LINGUIST List 12.1626

Wed Jun 20 2001

Jobs: English/American lit/ling teachers, Jilin Univ.

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

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1. zhaowenxue, Teachers of English/American lit/linguistics at Jilin Univ,China

Qualification required:
Master degree at least or 3-5 year experience of teaching English to
university level English majors who are non-native speakers.

Areas required:
Humanities,social sciences,preferrablely English ,American
literature,linguistics.

Institution:
College of Foreign Languages,Jilin University,Changchun,China

Final Date of Application:
August,20001

Contact:zhaowxuemail.jl.cn

Mailing address for application:
 
 Prof.Zhao Wenxue 
 College of Foreign Languages 
 Jilin University
 10,Qianwei Road
 Chanchun,China,130012

We are looking for two teachers of English as a foreign language.Your
positions will mainly involve teaching the following coureses to
English majors in the College of Foreign Languages,Jilin University:

Enlish Composition,Conversation,Reading offerred to the first-year and
second-year students, American Literature,English
Literature,etc.,offered to the third-year and forth-year students.

Jilin University is one of the key comprehensive national universities
under the Ministry of Education of China.It is located in
Changchun,the capital of Jilin Province in Northeast China.For
detailed information about this university,please visit www.jlu.edu.cn
.The cost of living here is cheaper than in other main cities of
China,and you will find salary offered will afford you a comfortable
lifestyle.For example,beer costs 25 cents US per bottle,a decent meal
can be had for as little as 50 cents US.There is roughly 8 RMB to the
US dollar.

We welcome you to the university where you can meet a lot of friends
who are not only Chinese,but also scholars,teachers, students from
many parts of the world. Thereis a lot to see and do here in
Changchun.It is a great place to linger for a year or two while you
brush up on standard Chinese.It is a "City of Culture".There are quite
a few universities and well-known research institutes in it.Besides
,it boasts a film studio,the last emperor's palace and other artifacts
of the Japanese occupation,a car factory,Russian buildings and
everywhere Korean restaurants.Every night of the yare almost whithout
exception,there is tradional costume dancingin mostbparks and street
corners,not just for tourists,but for real. This is a real
place,ruggedly natural,a taste of the real China,a very large
widerness park nearby and several other quiet places not too far from
Beijing and yet pleasantly remote from the bustle of 100,000 other
foreig There are several hundred friendly foreigners in Changchun.They
have a well patronised bar run by a Frenchman close to MacDonalds and
KFC. For any further information,please contact me.I am looking
forward to hearing from you and seeing you here very soon!