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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Assistant Associate Linguistics - Qatar University - Doha - Qatar

Required qualifications include a PhD in Linguistics from an recognized and accredited university in North America and UK; significant record of publications in refereed journals; evidence of excellent teaching at the undergraduate level; interest in teaching core and general courses in linguistics; proficiency in the use of technology in the classroom; and ability to provide leadership and engage in department development.

All QU faculty members must demonstrate effectiveness in the following categories: teaching and program development; scholarly, professional and/or creative activities; and institutional and/or community service.

The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University, Doha invites applications for an Assistant/Associate level position in linguistics with specialization in socio-phonetics to begin fall 2013. The position is three years renewable. Candidates whose research projects bring together phonetics, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis theoretically and methodologically are specially invited to apply. Knowledge of Arabic or sociolinguistics of the Arab World will be an additional advantage.

The candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching of a broad range general undergraduate linguistics courses which include introduction to linguistics, phonetics and phonology, language and society, language and gender, discourse analysis, history of the English language, etc. The candidate will also be responsible for supervising undergraduate capstone research projects in linguistics.

The Department of English Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University offers undergraduate degree in English with concentrations in linguistics and literature. The Department is committed to familiarizing students with both formal and functional approaches to the study of language.

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