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These positions are open only to students enrolled as regular degree students at one of the five campuses in our consortium: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Employment by the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages counts as "on-campus" employment for international students from all five campuses. Students are required to have a work permission form signed by the designated international student advisor on each campus.
To apply for any of these positions, fill out and e-mail the application for conversation partners and materials development assistants. Your application will be kept on file as long as you are enrolled as a student at one of the Five Colleges. At the point that it looks like we may have openings for which you are qualified, we will contact you for an interview. We encourage students with language skills to contact us early in their college career. We very much like to hear from first year students. Often we cannot plan projects in a particular language until we know we have native speakers of that language. Your application may make a project in your language possible.
Conversation partners are native speakers who meet once a week with a small group of students studying in the Supervised Independent Language Program. Conversation partners facilitate conversation practice in the language and serve as a living link between the students and the language and culture they are studying. Conversation sections are conducted as much as possible only in the native language of the conversation partner. Conversation partners must be both fluent and literate in the language and must also have a good command of spoken English. Conversation partners are not teachers and do not give grammar lessons or correct homework. Their sole responsibility is to help students practice speaking the language. Conversation partners receive a modest stipend for their work.
We are currently accepting conversation partner applications for the following languages: Arabic (Modern Standard and all dialects), Bulgarian, Czech, Dari, Modern Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Persian/Farsi, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu. We would also like to hear from speakers of other African languages and any Central Asian languages.
Work at the Center assisting in the creation of video, audio, and image materials for use by students learning the language. Must be native-speakers, literate and formally educated in the language. Must be comfortable with computers and able to learn various software programs. 3 to 9 hrs. a week during the semester.
Work at the Center assisting in the creation of video, audio, and image materials for use by students learning the language. Must be native-speakers, literate and formally educated in the language. Must be comfortable with computers and able to learn various software programs. 3 to 9 hrs. a week during the semester.
Work at the Center assisting in the creation of video, audio, and image materials for use by students learning the language. Must be native-speakers, literate and formally educated in the language. Must be comfortable with computers and able to learn various software programs. 3 to 9 hrs. a week during the semester.
Work at the Center assisting in the creation of video, audio, and image materials for use by students learning the language. Must be native-speakers, literate and formally educated in the language. Must be comfortable with computers and able to learn various software programs. 3 to 9 hrs. a week during the semester.
Five College Supervised Independent Language Program
Five College Mentored Language Courses
Language and International Opportunities Web
LangMedia: The Five College Foreign Language Media Archive
Five College International and Regional Studies
Five College Language Departments
Language Resources on the Web
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Five Colleges, Incorporated is the consortium of Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.