Assistant Teaching Professor​/Lecturer in EPPIC

## Assistant Teaching Professor/Lecturer in EPPICApplylocations:
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** POSITION SPECIFICS
** The Department of Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a full-time
** Lecturer or
**** Assistant Teaching Professor
** position in the department’s English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC), starting as soon as possible.

EPPIC is an established university center in Penn State’s highly-ranked Department of Applied Linguistics that provides advanced English language communication support services to multilingual students, scholars, faculty, and staff across Penn State’s global community and conducts research on language-in-use across academic and professional units of the university.  EPPIC draws on in research in applied linguistics, language for specific purposes (LSP), Vygotskyan sociocultural theory, and move-step analysis of academic discourse.

The Lecturer/Assistant Teaching Professor role is central to the delivery of EPPIC’s language support services and includes:
* Leading workshop series for multilingual undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars from diverse disciplines on advanced writing and speaking in academic and professional English;
* Leading weekly speaking-group sessions focused on both formal and informal oral communication in a university setting;
* Designing and implementing customized workshops by request from departments and programs across Penn State;
* Offering individual consultations on spoken and written academic English communication to multilingual students, scholars, faculty, and staff at Penn State;
* Providing training and mentorship to graduate teaching assistants assigned to EPPIC;
* Initiating and contributing to research projects related to disciplinary genre analysis, the design and content of new language support programming, assessment of the impacts of EPPIC’s language-related services on student and scholar development, and related topics.
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* Minimum Qualifications:

*** An M.A. in Applied Linguistics, TESOL, Linguistics, or a related field emphasizing the teaching of English as an additional language and/or English for specific purposes
* At least three years of experience working with matriculated graduate students on discipline-specific research reading, writing, presentations, and informal academic and professional communication
* Specific training, expertise, and experience in teaching speaking — including pronunciation and specific-purpose oral genres such as research presentations, discussions, conversations with one’s advisor, networking interactions, and oral examinations
* Superior command of…