[EDLING:319] [Fwd: Position: Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics]

[Teresa Pica]

> Neal Lester wrote:
>
> 22 September 2004
>
> Dear Colleague:
>
> The Department of English at Arizona State University is seeking to
> make a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level in
> Applied Linguistics (Teaching English as a Second Language).  I write
> to ask your help in publicizing the position described in the
> announcement below. Thank you in advance for bringing this
> announcement to the attention of qualified candidates and for sending
> to me names and contacts of people you think might be interested.
>
> As specified in the announcement, the deadline for the applications is
> November 15, 2004 and the starting date for the appointment will be
> August 15, 2005.
>
> Below the position announcement you will find information about the
> programs in English related to Applied Linguistics.  More information
> about our Department appears on our website (www.asu.edu/english).
> Also please feel free to email me at Neal.Lester at asu.edu, or to
> telephone me at (480) 965-3535 if you would like more information.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Neal A. Lester, Chair
> Parents Association Professor
> Bebbling Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor
> Department of English
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
> 480.965.3535
>
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>                       Applied Linguistics (TESL)
>
> Assistant Professor.  Tenure-track. Primary specialization in Applied
> Linguistics.  Required qualifications:  PhD in applied linguistics or
> related field by time of appointment; college-level teaching
> experience; record of scholarly and professional activity; and
> expertise in English as a Second Language teacher preparation.
> Expertise in one or more of the following areas is desired: curriculum
> design, materials design, teaching methodology.  Initial teaching load
> is 2/2 for tenure-track faculty with significant research agenda, with
> opportunities to teach and mentor at both the graduate and
> undergraduate levels.  The successful applicant will be actively
> involved in an established Master of TESL program.  Applicants must
> send a letter of application stating qualifications, experience, and
> research plans and teaching interests; complete curriculum vitae;
> three letters of reference; and a brief sample of research to: Chair,
> Applied Linguistics Search Committee, Department of English, Arizona
> State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302.  Application deadline:
> postmarked by November 15, 2004; if not filled, then every Monday
> until search is closed.  All applications acknowledged.  AA/EOE
>
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>
> The English Department’s Linguistics and TESL graduate programs
> include a Master of Teaching English as a Second Language, an M.A. in
> English with concentration in Applied Linguistics, an M.A. in General
> Linguistics; program faculty also collaborate with the Department’s
> rhetoric faculty to offer a Ph.D. in English with concentration in
> Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics.  In addition, a new English
> major with concentration in Linguistics keeps program faculty active
> in undergraduate education, in cooperation with faculty from all areas
> of the Department, including literature, English education, and
> creative writing.
>
> Program faculty maintain a high level of research productivity.
> Professor Karen Adams’ research interests include language planning
> and language rights; she co-edited Perspectives on Official English
> (1990, Mouton); she has also published articles on the linguistic
> construction of opposition in Pragmatics, the Journal of
> Sociolinguistics, and Language Sciences, and she chairs ASU’s
> Interdisciplinary Program in Southeast Asian Studies.
>
> Associate Professor Dawn Bates works with native speakers and second
> language learners of Lushootseed Salish, a Native American language of
> Washington State; she edited the bilingual Lushootseed Dictionary
> (1994, Univ. of Washington Press) and is involved with several tribal
> programs that train teachers of Lushootseed.
>
> Associate Professor Marysia (Johnson) Gerson specializes in second
> language testing and assessment as well as discourse analysis; her
> recent books include A Philosophy of Second Language Acquisition
> (2004, Yale) and The Art of Non-Conversation: A Re-examination of the
> Validity of the Oral Proficiency Interview (2001, Yale).
>
> Second language phonologist Professor Roy Major’s recent publications
> include Foreign Accent: The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Second Language
> Phonology (Erlbaum, 2001) and “Gender and Stylistic Variation in
> Second Language Phonology” (in press, Language Variation and Change).
>
> Professor Don Nilsen works closely with the English Education program
> and the literature program; recent books with co-author Alleen Nilsen
> include Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source-Based Approach
> (2004, Pearson Allyn & Bacon) and Encyclopedia of 20th Century
> American Humor (2000, Oryx).
>
> Professor Elly van Gelderen’s Grammaticalization as Economy (2004,
> Benjamins) and Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its
> `Breakdown': Minimalist Feature Checking. (1997, Niemeyer) combine her
> interests in syntax and historical linguistics; her article "Aspect,
> Infinitival Complements, and Evidentials" will appear in Alice ter
> Meulen’s (ed.) The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse
> (Benjamins).
>
> Program faculty also contribute to several units across campus doing
> work related to linguistics, including the American Language and
> Culture Program, an intensive English institute; the Department of
> Languages and Literatures; Speech and Hearing Science; Southeast Asian
> Studies; Anthropology, and the College of Education.