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Report on the MLA "Job Information List", 2009-10
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Laurence, David – Modern Language Association, 2010
In 2009-10, for the second year in a row, hiring in English and other modern languages contracted sharply, as measured by the number of ads and jobs in the MLA "Job Information List" ( "JIL"). This year the "JIL's" English edition announced 1,100 jobs and the foreign language edition 1,022 jobs. At 1,022, the number of jobs in the foreign language…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Academic Achievement, Modern Languages, Employment Opportunities
Report on the MLA "Job Information List", 2008-09
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Modern Language Association, 2009
The financial crisis of 2008 made its consequences painfully evident in the 2008-09 MLA (Modern Language Association) "Job Information List" ("JIL"). After trending upward between 2003-04 and 2007-08, the number of jobs advertised in the "JIL" in 2008-09 declined since 2007-08 by 446 (24.4%) in English and 453 (27.0%) in foreign languages. In the…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Employment Opportunities, Trend Analysis, Economic Factors