National Taiwan Normal University

Job Openings for Assistant professorship or beyond in the Department of Chinese Language and Culture for International Students (CLC), National Taiwan Normal University.

The Department of Chinese Language and Culture for International Students (CLC), National Taiwan Normal University, was established in 2007 as an undergraduate degree program solely for international students. The department is located on the Linkou campus in Taipei County.

Openings: CLC has 2 to 3 openings for instructors with the rank of assistant professor, Associate Professor or Full Professor, starting from August 1, 2009.

Qualifications:

1. The positions are open to applicants with Doctoral degree in Language Pedagogy (at the university level), Applied Linguistics, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Chinese Studies, Chinese Language and Literature, or other related fields. Priority will be given to candidates with proficiency in foreign languages and experience teaching Chinese overseas. Applicants must be able to teach courses in some of the following fields: modern Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, Chinese cultures, Chinese arts, and etc.

2. Except for newly acquired Doctoral degree (i.e. graduation within two years), newly recruited instructor has to 1) have published one article per year in average in the last three years (back from the date of the announcement) in journals or monographs.

Application materials (One copy of each unless otherwise noted)

1) Application form: please download the form from the CLC website, under “News.”

2) Photocopies of related documents, including the diploma of Doctoral degree, instructor certificate, transcript of Doctoral degree if received within the past two years, and other proof of academic recognitions.

3) Autobiography

4) Two letters of recommendation;

5) The department will send individual notices if Doctoral dissertation and publications within the past three years are needed.

Application deadline: January 31, 2009. Applications will be reviewed as soon as received; positions will remain open until filled.

Please send complete application to:

Professor Hsin, Shih-Chang, Chair of Search Committee

Department of Chinese Language and Culture for International Students

National Taiwan Normal University

No. 2, Ren-ai Rd., Sec. 1, Linkou Township, Taipei County 24449, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Telephone: (886-2) 26016241-463

Fax: (886-2) 2601-1730

E-mail: hsins@ntnu.edu.tw

Website: http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/clc