LINGUIST List 5.1403

Wed 07 Dec 1994

Jobs: Phonetics, English lit, SLA, Pragmatics/psycholing

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1. Philip H. Miller, English phonetics position, at U. Lille, France
2. Gwyn Williams, Job: English literature in Thailand
3. "Tamara S. Al-Kasey", SLA positions
4. Francis Nolan, Job at Cambridge

The department of English at the University of Lille 3, Lille, France, is
urgently seeking to fill a temporary position as lecturer in English
phonetics, pending final administrative approval. Teaching could start as
early as January 1995, running through September 1995. The position may be
renewed through September 1996.
Preference will be given to candidates holding a PhD in English or General
Linguistics, though candidates who have not yet finished their dissertation
will also be considered.
Knowledge of French is useful, but not necessary.
Teaching duties consist in teaching English phonetics to 1st and 2nd year
students in the English department. The teaching load is 6-7 hours a week,
running through May. Exams are in June and September.

Contact Philip Miller, pmillerulb.ac.be, for further information.

 I've been asked to post this. I cannot help with info, but would be
willing to pass on queries. GW
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 A Position Available in June 1995
 at
 Department of English Language and Literature
 Faculty of Liberal Arts
 Thammasat University
 Bangkok 10200
 Thailand

Qualifications:
1. native speakers of English
2. MA or PhD in English, English Language and Literature, or Comparative
Literature

Responsibilities:
1. teaching undergraduate courses (at least 3 courses per semester or 9
hours per week; one of these courses is an advanced writing course)
2. giving academic advice and consultation to students and faculty members
3. giving lectures (occasionally) on specialized topic(s) to faculty
members and/or students

Information:
1. One year contract initially (renewable if performance is satisfactory)
2. Salary: 15,380 baht/month (US$1 = 25baht)
3. Housing allowance: 8,000 baht/month
4. Annual one month bonus
5. Airfare not provided

For application please write to:

Tragarn Kalchayanant
Head, Department of English Language and Literature
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Thammasat University
Prachan Road
Bangkok 10200
Thailand
FAX: (662) 224-8099

Position 1-tenure track
The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University invites
applications for one (1) tenured or tenure-track position at the
assistant or associate professor level to begin in the fall of 1995.
This position is for a specialist in Second Language Acquisition who has
a foreign language specialization and who is interested in helping to
build an interdisciplinary program which focuses on second language
acquisition with emphases on cognitive and social issues.

Preference will be given to candidates whose language of specialization
is Japanese with secondary consideration to those in French or German.
Responsibilities will include teaching a balance of undergraduate and
graduate courses in an appropriate area of specialization, some taught
in the foreign language. The ideal candidate will have a strong
commitment to undergraduate education, research interests at the
graduate level, interdisciplinary interests beyond their own field of
expertise, and enthusiasm for participating in a newly-approved doctoral
program in second language acquisition.

Requirements: Ph.D. in a foreign language, second language acquisition,
linguistics (with a specialization such as psycholinguistics or
sociolinguistics), psychology, or anthropology; at least three years
experience post Ph.D.; a strong publication and research record with
potential for outside funding; and evidence of effective undergraduate
teaching. Applicants should possess native or near-native fluency in
their language of specialization. Relevant computer and technological
skills an asset.

Procedure: Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum
vitae, copies of publications (not to be returned), and the names and
addresses of five prospective references to Chair, SLA Search Committee,
Department of Modern Languages, Baker Hall 160, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890. Deadline is January 13, 1995.
EEO/AA.

Position 2-Replacement
The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University invites
applications for a one semester or one year replacement position at the
senior level for the 1995--1996 academic year. This position is for a
specialist in Second Language Acquisition, preferably with a foreign
language specialization, who is interested in contributing to the growth
of an interdisciplinary program which focuses on second language
acquisition with emphases on cognitive and social issues.

Responsibilities will include teaching a total of four one-semester
courses including a balance of undergraduate and graduate courses with
the possibility of teaching in the foreign language. The ideal
candidate will be committed to undergraduate education with appropriate
experience and research interests at the graduate level along with
enthusiasm for participating in a newly-approved doctoral program in
second language acquisition.

Requirements: Ph.D. in a foreign language, second language acquisition,
linguistics (with a specialization such as psycholinguistics or
sociolinguistics), psychology, or anthropology; a strong publication and
research record and evidence of effective undergraduate teaching.
Relevant computer and technological skills an asset.

Procedure: Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum
vitae, and the names and addresses of five prospective references to
Chair, SLA Replacement Committee, Department of Modern Languages, Baker
Hall 160, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.
Deadline is January 13, 1995. EEO/AA.

The Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is
re-advertising the following Assistant Lecturership, first
advertised in July this year. Candidates who have already applied
will be considered after the new closing date, but may send
any new information to the Secretary of the Appointments Committee
whose address is at the end of the announcement below. New applicants
should follow the instructions in the announcement below.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
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UNIVERSITY ASSISTANT LECTURESHIP IN
PRAGMATICS AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
OR
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

University of Cambridge
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

University Assistant Lecturer to take up appointment not later than
1 October 1995. The person appointed will be required to teach and
conduct research in the field of either PRAGMATICS AND
ANTHOPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS or EXPERIMENTAL
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. The appointment will be for three years,
with the possibility of reappointment for two years. The statutory
limit of tenure of a University Assistant Lecturship is five years, but
all holders of the office of University Assistant Lecturer are
considered for possible appointment to the office of University
Lecturer during the course of their tenure.

The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Assistant
Lecturer is 13,601 UK pounds a year, rising by seven annual
increments to 18,855.

Further particulars are appended below. Applications, including
a curriculum vitae, the names, addresses, and telephone numbers
of three referees, and a full list of publications, should reach the
Secretary of the Appointments Committe at the
address below by 9 JANUARY 1995.
PLEASE NOTE that applicants responding to this announcement
should arrange for their referees to send their confidential reference
direct to this address by the same date.

The Secretary of the Appointments Committee
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
United Kingdom

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FURTHER PARTICULARS

The Department of Linguistics has an establishment of
seven academic staff, one professor and six lecturers or assistant
lecturers. Several people elsewhere in the University also
specialize in linguistics: for example, in computational linguistics
(in the Computer Laboratory) or in the history and structure of
individual languages, including English. Links between the
Department and other institutions in the University are in general
very strong.

The person appointed to this post would be expected to
teach for both the M.Phil. (postgraduate) and the Tripos
(undergraduate), and to supervise research students as appropriate.
The M.Phil. is a one-year course, examined by essays and a
dissertation: the teaching is therefore partly by lectures, etc. and,
especially in the Easter Term, by individual supervision. The
largest number of candidates in recent years has been 18; a more
usual figure is around 12. The M.Phil. can serve as the first year of
registration for the Ph.D., and the dissertation is therefore a very
important part of it.

Undergraduate papers are at present included in Part II of
the examinations in Modern & Medieval Languages, for which
candidates are taught in either the final or the second and the final
years. It is possible, in effect, to take Part II in Linguistics (e.g.
with the history of a language), apart from two language papers.
But the choice is free and very wide and a common pattern is for
candidates to offer one general paper in linguistics, which can also
be taken in other language faculties, in combination with literature
papers. Teaching in the University is primarily by lectures: under
the collegiate system individual supervision is the responsibility of
colleges. The person appointed might, perhaps in time, be offered
a college fellowship. At present five out of six of the Department's
lecturers have such fellowships, but they are not, it must be
understood, in the gift of the University's Appointments
Committee. Otherwise supervision would be requested, and paid
for, on an ad hoc basis.

The examinations in Modern & Medieval Languages are in
the throes of reform, and we expect a new system to be in force
from 2000. At the same time, we are ourselves developing a
proposal for a separate Tripos (set of examination papers) in
Linguistics, which would again be taken over the last or last two
undergraduate years. This has been accepted, in principle, by the
General Board, and we would hope that the person appointed
would be able to contribute to the detailed planning, ideally before
taking up the post. If so, there is a good chance that the new
examination might be phased in from 1995/96 onwards.

The Assistant Lectureship has become vacant through the
resignation of Dr. S.C. Levinson; at the same time Dr. P. Warren,
who has been teaching psycholinguistics is leaving Cambridge.
We therefore have a teaching need in both their fields of expertise.
An ability to teach sociolinguistics, at least at an introductory level,
might be an advantage, but is not essential.

One feature of the Cambridge system is that teaching
officers are entitled to sabbatical leave, subject to the approval of
the Faculty Board, one term or one year in seven. If there are any
queries about any other aspects of the system, or other queries of
any kind, the Head of Department (Professor Matthews) will be
very happy to answer them.