation with an academic advisor. These seminars occur at the 5500, 6500, 7500, and 8900 levels. All of these seminars are offered each semester. To determine which seminar to register for, consult an academic advisor.
- A&HL 5501 Research paper in applied linguistics (1-3)
- A&HL 5507 Research paper in applied linguistics and TESOL (1-3)
- A&HL 6501 Doctoral seminar in applied linguistics (1-3)
- A&HL 6507 Doctoral seminar in applied linguistics and TESOL (1-3)
- A&HL 7501 Dissertation seminar in applied linguistics (1-3)
- A&HL 7507 Dissertation seminar in applied linguistics and TESOL (1-3)
- A&HL 8901 Dissertation advisement in applied linguistics (0)
- A&HT 5505 Research paper: TESOL (1-3)
- A&HT 6505 Doctoral seminar: TESOL (1-3)
- A&HT 7505 Dissertation seminar: TESOL (1-3)
These seminars are ordinarily undertaken as soon as possible after completing the M.A. degree. Students should consult advisor as to which course or courses to enroll in during any particular semester.
Candidates should be in touch with the Office of Doctoral Studies to be certain of complying with the latest procedures, deadlines, and documents.
