Vietnamese Language Instructor

About the Job

Vietnamese Language Instructor

Job codes: 9754 Teaching Specialist or 9753 Lecturer

About the job:

The Language Center seeks 1-2 part-time teaching faculty to lead the new Vietnamese for Heritage Learners language sequence. This is a two-course, four-credit, fully online sequence

that promotes the development of cultural and linguistic skills in Vietnamese and has been designed with heritage learners in mind. It follows a curriculum that aims to increase student

proficiency in tone awareness, writing and spelling conventions, grammar, and sentence structure, alongside knowledge and participation in Vietnamese culture in American immigrant

communities and abroad. The teaching faculty will be responsible for language instruction and assessment. They will serve as part of a collaborative team working together to support and

celebrate Vietnamese heritage language students, and the wider Vietnamese community. Teaching faculty are assigned to teach by academic term (summer session, fall semester, spring

semester), based on programmatic needs. Teaching faculty with a Masters degree will be appointed as Teaching Specialists (9754); teaching faculty with a PhD will be appointed as Lecturers (9753).

Duties and responsibilities:

* Teach assigned language classes

* Engage with both synchronous and asynchronous course meetings and assignments

* Maintain office hours

* Engage in curriculum and test development

* Prepare and grade exams, including Language Proficiency Exams (LPEs)

* Collaborate with the course and assessment development teams on continual course

and test improvement

* Assist with the promotion of Vietnamese language to the university and local

heritage-language community

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

* MA or foreign equivalent degree

* Native or near-native proficiency in Vietnamese

* Vietnamese language teaching and/or Vietnamese language assessment experience

* Online teaching or learning experience or education

* Experience with the major dialects of Vietnam, and the ability to understand both

northern and southern dialects

* Knowledge of Vietnamese culture in both Vietnam and the United States

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Preferred Qualifications:

* MA, PhD or foreign equivalent degree in a program related to language, linguistics or

cultural studies

* Vietnamese language teaching and Vietnamese language assessment experience

* Language materials development experience

* Experience designing placement and proficiency tests

* Experience working with Vietnamese heritage language learners

* Knowledge of the Twin-Cities Vietnamese heritage population

About the Department

About the Department & Language Program:

The Language Center is guided by its mission to support, elevate and celebrate diversity in language, linguistics and culture. The commitment to value inclusion, belonging, and equity for all - instructors, students and the broader community - drives the Center, which offers signature programs, like Tandem Plus, Language Testing & Course Share, as well as inclusive technology and welcoming spaces for everyone.

The center teaches Vietnamese, the official language of Vietnam and spoken by over 85 million people. Vietnamese is an important language in the state of Minnesota, which is home to the highest percentage of Vietnamese foreign population in the Midwest, and a thriving student population of heritage students on campus. The university Vietnamese program is designed to meet the needs of heritage students at multiple levels of proficiency, to include multiple varieties of Vietnamese, and to integrate cultural elements throughout the curriculum.

About the College of Liberal Arts:

Home to the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines and programs, the College of Liberal Arts is the largest college in the University of Minnesota and comprises 31 academic departments, and over 20 interdisciplinary research centers and administrative/support units. CLA has over 1,300 faculty and staff spanning research, teaching, advising, outreach, and administrative functions. CLA units reside in over twenty buildings on the East Bank and West Bank of the Twin Cities campus.

CLA enrolls nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, over 40% of the undergraduate enrollment on the Twin Cities campus, 1,400 graduate students, and has an annual all-funds budget of $290 million.

CLA is a destination for curious, compassionate individuals who are committed to making our increasingly interdependent and diverse global community work for everyone. That foundational commitment begins in our CLA Constitution. CLA is committed to increasing enrollment of underrepresented and under-resourced students, diversifying our faculty across all disciplines, recruiting, and retaining a diverse staff, and promoting the expression and exploration of diverse perspectives and viewpoints-so that we all gain the background knowledge and analytical skills we need to understand and respect differences.

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