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CFP Applied Linguistics & Professional Practice (UK)

Call 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

U Melbourne: PhD Studentship in Applied Linguistics (Australia)

Ph.D. Studentship in Applied Linguistics, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Deadline: 25 November 2022.

The University of Melbourne invites applications from suitably and highly qualified candidates for a PhD scholarship in the Applied Linguistics discipline, with a specific focus on sociolinguistics issues. The PhD scholarship is part of a larger Australian Research Council DECRA project led by Dr Trang Nguyen. The aim of the DECRA project is to investigate migrant youth’s experiences and management of linguistic discrimination, and its impact on their linguistic citizenship, in the regional Australian context. The successful applicant must commence by 27 February 2023, and will be enrolled in the School of Languages and Linguistics, the University of Melbourne. The candidate will pursue an independent research project under the supervision of Dr Trang Nguyen and Professor John Hajek. The candidate will join the DECRA team and is expected to actively contribute to the wider project, while also responsible for the development of their own research agenda.

Queen’s U Belfast: TESOL & Applied Linguistics (Northern Ireland)

Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Deadline: 11 July 2022.

The School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (SSESW) at Queen’s University Belfast, is currently seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to the post of Lecturer in TESOL & Applied Linguistics.

The successful applicant will undertake research relevant to Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics in line with the school’s research strategy, to teach at postgraduate level, undertake scholarly activity and to contribute to the school’s administration/outreach activity, in the subject area of (TESOL) and Applied Linguistics and particularly in relation to the School’s TESOL, Language Education, and Applied Linguistics courses.

City U Macau: Several Positions in Applied Linguistics & English (China)

Several positions are available in Applied Linguistics & English Studies, City University of Macau, Macau, China. Deadline: 21 May 2022.

1. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & English Studies

2. Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics & English Studies

3. Professor, Applied Linguistics and English Studies

In each case, they are looking for at least two areas of the following aspects of Applied Linguistics and English Studies: Applied Linguistics; AI for linguistic studies; Multimodality learning; Corpus Linguistics; Teaching languages to young learners; language development; Psycholinguistics; Intercultural Communication; Second language acquisition; Research methods in social sciences; Multilingual education; translation; speech and language therapy; language disability.

U Warwick: TESOL and Intercultural Communication – 2 positions (UK)

2 positions: Assistant Professor of TESOL, and Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, UK. Deadline: 14 March 2022.

University of Warwick is looking for two experienced and creative Senior Teaching Fellows (Assistant Professor – Teaching) who will contribute to the department’s teaching provision at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and the support activities associated with these.

Assistant Professor of TESOL:

You will be an applied linguist with a strong academic and professional background in TESOL who is able to deliver master’s modules on language testing and assessment and contribute to teaching in one or more of the following areas: discourse analysis, curriculum and materials development, online pedagogies. You will have a PhD in a relevant field or be very close to completion and you will have experience of teaching at university level.

2. Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication

You will be an academic with a professional background in intercultural communication who is able to deliver master’s modules on quantitative research methodology and contribute to teaching and master’s research supervision in two or more of the following areas: intercultural competence assessment, cross-cultural psychology, cross-cultural marketing, international development. You will have a PhD in a relevant field or be very close to completion and you will have experience of teaching at university level.

Steven Darian Profile

Steven Darian is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

Steven Darian

Darian’s Ph.D. is from New York University, in Applied Linguistics. He has used language as his Archimedes fulcrum, to dig into everything from science to religion. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. He has been lucky enough to have had 3 Fulbrights, and has lived, worked, and studied in 9 or 10 countries. He has written a dozen books, both scholarly and popular; the last one being The Wanderer: Travels & Adventures Beyond the Pale. The next, The Heretic’s Book of Death & Laughter: The Role of Religion in Just About Everything, is due out later this year.

Work for CID:

Steven Darian wrote a guest post, and described his Fulbright experience in Uzbekistan, 1997-1998.

Nadia Abid Profile

Nadia Abid is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax (FLSH Sfax), Tunisia.

She obtained a joint PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Sfax, Tunisia and the University of Lorraine, France in 2012. She is currently a member of LAD (Laboratory on Approaches to Discourse, FLSH Sfax) and a coordinator of a Professional Master’s program in English for Communication.

She teaches TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), intercultural communication, ESP (English for Specific Purposes), TEYL (Teaching English to Young Learners), and theories of learning.

In her research, Nadia is interested in intercultural language learning and related issues including: the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in textbooks and virtual exchanges, the evaluation of the intercultural and global dimensions of EFL textbooks, learners’ attitudes, learners’ identity (re)construction in different intercultural contexts such as EFL classes, study abroad programs, and virtual exchanges.

Key publications

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2020). The promotion of the good intercultural speaker through intercultural contacts in a Tunisian EFL textbook. Language and Intercultural Communication, 20(1), 37-49.

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2020). Tunisian students’ identity development in study abroad. I-LanD Journal: Negotiation of L2 Identities in the Age of Transnational Mobility. DOI: 10.26379/IL2020001_008.

Abid, N., & Moalla, A. (2021). The intercultural speaker across time: A study of Tunisian EFL textbooks. Compare: A Journal of comparative and international education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2020.1853506.

Abid, N., Moalla, A., & Omidvar, I. (2020). The use of a blog for the development of intercultural communicative competence: The case of Tunisian and American students. SHS Web of Conferences 88, 02011. LLT Forum. https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208802011.

Work for CID:
Nadia Abid reviews translations into Arabic.

U Queensland: Applied Linguistics (Australia)

Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. Deadline: 11 March 2021.

The School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland is looking to appoint a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the process of extending its international research profile in an area of relevance to the current teaching and research profile of the program. Individuals with research and teaching interests in any area of applied linguistics are welcome to apply, although those with an interest in one or more of the following areas of applied linguistics are especially encouraged to apply: text analytics, quantitative methods, research methods. Research interests in one or more of the languages taught in the school would also be advantageous.

The successful appointee will engage in undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision, undertake and contribute to further development of the School’s Applied Linguistics program, as well as performing research, service/engagement and other activities associated with the School. This position is located at the picturesque St Lucia campus, renowned as one of Australia’s most attractive university campuses, and located just 7km from Brisbane’s city centre.

U Nottingham Ningbo: Literature/Applied Linguistics (China)

Teaching Fellow in Literature or Applied Linguistics, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China. Deadline: May 31, 2020.

The Department was first established as the “Translation Programme” in 1990, and was awarded full independent departmental status in 2019. During our 30-year history, we have built a reputation as one of the leading centres in the region for teaching and research in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies. The Department offers teaching at BA, MA and Research Postgraduate levels, and is among the most internationalized in the region, with an academic staff comprising members from Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan, Spain, the UK and Australia. The Programme has particular strengths in literary translation, minority cultures in translation, and interpreting, and is also expanding its profile in the field of translation technology.

The successful candidate is expected to deliver lectures and seminars in topics within Literature and Applied Linguistics. Specifically, we are looking for someone who has some teaching experience in higher education, specializing in at least two of the following areas: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Communication, Business and Professional Communication, Discourse Analysis, English Literature, Drama, English Language Teaching Methods, and Academic Learning Skills. The candidate is required to deliver teaching to all levels of the undergraduate and possibly postgraduate programmes. Candidates who are interested in research and who will contribute to Research and Knowledge Exchange activities and undertake administrative duties are preferred. Candidates must have a PhD degree at or near completion in a relevant discipline, preferably in English Literature or Applied Linguistics, and excellent communication and presentation skills in English.

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