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LINGLINE is a departmental newsletter specific to the interests and concerns of postgraduate students and staff within the Linguistics Department of Macquarie University. LINGLINE aims to help students and staff feel that they are in touch with the Department and its news, as well as with one another, whether one is currently in Sydney or elsewhere in Australia, New Zealand or any of 25 countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America. LINGLINE welcomes contributions from all students and staff in the Linguistics Department. Please submit notices by email to the editor Tessa Green tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au  Any ideas or comments re this newsletter will also be gratefully received and can be directed by email to this site.

Many congratulations

  • Linguistics Postgraduate Office is now recognised nationally Our “Team Ling” - Lindy Cooper, Robyn Guilmette, Patricia Lewis, Lorraine Whybrow and Kylie Coaldrake of the Department of Linguistics have won a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly Carrick). The Vice-Chancellor recently noted "in particular, I’d like to praise the efforts of “Team Linguistics” for demonstrating how professional staff can contribute to student learning – in their case by improving support for international postgraduate students within their Department".  For recent press releases about their success, go to: http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/events/index.asp?ItemID=3453  and also to this article on "Teaching Goes Beyond the Classroom" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24133771-25918,00.htm
  • Congratulations to Kimie Takahashi in the AMEP who has received a contract from Multilingual Matters for a book entitled "Language Desire: Gender, Sexuality and Language Learning". The book, which is based on Kimie's PhD thesis, will be published within the series, Critical Language and Literacy Studies, edited by Vaidehi Ramanathan, Bonny Norton and Alastair Pennycook. In addition, Kimie is working on a proposal for funding for a documentary film based on the book. If funded, she and her colleagues are planning to interview (1) a group of young Japanese women learning English in Australia, who are in romantic relationship with non-Japanese men, (2) famous Japanese women in the world, and (3) experts in the field of English as a global language. If anyone has suggestions or is interested in learning more about Kimie's research plans, please contact her at kimie.takahashi@nceltr.mq.edu.au
  • Congratulations to Paul Moore, a Macquarie Linguistics PhD student who recently received an ALTC award as part of a team from University of Wollongong. Their project was entitled: “For sustained work to collaboratively integrate contextualised academic integrity into curricula”.
  • Congratulations also go to Warren Hancock and his supervisor -  A/Prof. David Hall for the recent award of PhD for the thesis: Propaganda analysis: A contemporary framework.
  • Congratulations to Ingrid Piller, Jen Tindale, Denise Murray, Stephen Moore and Eva Bernat who have been successful, along with colleagues from five Australian universities (Monash University, Edith Cowan University, Deakin University, Melbourne University and Macquarie) in attracting $219,000 from the Carrick Institute for a research project entitled "Assessing the ongoing English language growth of international students.”
  • Congratulations also to the following staff for recent success in the University Priority Scheme Grants for projects to enhance learning and teaching to:
    • Tessa Green for a project entitled "Developing a diagnostic tool and early intervention strategies to support postgraduate students' academic literacy needs";
    • Jan Tent for a project entitled "Setting the standard: Developing a standards-based assessment and research development approach for postgraduate coursework dissertations";
    • Jean Brick for a project entitled "Developing HDR students' academic literacy: An on-line induction program.
  • For the recent MQRDG, congratulations to Jemina Napier and her colleagues Nicole Matthews and Sherman Young from the Departments of Media and Critical and Cultural Studies have been successful in the recent MQRDG round. They have received $45,000 for a project entitled: Participatory Media and Deaf People: Using digital storytelling to identify multimedia use and accessibility.
  • For her Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, congratulations to Martina Mollering  who is an ALLE RC member and also serves on the ALLE Management Committee.

Staff movements

Linguistics Chair Professor of Linguistics, Prof Christian Matthiessen, has decided to take a period of extended leave and is heading to the PolyU in Hong Kong. He will continue to play a role in Linguistics at Macquarie from a distance, through his HDR supervision and research activities. We all wish Christian the best with his pursuits in Hong Kong.

The Linguistics & Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival (December 8-9, 2008) Pre-Festival Workshop – 24 September 2008 Division of Linguistics & Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival - Monday December 8th & Tuesday December 9th, 2008

The Postgraduate Research Festival is a Divisional event designed to showcase the work of all Higher Degree Research students in the Division of Linguistics and Psychology. This year's Festival is being held on Monday December 8 & Tuesday December 9th, in U@MQ Function Centre (Building C10A) at Macquarie University. The Festival is an opportunity for research students to present their research to others in the Division, and to get feedback in a friendly and collaborative environment. With the diversity of research projects in the Division, the Festival is a stimulating forum for both students and staff.

To further assist you with your preparation for events such as Festival 2008, a Pre-Festival workshop will be held consisting of three seminars – “Presenting a conference talk: tips & tricks”; “Getting published” and “Building networks for scientific collaborations”.  The Pre-Festival will he held this year on Wednesday 24th September 2008 from 1:00 - 4:30pm in Price Theatre.

Any further questions/comments may be directed to the Festival Organising Committee festival@psy.mq.edu.au. You can also visit the Festival website for regularly updated information http://www.lp.mq.edu.au/festival/index.htm

Linguistics Research Seminars

The Linguistics Research Seminar Series for 2008 is held in the Seminar Room W5C221 from 11 am to 12 pm. Upcoming seminars include:

  • Aug 25 - Dr Agnes Terraschke
  • Sept 08 - Dr Mira Kim
  • Sept 15- Dr Sun Hee Ok Kim
  • Oct 20 - Dr Elisabeth Harrison
  • Oct 27 - Dr Kimie Takahashi and Professor Ingrid Piller

For further information please go to http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/research/researchseminars.htm

A reminder that some of the 2008 Linguistics Seminar Series are now available for download. Where possible and with permission of the presenters, we will audio podcast the seminars so that students who are unable to attend may access online.  If you need login details, please contact Robyn Guilmette robyn.guilmette@ling.mq.edu.au 

From the Macquarie Library

The latest issue of Library News for Health Sciences is now available at the following link: http://www.library.mq.edu.au/eguides/newsletter.html. Further enquiries about resources can be directed to Karen Marks and Mary Simons, Liaison Librarians - Advanced School of Medicine, Health & Chiropractic, Psychology & Linguistics, Information Access, Macquarie University Library, Phone: (K) 98509009, (M) 9850 7536, Email: karen.marks@library.mq.edu.au, mary.simons@library.mq.edu.au, www.library.mq.edu.au

From the Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) Research Centre

Applied Linguistics and Language in Education (ALLE) is now a Research Centre of the Department of Linguistics (see http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/centres/alle/index.htm).  The ALLE RC regularly receives visitors and holds monthly events for staff and students. Recent events were an ALLE Seminar on 25 June presented by Dr Pisamai Supatranont from Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Tak, Thailand on EASP Materials Derived from a Web-based Corpus. Dr Supatranont received an Australian Endeavour Scholarship) to be a postdoctoral visitor working with David Hall from Feb-July 2008.

The first ALLE Research Student Seminar was held on 30 July. Students were invited to submit “burning questions” on the topic of Issues in Research Methodology. Questions were submitted by Tho Le, Susan Ollerhead, Malcolm Sim who are studying on campus and from Carmen Contijoch and Veronica Sanchez who are completing the Doctorate of Applied Linguistics in Mexico. A panel Q&A discussion, chaired by Anne Burns, included Eva Bernat, David Hall, Jan Tent and Peter Roger. Over 30 students attended the seminar. The next Seminar is planned for 15 October.

Recordings and Powerpoint presentations for ALLE Seminars are on the website under Events. We hope that distance students will tune in to the recordings. Please keep an eye on the website for details of other upcoming events and ALLE news.

Information about ALLE members, their research interests and recent publications are also on the ALLE website. If you are a Macquarie research student working in the ALLE area and would like to become a student member of ALLE please contact Anne Burns at anne.burns@ling.mq.edu.au

From the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Research (CTIR)

Seminar series

The CTIR is going to hold a series of seminars from Wk 3 of the second semester, 2008. The presentations will be made by T&I staff who have presented or will present papers in conferences this year. T&I staff, PhD students, and others who are interested in the field of translation and interpreting are all welcome to the seminars. Wk 3: the first presenter will be Ms Helen Slatyer who will report on the results of the T&I program review conducted in the first semester, 2008. T&I staff members are encouraged to attend the session, as it will provide a great forum for discussion. Wk 4: the presentation will be made by A/P Eddie Ronowicz based on his presentation at the recent FIT conference in Shanghai, China. Other T&I staff members who have presented papers in conferences this year will also make presentations in the following seminars. Detailed information including the abstract of the presentation, the time and place will be distributed before the seminar days. And  those staff members who reported their research projects at the retreat earlier this year are also more then welcome to present the progresses of their projects. Please contact Ms Youngouk Lee, CTIR assistant (CTIR@ling.mq.edu.au), to arrange the presentations.

From the Adult Migrant Education Program Research Centre (AMEP RC) Visiting scholars

Yukinori Watanabe will be visiting the AMEP Research Centre from the 6th to the 24th of August 2008. He is a PhD candidate at Waseda University in Tokyo and his doctoral thesis explores the possibility of applying the AMEP as a model for a nationally funded Japanese language program for adult foreign residents in Japan (for further information on his work see http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/news/archived_feature_spots/the_amep_goes_international Recently, Nabe received a large grant for this project from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, which made his visit to the AMEP RC possible. The main purpose of his visit is to learn about the role the AMEP Research Centre plays within the AMEP. In addition, Nabe is a lecturer at Sagami Women's college in Tokyo, where he teaches English as a foreign language as well as cross-cultural communication. He is also an active member of the Institute for Multicultural Society in Japan. Nabe has published widely in the areas of multiculturalism, language learning and health tourism.

Nabe will be presenting his work during a guest lecture on August 21, 3-5pm. Contact the AMEP RC for further details - http://www.ameprc.mq.edu.au/

From Audiology

Generous corporate donation by Phonak

Ora Buerkli, the Director of Product Management at Phonak in Switzerland, has kindly donated 20 of the latest type of Phonak Naida hearing aids for use in a project by Quar Tian Kar from Malaysia who is one of our PhD students who is conducting a project on amplification for severely and profoundly deaf children. Prof Harvey Dillon, from National Acoustic Laboratories, is also involved in the project. These hearing aids are of the latest type, released only two months ago, and with a wholesale price of $1500 each (in fact, they would retail for about twice this amount), making the donation all the more generous. Quar Tian Kar has also been given a free pre-release copy of the latest DSL version 5 software for hearing aid fitting from Professors Seewald and Scollie at the University of Western Ontario for the work, which will be carried out in the Audiology Clinic at the National University of Malaysia (UKM).

This is fantastic news and a great example of corporate sponsorship for research on hearing aids. Thank you to Phonak.

From our students

  • Our Mexican Doctor of Applied Linguistics students have kindly sent us this short video of themselves in Mexico. CLICK HERE for a brief view.
  • PhD student Jenny Eagleton writes to make the following point:   The Bush administration's replacement of “timeline” with “time horizon”in the discussion about troop withdrawal in Iraq is interesting when you consider the difference between a line and the horizon. A line is right where it is; the horizon moves away endlessly as you approach it. I think "time horizon" fits in well with the discussion about completion of such things as theses etc. with their shifting "timelines".

If other LINGLINE readers wish to share their ideas and stories, or have something to advertise, please email the editor tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au

Linguistics in the media

  • Linguistics and the Logies!
  • INGLINE recently reported that Dr Felicity Cox from Linguistics at Macquarie was involved in a documentary last year "The Sounds of Aus – The Story of the Aussie Accent" which was nominated for a Logie for Best Documentary.  We are happy now to report that it has also been judged a finalist in the category "Best Documentary Social & Political Issues" in the 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards.

  • The 2008 EnhanceTV ATOM Awards 26th anniversary presentation will take place on the evening of Friday 24th October in Melbourne. The ATOM/EnhanceTV study program guide can be found at http://www.enhancetv.com.au/shop/product.php?productid=106183&cat=252&page=11 The nomination for an ATOM award follows the documentary's recent success at the Hugo Television awards in Chicago, where it was received the Gold Plaque - Documentary: Arts/Humanities.
  • Izumi Inoue, Associate Lecturer in Translation & Interpreting was recently interviewed by one publishing company (Space ALC) in Japan for their featured articles regarding the translation and interpreting industry as well as on translator education.  The articles can be found at http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/feature/080625/01.html  (for translation practitioners and educators who are based overseas) and http://www.alc.co.jp/eng/hontsu/oshonsc/kakkoku.html  (for those learning translation and interpreting overseas)

New Name for the University's English Language Centre

The Centre for Macquarie English (CME) is the new name for Macquarie's English Language Centre, formerly known as NCELTR English Language Programs. The Centre up to the end of 2007 was part of the Division of Linguistics and Psychology, and is now located within Access MQ. The new name, The Centre for Macquarie English, was selected as it clearly identifies CME as the University’s English Language Centre. CME also incorporates the IELTS Test Centre and the IELTS on-line programs.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards

The General Sir John Monash Awards

Nominations are now open for The General Sir John Monash Awards. The closing date is 31 August. The awards are to enable individual applicants to undertake postgraduate study internationally. The General Sir John Monash Awards are not limited by age, gender, and academic field of study, country or university. However, the university chosen must be considered to be a global leader in the field of study. There is no upper age limit stipulated but the Awards will generally favour those whose major contribution to their field and to the community lies ahead of them. Up to eight Awards may be awarded to individual applicants.

The benefits are:

  • Up to $150,000 over 3 years;
  • The General Sir John Monash Awards may be held concurrently with other scholarships or awards, at the discretion of the Foundation;
  • The annual Award sum of $50,000 is normally paid in two equal payments, in advance and after six months.

For more information please see www.monashawards.org/awards.asp

From the Macquarie University Research Office For the latest news, go to: http://www.research.mq.edu.au/researcher and click on the news icon.

Writing website for postgraduate students

Linguistics postgraduate students can access LINGPWS The Linguistics Postgraduate Writing-Skills website. This is a resource designed to assist Linguistics students with academic writing. The Unit Content section for the website has six parts:

Part 1. Approaching the Assignment Question Part 2. Planning Your Assignment Part 3. Structuring Your Assignment Part 4. Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism Part 5. Critical Review Writing Part 6. Common Questions about Linguistics Assignments

All Linguistics students enrolled in a postgraduate unit (on-campus, external) can access the site by using their MQ ID and password which every student is given at enrolment. To logon to the website please go to: http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/support/writing_skills/online.htm

For further enquiries about the Writing Skills Website, contact Tessa Green tessa.green@ling.mq.edu.au

From the Macquarie University Postgraduate Representative Association (MUPRA)

As you may be aware the Macquarie University Postgraduate Representative Association (MUPRA) makes available a newsletter to all postgraduate students on campus. The content is is a mixture of campus events and information, however anything off campus is also considered (such as lectures or policy changes etc.). We would like to extend an invitation for input. If you would like to contribute, please email Kate.Boyce@po.mq.edu.au. For the latest news, please go to: http://www.mq.edu.au/mupra

Call for submissions - TESOL Quarterly Special Issue 2010 Anne Burns and Celia Roberts, King’s College, London are editing the Special Issue of TESOL Quarterly, 2010, on ‘Language and Adult Migration’. Please consider submitting abstracts, due 31 December.  For details, see the ALLE RC website http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/centres/alle/index.htm

Upcoming conferences, symposia and workshops

Call for Papers - 2nd International Free Linguistics Conference, 11-12 October 2008, University of Sydney. Featured focus speakers: Linda Barwick, Liz Ellis, M.A.K. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Aek Phakiti, Trevor Johnston. Abstract submission deadline is August 15.

Abstracts are invited from any linguistic (and TESOL) sub-fields, and presenters may choose from the following strands: Aboriginal Languages, Cognitive Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Critical Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, First Language Acquisition, Forensic Linguistics, Language & Culture, Language in Education, Language Policy & Planning, Languages Other Than English (LOTE), Multilingualism, Natural Language Processing, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Second/Additional Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, TESOL, Translation, Interpretation and other areas.

For further information, go to: http://www.freelinguistics.org

The Fifth International Symposium on Genre Studies,  will meet on August 11-14, 2009 in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This is a lovely city of 400, 000 in the mountains inland and north of Porto Allegre, in southern Brazil, in a grape growing region (for more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxias_do_SulSymposium themes include:

  •  Text genres: epistemology and methodology
  •  Text genres and language teaching
  •  Text genre and teacher training
  •  Text genres and professional areas
  •  Text genre and literacy
  •  Text genre and media

Proposals are now being accepted for individual  papers, coordinated paper presentations, and  posters.  Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2008. Further details at the conference website: http://www.ucs.br/ucs/extensao/agenda/eventos/vsiget/ingles/apresentacao

Call for papers - TESOL Research Network, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia, September 20, 2008. Submission deadline: 22 August 2008, Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Chris Davison, The University of New South Wales - “Action Research as an Agent of Change: School-based English Language Assessment in Hong Kong”.
  • Dr. Robyn Moloney, The University of Sydney -“Intercultural Competence in Young Language Learners: A Doctoral Experience”

For further information, go to: http://www.edsw.usyd.edu.au/research/networks/tesol/index.shtml

Call for papers and workshops - The 21st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop. 8-10 July, 2009, Cardiff, Wales.http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/

Theme: ‘Choice’ - “The grammar is based on the notion of choice” (Halliday, 1969). 

Choice could be considered the most important core concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is perhaps the most controversial or challenging. What do we mean by choice?  Although choice is a central notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is rarely the explicit topic of research.  The goal of ESFLCW09 is to consider the role of ‘choice’ as a core concept in theoretical and applied work.  We strongly encourage paper submissions to ESFLCW09 to address the theme of ‘choice’ in one of the following ways.  Its role in:

  •  Systemic Functional Linguistic theory.
  •  Human language production and/or understanding.
  •  Computational language generation and/or parsing.
  •  Code-switching and multilingualism - one system or many?
  •  The practical analysis of the clause, text, and/or discourse.

We would also like to encourage submissions which link SFL with related linguistic theories where choice also plays an important role (for example, other functional approaches, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.).  Papers focussing on other core concepts in SFL will also be accepted.  Research on languages other than English is strongly encouraged.  We also welcome submissions representing work in progress. Plenary Speakers: Chris Butler, Swansea University; Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool; Elke Teich, Technische Universität Darmstadt. Please send abstracts by email to: eisfw@cf.ac.uk  Closing Date: 1st February 2009. For more information:  www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/ The next IATEFL Conference is in Cardiff from 31 March to 4 April 2009. The deadline for paper proposals is 22 September. Details at http://www.iatefl.org/content/conferences/index.php

New Publications

From Equinox Publishing - http://www.equinoxpub.com/ Sociocultural Theory and the Teaching of Second Languages. Edited by James P. Lantolfand Matthew E. Poehner. Series: Studies in Applied Linguistics edited by Christopher Candlin, Macquarie University, and Srikant Sarangi,Cardiff University.  L.S.Vygotsky, the renowned Russian psychologist, argued that the true test of any scientific theory is not the contribution it makes to our understanding of the object of study but the extent to which it improves the concrete practical activities of people, including those that take place in educational settings. The fourteen original chapters included in the present volume document innovations in second and foreign language teaching that are rooted in Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development. Researchers and language teaching practitioners will find implementations at the classroom and programmatic levels of Vygotskian principles and concepts, including cognitive mediation, the zone of proximal development, activity theory, internalization, verbalization, and materialization.   From Pearson Education – http://www.pearsoned.com.au Therapeutic Communication: A lifespan approach. Sally Candlin,University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University. ISBN: 9780733985621 Format: Paperback. Pub Date: December 2007. Description: For nursing and health students studying communication. This text stresses the importance of developing students’ therapeutic communication skills to equip them for health care practice. Therapeutic Communication: A lifespan approach consists of three parts. Part One: Preparing for Practice introduces theories of communication and provides a theoretical foundation for problem-based learning. Part Two: Healing and Caring and Part Three: The Wider Dimensions of Healing and Caring focus on clinical practice where students are encouraged to work through scenarios that not only involve a ‘patient’ but also the significant others who live and work within the patient’s environment. These scenarios encourage students to review and develop their communication skills, focusing for example on their listening skills, their approaches to questioning, and to opening and closing of conversations to achieve maximum information exchange in a variety of clinical situations.

Positions Vacant

SALC Assistant Manager, Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan.

Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS), Chiba, Japan has an opening for the position of SALC (Self-access Learning Centre) Assistant Manager. The SALC Assistant Manager works as part of a team in a mainly English language environment to ensure the smooth running of the SALC administrative functions. This is a full time, one year (renewable) position. You will work with the administrative team to ensure smooth-running of the SALC. Key responsibilities:
  • Manage counter services
  • Be involved in ordering, maintaining and providing access to various SALC materials
  • Be involved in overseeing student employees
  • Take part in all other aspects involved in running of the SALC
  • Take part in various university administrative work Qualifications/experience/competencies include:
  • College graduate
  • Excellent English and Japanese language skills (written and spoken)
  • Experience of working in an educational environment
  • Experience of working in a service-oriented environment
  • Ability to learn quickly and take initiative
  • Ability to work in a mainly English environment
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to use Microsoft Office and the Internet
  • Experience of self-access learning as a student desirable

Closing date for receipt of applications: 31st August, 2008. Position to commence late September, 2008. Please send a CV and cover letter explaining how you could make an important contribution to the SALC team in both English and Japanese to: Dr Jo Mynard, SALC Director / ELI Assistant Director, Kanda University of International Studies, 1-4-1 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba-ken, 261-0014. Japan. Applications may also be sent by fax to: +81 - 43 - 273 - 2018 (from outside Japan), 043 - 273 - 2018 (from inside Japan). Or by email to: salcrecruitment@kanda.kuis.ac.jp

2 positions vacant at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick

Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics (2 posts; permanent) £31,793 - £41,545 pa / £42,791 - £49,606 pa. Post One: English language testing Specialisms: Test development; research into testing; quantitative research methods Post Two: Discourse analysis/professional communication Specialisms: 'Working and communicating across cultures'; e.g. intercultural communication, inter-professional communication, culture and pedagogy, international business English. For both posts, duties include research, teaching, innovation and development, and may include consultancy work. Further details: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/jobs or http://www.jobs.ac.uk/warwick Closing date: 4 September 2008. Informal enquiries can be made to the Director, Dr Helen Spencer-Oatey: helen.spencer-oatey@warwick.ac.uk. Tel. +44 (0)24 7652 3200.

Lecturer in Linguistics (3 Year Fixed-term), University of New England, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences.

The School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a linguist (applied or general) within the Linguistics discipline.  Linguistics at UNE has a very active research culture, encompassing international, regional and local projects.  Linguistics is a core member of UNE’s Language and Cognition Research Centre http://www.une.edu.au/lcrc/  Further information about Linguistics at UNE can be found at http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics

The position is for a fixed-term period of three years with the possibility of further appointment subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.  Applicants must have a demonstrated ability to teach a variety of UNE’s existing units in applied and general linguistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.  (See list at:  http://www.une.edu.au/bcss/linguistics/units.php)  Units are taught both on-campus and in external (distance) mode, with a strong emphasis on online delivery.  The applicant will also be required to supervise research students in areas appropriate to the applicant’s specialisation, and contribute to the research culture of the discipline.

This position would ideally suit someone who wishes to retain their career focus while also having the desire for a lifestyle change in beautiful Armidale, New England.  Armidale is surrounded by world heritage national parks, is only 2 hours from the mid north coast and is a unique regional centre that offers all the facilities of a city.  Recognised as a centre of culture, Armidale is well served for art, music, theatre and education, both public and private.  KMPG demographer Bernard Salt has rated Armidale in the top 10 boom towns in Australia due to construction and education.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Professor Kerry Carrington, ph:  (02) 6773 3519 or email:  kerry.carrington@une.edu.au or Dr Liz Ellis, ph: (02) 6773 3639 or email: liz.ellis@une.edu.au. Salary: $68,796 to $81,535 per annum (Lecturer) plus 17% employer superannuation and optional salary packaging. Closing Date: 8 September 2008. Reference No: 208/086. An application package, including selection criteria that must be addressed, may be obtained from http://www.une.edu.au/recruit or by phoning Human Resource Services, (02) 6773 3972.  Applications will be received up to 5pm on the closing date. 

Lectureship in Applied Linguistics or TESOL - School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

The University invites applications for a fixed-term (2 year) Lectureship in Applied Linguistics or TESOL in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. The successful candidate should have completed, or nearly completed, a PhD in an aspect of Applied Linguistics or TESOL, and have experience in teaching at the tertiary level. We would be particularly interested to receive applications from candidates with teaching and research interests in second language teaching and learning, curriculum design, or computer-assisted language learning. However, scholars whose interests lie in any field of Applied Linguistics or TESOL are encouraged to apply. Please see below details of a post at the Victoria University of Wellington. See http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/ for more details.

Research Officer (Grade 7), Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication, Institute of Education, University of London. Reference:   7AC-CPLCC-4680,  Full-time from 1 October 2008 for 12 months, and then 0.4FTE for an additional 18 months. Job share Considered. Closing Date:   Friday 05 September 2008. Salary:  £28,290 to £32,795 Plus £2,323 London Allowance.

You will work on the project, 'Towards Dialogue: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study of Classroom Interaction and Change', which is an ESRC-funded research study of the stability and change of interactional patterns in primary school classrooms. The project is funded for two and a half years with Dr. Adam Lefstein as principal investigator. You will need to have a higher degree, preferably a doctorate, or comparable research experience in education, anthropology, sociolinguistics or another relevant field. You will have experience of conducting sustained ethnographic fieldwork, preferably in schools; sound knowledge of key concepts and methods in ethnography, language and communication; and practical experience working with language and communication data. The ability to work independently and to tight deadlines will also be essential for this role. Further details and application process may be found at http://jobs.ioe.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=7AC-CPLCC-4680

 TEFL positions available – English Language Institute of Kanda University of International Studies

The English Language Institute of Kanda University of International Studies http://www.kuis.ac.jp/eli/ has openings for suitably qualified teachers of English as a foreign language. These lecturer positions are for a two-year period commencing April 2009. There may be an option to renew the contract for a further two years.  The closing date for applications is September 1st, 2008.
 
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