Tag: applied linguistics

U Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in Multilingual Workplaces (USA)

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Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in Multicultural Workplaces, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI, USA. Deadline: review begins 9 November 2026; open until filled.

The Department of Second Language Studies seeks to hire a scholar who conducts research on multilingualism in professional / vocational / employment contexts. The person filling this vital role will contribute to the scholarly mission of the department through research, teaching, and service focused on how languages are used in workplaces and institutions outside of formal education and how people are prepared for a multilingual workforce. Ideal candidates will have (a) a background in sociolinguistics, language for specific or vocational purposes, forensic linguistics, or language policy and (b) interest in networking with local services, such as the state Office of Language Access or court interpreter services, in order to build capacity for language access for all residents of the state.

U Nottingham Ningbo: Applied Linguistics and ELT (China)

“JobAssistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and ELT, University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China. Deadline:  9 October 2026.

The School of Education and English is now looking for an ambitious, talented, and experienced academic with a passion for teaching and a well-developed research profile to join its team of scholars in the field of Applied Linguistics, with special emphasis on quantitative analysis and language acquisition. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching, curriculum development and supervision within the undergraduate English and Applied Linguistics programme as well as the following PGT programmes: MA in Applied Linguistics and MA TESOL. There will also be opportunities to provide supervision for growing numbers of PhD and EdD students. The successful candidate will be expected to take a lead role in collaborative research projects, as well as conducting original research of their own that results in presentations and publications of a high international standing in relevant and recognised areas of applied linguistics and ELT.

U Leuven: Applied Linguistics / Intercultural Communication (Belgium)

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Tenure-track professor in Applied Linguistics with a focus on Intercultural Communication, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Deadline: 19 February 2026.

The Linguistics Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time tenure-track professor (ZAP) in Applied Linguistics: Intercultural Communication. The professorship will commence on 1 September 2026.

They are looking for a motivated lecturer and researcher (m/f/x) to be part of the Linguistics Research Unit and the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven Brussels. The Linguistics Research Unit, which counts 50 senior and 100 junior researchers, is renowned for its internationally oriented synchronic and diachronic linguistic research across a wide range of languages, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Members of the research unit at the Brussels campus teach in the Bachelor of Applied Linguistics, the Master in Journalism, and the Master of Multilingual Communication: Cross-Cultural Communication Management. The researcher will contribute to the research profile of this latter master’s program, which focuses on the complex interaction between language, culture, and communication in international and multilingual contexts.

U Nottingham Ningbo: Applied Linguistics (China)

“JobAssistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China. Deadline: 12 December 2025.

The School of Education and English is looking for an ambitious, talented, and experienced academic with a passion for teaching and a well-developed research profile to join its team of scholars in the field of Applied Linguistics. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching, curriculum development and supervision within the undergraduate English and Applied Linguistics and the MA in Applied Linguistics programmes, as well as providing wider supervision for a growing numbers of PhD/EdD students. The successful candidate will also be expected to take a lead role in collaborative research projects, as well as conducting original research of their own that results in presentations and publications of a high international standing in relevant and recognised areas of applied linguistics.

Applied Linguistics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other

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Special Issue: Applied Linguistics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Encountering the Other, Applied Linguistics Review, 8(2-3), 2024.

Guest Editors: Magdalena Kubanyiova and Angela Creese

1 Kubanyiova, M., & Creese, A. (2024). Introduction: Applied linguistics, ethics and aesthetics of encountering the Other.

2 Beiler, I. R., & Dewilde, J. (2024). “When we use that kind of language…someone is going to jail”: Relationality and aesthetic interpretation in initial research encounters.

3 Creese, A. (2024). The humanism of the other in sociolinguistic ethnography.

4 Williams, Q. (2024). Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: Stancetaking on others.

5 Krause-Alzaidi, L.-S. (2024). Becoming response-able with a protest pacard: White under(-)standing in encounters with the Balck German Other.

6 Kubanyiova, M. (2024). (Im)possibility of ethical encounters in places of separation: Aesthetics as a quiet applied linguistics praxis.

7 Brizić, K. (2024). Unsettled hearing, responsible listening: Encounters with voice after forced migration.

Eurac Research: PhD Studentship in Applied Linguistics / Linguistic Ethnography (Italy)

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PhD Studentship in Applied Linguistics / Linguistic Ethnography, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. Deadline: 31 March 2024.

The Multilingualism and Plurilingualism research group at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research is looking for a PhD student in applied linguistics/linguistic ethnography, who will join the team of the research project EduLiM and conduct PhD research within the project. The ideal start date for the position would be June 1st 2024.

EduLiM stands for Educational Transitions in the Context of Linguistic Minoritization and is a project funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen South Tyrol in the framework of the Programme “Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2022” and carried out in partnership with a research team at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. The project takes a linguistic-ethnographic approach to examining the role of language in children’s transition from early childhood education (ECE) to primary school in German-language education in South Tyrol. It combines critical educational and sociolinguistic theories and is designed as a multi-sited ethnography conducted in first-year primary school classes and with children’s families. In this way, EduLiM aims to create new knowledge on (language) education policies and practices related to transitions, on collaboration across institutional boundaries and between families and institutions, and on different ways in which children are constructed as linguistically minoritized.

The selected candidate will develop their PhD project within EduLiM and contribute to the project activities in this manner.

Eurac Research: Postdoc in Applied Linguistics / Linguistic Ethnography (Italy)

PostdocsPostdoctoral Fellowship in Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Ethnography, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy. Deadline: 31 March 2024.

The Multilingualism and Plurilingualism research group at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Eurac Research is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in applied linguistics/linguistic ethnography, who will co-lead the research project EduLiM with the project partners at the University of Innsbruck and join the research team of the project M-Spaces. The ideal start date for the position would be June 1st 2024.

Both projects explore the role of multilingualism and language education in early childhood with a linguistic ethnographic approach. EduLiM, which stands for Educational Transitions in the Context of Linguistic Minoritization, is funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen South Tyrol in the framework of the Programme “Research Südtirol/Alto Adige 2022”. The project examines the role of language in children’s transition from early childhood education (ECE) to primary school in German-language education in South Tyrol. The project combines critical educational and sociolinguistic theories and is designed as a multi-sited ethnography conducted in first-year primary school classes and with children’s families. In this way, EduLiM aims to create new knowledge on (language) education policies and practices related to transitions, on collaboration across institutional boundaries and between families and institutions, and on different ways in which children are constructed as linguistically minoritized. M-Spaces, which stands for Researching and Transforming Multilingual Spaces, explores multilingualism and language education in pedagogical professionalization for ECE. It involves students of a vocational secondary school for ECE in Carinthia and in-service ECE teachers in Carinthia and South Tyrol in generating insights on pedagogical professionalization for ECE in linguistically heterogeneous migration societies.

The selected candidate will co-lead EduLiM from the outset of the project and will mainly be responsible for the family ethnography. Within M-Spaces, the selected candidate will contribute to the analysis of data generated on ECE teachers’ experiences with multilingualism in their pedagogical practice and to the dissemination of findings.

Maynooth U: Applied Linguistics (Ireland)

“JobAssistant Professor / Lecturer in Applied Linguistics (English) School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland. Deadline: 2 July 2023.

Maynooth University is seeking an excellent academic to join their staff as an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics with a specialism in English-language Pedagogy. Given the SMLLC’s plans for strategic development in the coming years, they would be especially interested in candidates whose research focuses on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), English-Medium Education (EME), TESOL, Integrated Content and Language Learning in Higher Education (ICLHE), TESL, and/or the intercultural dimensions of teaching of, and through, English in a higher-education context.

The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research, and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the School and to undertake teaching duties on the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, as well as the supervision of Master’s and PhD students.

U Southampton: Applied Linguistics (UK)

“JobLecturer in Applied Linguistics, Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK. Deadline: 13 June 2023.

The Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of Southampton invites applications to a Lectureship in Applied Linguistics with an expertise in digital communication available from 1st September 2023 on a permanent basis. They are seeking to complement the department with a new appointment to enhance their research and teaching profile in the area of digital communication or adjacent specialisms such as discourse studies, linguistic ethnography, linguistic anthropology or sociolinguistics specialising on communication and discourse in digital media.

You will join the vibrant and diverse Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics that has recently launched the unique interdisciplinary BA Language Culture and Communication, combining the study of languages with ethnography, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, as well as digital and non-digital communication. The program is based within the School of Humanities, which has recently invested in Digital Humanities to grow expertise and infrastructure in digital humanities approaches across humanities disciplines.

CFP Applied Linguistics & Professional Practice (UK)

ConferencesCall for Papers: 13th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 4-6 September 2023. Deadline: 28 February 2023.

The International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP) aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, especially language and communication research and professional domains (e.g., business, organization studies, education, banking, health care, therapy, journalism, law, social care and welfare, immigration and border control, police work, translation and interpreting) to share ideas and discuss innovations and interventions.

ALAPP 2023 is open to proposals that broadly fall within the scope of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice Studies. Organizers welcome submissions on a wider range of themes, including:

  • Language, communication and the professions
  • Institutions and professions
  • Expertise and professional practice
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in professional contexts
  • Multimodality in professional practice
  • Professional practice, discourse and the new media
  • Interpreting and translation in institutional/professional settings
  • Language awareness and reflexivity in the professions
  • Communication training for professionals
  • Professional practice and communication in the age of globalization
  • Research Methodologies
  • Collaborative research across professional boundaries
  • Challenges in communicating research findings