Teaching Professor (Assistant or Associate), Japanese Language

at  University of Alberta

Department Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept
Hours per week -
Posted date September 19, 2024
Closing date Will remain open until filled.
Position Type

DESCRIPTION

The Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Alberta is seeking to hire a full-time Teaching Professor at the rank of Assistant or Associate Lecturer, to teach all levels of Japanese, and to serve as director of the Japanese language program. This is a full-time, continuing Career status position. Anticipated start date is July 1, 2025.
While this position welcomes applications from individuals external to the university, current Academic Teaching Staff are first notified of available positions and will receive first consideration in accordance with the terms of Schedule D of the Academic Collective Agreement prior to considering external candidates. Please indicate your internal status using the “Advertisement” drop down menu when applying. Internal applications must be received by October 15, 2024 to be considered.
Salary will be commensurate with experience in accordance with the Academic Teaching Staff (ATS) agreement.
Location - Work primarily takes place at North Campus Edmonton. This role is in-person.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS :

• Native or near-native proficiency in Japanese and English.
• A Master’s or Doctorate degree in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, or some other field related to the study of the modern Japanese language, or to Japanese-language pedagogy.
• Minimum of three years’ experience teaching Japanese at the post-secondary level in Canada, or in the United States or another Anglophone nation. This experience must include teaching at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
• Minimum of two years of experience managing a language program or a part of a language program (e.g., 1st-year Japanese).

In addition to the above requirements, we will give strong preference to candidates who can demonstrate evidence of the following:

• Strong teamwork within a cohort of language instructors
• Excellence in design and development of instructional materials
• Record of welcoming a diverse student body into the Japanese language classroom, and of managing a classroom with students of different backgrounds and proficiency levels
• Pedagogical innovation such as task-based learning, etc.
• Experience in using standard language proficiency frameworks (ACTFL and/or CEFR) in performing language assessment and placement

• Teach seven class sections of Japanese language per academic year, in person on our Edmonton campus. Normally, this will be taught as three sections each in Fall and Winter semesters, with one class section in our short Spring semester. Expected to teach a graduate-level course on East Asian language pedagogy in some years, which would count as one of the seven required class sections.
• Manage all aspects of the Japanese language program.
• Take primary responsibility for language screening and placement for new students entering the Japanese language program. Encourage and support all students, from a diverse array of backgrounds and identities.