Several teaching positions are available at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Jordan

Joining Date: January 2015 or September 2015.

Please forward your CV, and qualifications to: [email protected]

Description of host institution:

The University of Jordan is often labeled 'the mother university' as it was first to be established in the country and that was in 1962. It is a public four year institution with about 45,000 students, 1400 faculty members, 19 colleges, and 11 institutes and centers. The Faculty of Foreign Languages is a new college that branched in 2008 off the eldest college, the Faculty of Arts. It has a student population of more than 4,000 students, fourteen percent of whom are males. It teaches 14 European and Asian languages.

The Department of Linguistics was established in 1997 and it offers one B.A. program in Applied English and will soon offer an M.A. in Language, Culture, and Communication. Applied English is a very modern ESP program which is characterized by a practical and applied approach to linguistic knowledge; although it does not ignore theory completely; practice takes precedence and arches over the entire program. Hence, it focuses on empowering students with communicative English language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing without the need for meta-language. At the same time, it qualifies its graduates for the job market in such areas as tourism, hotels, media, business, law, health, and diplomacy.

Graduates of Applied English worked in diplomacy, media, tourism, law, public relations, health, translation, and education. Their jobs were in private and public, local and international, and profit and non-profit organizations.