Lecturer of French Language Education

About King’s Language Centre

King’s Language Centre (LC) is a semi-entrepreneurial department with over 100 members of staff.  It sits within the Centre for International Education & Languages (CIEL).  It teaches up to 27 languages & welcomes over 8,000 students each year to a variety of language courses. It has two broad & entwined remits: to provide language teaching & support in a range of formats to members of the King’s community; and to proactively pursue income-generating teaching opportunities with businesses, organisations and the wider London community. The LC also includes the Language Resources Centre which supports independent language learning with specialist language resources & work areas for students and teachers. In addition to a variety of learning resources (including grammar and course books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and online subscriptions), face-to-face learning support, cultural workshops & speaking practice sessions are also available.

About the role

About CIEL

Set up in 2023, CIEL’s role is to widen the educational reach of King’s as an integral part of the King’s lifelong learning offer & enhance the university’s scholarship of teaching & learning. The Centre offers an increasingly joined-up approach to a range of education experiences that are different to the typical degree, for individual learners, public and private sector groups, and partners, both in the UK and internationally.  The Centre sits alongside the nine Faculties of the university and comprises King’s Foundations, King’s Language Centre, and Summer Programmes. Each of these areas are well established, respected and recognised within and beyond the King’s community.  The Centre also supports the educational and learning development of King’s staff and students.

The successful candidate will join a team of 15 lecturers of French and will be involved in all the activities of the Language Centre, including teaching French & culture courses in a variety of programmes (UWLP, specialist students, Short Courses, Doctoral Training Partnership , & multiple partnerships with Faculties & other HE institutions). The successful candidate will support the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leaders in the planning and development of all activities related to the teaching of French, student experience, material and programme development, widening participation, and scholarly engagements.

The post holder will support, develop and maintain an active scholarly portfolio of activities related to the teaching of French language and culture, and play an active role in the developing/trialling/evaluating of original and/or adapted teaching materials.

The post holder will participate in the review, development & management of activities relating to course organisation and other functions, including staff management, student evaluations, quality control, and in meetings convened for these purposes.

The post holder will be expected to attend conferences, present papers, network in relevant associations, & represent the LC locally, attending King’s committee meetings and interest groups.

This is a full-time post, and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills & experience:

Essential criteria

• Native level fluency in French.
• Qualified to Postgraduate level in French language teaching / applied linguistics or a closely related subject and substantial experience of teaching French at all levels in the Higher Education sector.
• Expertise in the development of an active scholarly portfolio of activities related to the teaching of French language & culture.
• Experience in innovative engagement in technology enhanced learning.
• Extensive experience in the development of teaching resources following current language teaching methodologies (CLIL, communicative approach, task-based approach, etc).

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