Assistant Professor in TESOL and Digital Language Learning Technology (MLAC_01)

The successful candidate will join the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC), which is one of the largest and most successful such Schools in the UK. The School brings together research in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Japanese and Russian Studies. Our reach spans Europe, the Arab world, Russophone Eurasia, Hispanic America, and East Asia, and their mutual socio-cultural, intellectual and linguistic relations.

MLAC federates expertise to generate innovative practices in teaching and research that cross historical, geographical and methodological boundaries. Our expertise ranges from the medieval and early period studies through to the contemporary era, with particular strengths in visual arts and culture, the relationship between the sciences and the humanities, textual scholarship, gender and sexuality studies, critical and cultural theory, travel literature, creative writing, and translation. Indeed, translation — understood in its broad sense of transmission, interpretation and sharing of languages, ideas and histories — underpins the School’s collective practices.

The depth and diversity of our expertise is reflected in a range of interdisciplinary degree programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We offer undergraduate degrees in Modern Languages and Cultures, Chinese and Japanese Studies, and Visual Art and Film. Our taught postgraduate degrees offer advanced training in Translation Studies, Visual Culture and Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Meanwhile, the Centre for Foreign Language Study (CFLS) delivers an Institution-Wide Language Programme to students across the University via credit-bearing and non-credit bearing modules, giving as many of our students as possible the opportunity to learn languages in the way and at the level best suited to them. More information on the School can be found on our webpages at:

Reflecting our strengths in language teaching pedagogy, we are delighted that the University’s well-established MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics will be joining the School from academic year 2025/26. Currently based in the Durham Centre for Academic Development, the MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics has a long-standing reputation for attracting and training teachers of English from around the world. We anticipate that its move to MLAC will reinforce synergies and exchanges of good practice in the domain of language learning and language pedagogy.

The School seeks to support the development of the programme by appointing a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor in TESOL and Digital Language Learning Technology. We welcome applications from those with teaching interests in the broad field of English-language pedagogy and are particularly keen to hear from applicants with expertise in the application and integration of digital technologies into language pedagogy.

The post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent pedagogy and teaching while allowing unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. The appointment will be on the

Education track and be from 1 December 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

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