MCF - Swahili: language and language sciences

This position, to be filled following a retirement, aims to ensure continuity in the teaching offering of the Swahili section, which has a large number of students across the Africa Indian Ocean department.

Teaching:

The candidate will teach Swahili grammar at undergraduate level (L1, L2, L3). He/she will be expected to master the language in its standard and non-standard forms, and may be required to develop at Master's level, depending on his/her skills, a course on the diversity of spoken Swahili (popular languages, sheng...), lexicography (in the fields of new technologies, human sciences, medicine...) or focusing on the various media currently disseminating Swahili (media Swahili, radio, songs...).

The candidate will also be expected to contribute to the development of digital teaching tools within a section that has developed - and then temporarily abandoned - distance teaching of Swahili. The aim is to create a fully distance learning system, with the "grammar" component implemented by the recruited colleague. Competence in ICT is therefore desirable, as is knowledge of the MOODLE platform used by Inalco.

Teaching experience is required, as the candidate must above all be capable of proposing a clear progressive pedagogical content, in line with the teaching offered by the Swahili section of the Afrique Océan Indien department (cf UE1 of the LLCER bachelor's and master's brochures, available on the Inalco website).

In addition to the hours dedicated to teaching Swahili in the section, the candidate may, if he/she so wishes and depending on his/her skills, teach cross-disciplinary courses in the department or at the bachelor's and master's levels of INALCO.

He/she is likely to teach in English.

The candidate will be expected to be involved in the life and operation of the department, to reflect on the development of training courses, and to supervise students.

Teaching department:
Practice location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13

Research:

Related laboratories

Based on his or her specialties, the recruited teacher-researcher will be able to join an Inalco team of his or her choice, including:

PLIDAM:

The recruited MCF will be able to join the EA 4514 host team PLIDAM currently organized around 6 axes: Axis 1 - Language policies, plurilingualism and representations; Axis 2 - Didactics and language teaching/learning; Axis 3 - Lexicon and translation: which didactics?; Axis 4 - Literature and culture in language didactics; Axis 5 - Development and practice of digital tools for teaching and learning languages and cultures; Axis 6 - SemioMed "Semiotics, multimedia corpora and uses".

The PLIDAM laboratory is building cooperative projects with numerous French and foreign research teams.

The recruited MCF will be invited to get involved in the laboratory's collective work, which requires a solid knowledge of linguistics and didactics, as well as reflection on the transmission of Swahili as a foreign language to a French-speaking audience (traditional didactic tools and digital media).

EA4314 PLIDAM
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Thomas SZENDE
E-mail from laboratory director: thomas.szende@inalco.fr

LACITO

The recruited MCF will be able to join the UMR LACITO (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale) (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-Inalco) which comprises three non-exclusive research axes, with the same researcher able to work in one or other axis depending on projects. The three research axes are 1. documentation and corpus, 2. typology and historical linguistics, and 3. Linguistic anthropology. What unites the laboratory is the importance given to field research, whether in descriptive linguistics or linguistic anthropology. The laboratory gives priority to supporting missions devoted to field research.

A teacher-researcher attached to LACITO is expected to participate in laboratory activities and to be a driving force behind collective projects.

LACITO : UMR 7107 du CNRS
Location : 7, rue Guy Môquet (bât. D) - 94801 Villejuif

The LLACAN is a CNRS-INaLCO joint research unit dedicated to the analysis, documentation and comparison of African languages and literatures. We would be delighted to be able to recruit a Swahili specialist, who will be easily integrated into ongoing research on Bantu languages within LLACAN, such as the ANR OriKunda project led by Rozenn Guérois on the Bantu-speaking Chikunda people (https://orikunda.hypotheses.org/). The origin of Chikunda, as a language born of a situation of extreme multilingualism, presents some very interesting parallels with the origins of Swahili.

In addition to projects on individual Bantu languages such as Eton, Chuwabo, Sena, Chikunda, Myènè or Mbula (Jarawa), Bantu-speaking researchers at LLACAN are also making contributions in the field of comparative and historical Bantu linguistics that will no doubt be of interest to Swahili specialists.

Despite Swahili's status as one of the most widely spoken, studied, taught and equipped languages on the African continent, a modern reference grammar of the language is lacking today. LLACAN would be particularly interested in supporting a project to create such a grammar.

LLACAN UMR 8135 du CNRS

"Language, Languages and Cultures of Africa"
Location: 7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif
Name of laboratory director: Mark VAN DE VELDE
E-mail from laboratory director: llacan.direction@cnrs.fr

Hiring procedures

The position for which you are applying is likely to be located in a "restricted area" within the meaning of article R. 413-5-1 of the French penal code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment can only take place after access authorization has been issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree no. 84-431 of June 6, 1984.
The foreign-language administrative documents in the application file must be translated into French.
Réf :
- arrêté du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des maîtres de conférences

-order of February 13, 2015 relating to the general terms and conditions for transfers, secondments and competitive recruitment of university professors.

Applications must be submitted on galaxie.fr (applications received by email or post will not be considered for the campaign).