Professor of Romance Linguistics - Salary and Career
Teachers in higher education language and literature

Professor of Romance Linguistics - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They teach classes, courses and seminars and carry out research in the areas of linguistics and literature, guide students, carry out pedagogical-administrative, assessment and professional qualification activities, organize the production of knowledge in the area, disseminate scientific knowledge, provide advice and consultancy.

How much does an Professor of Romance Linguistics earn

A Professor of Romance Linguistics earns between $643 and $20.669 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.198 and a median salary of $2.189 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 17 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Professor of Romance Linguistics

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 5.198 62.382 1.300 41
1º Quartile 643 7.716 161 5
Median Salary 2.189 26.267 547 17
3º Quartile 15.763 189.152 3.941 126
Higher Salary 20.669 248.022 5.167 165


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • teaching professionals
      • higher education teachers
        • teachers in higher education language and literature

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Main workplaces

Teachers in higher education language and literature the positions of this CBO family perform their functions in institutions and establishments whose activities are related to teaching, culture and research and development. Generally, they are hired as salaried workers, with a formal contract, work individually, in pairs and in work teams, carry out activities with occasional supervision, in closed environments, usually during the day, the exercise of work can occur from face-to-face and in a distance learning system. Professionals in some of the occupations may be subject to stress and may be exposed to the action of intense noise.


What does it take to work in the field of Teachers in higher education language and literature

These occupations are performed by people with higher education in the area of letters, usually postgraduates. For the full exercise of the functions, no professional experience is required, except for the occupations of professors of philology and textual criticism and professors of comparative literature. Admission to professional practice in public universities is by tender.


Functions and activities of Professor of Romance Linguistics

Teachers in higher education language and literature must:

  • provide assistance and consultancy;
  • render advice and consultancy;
  • advise students;
  • orient students;
  • organize the production of knowledge in the area;
  • delivering classes, courses, seminars in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • advising students;
  • perform assessment activities;
  • provide advice and consultancy;
  • carry out research in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • demonstrate personal competences;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • disseminate scientific knowledge;
  • organize knowledge production in the area;
  • conduct research in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • divulgar scientific knowledge;
  • minister classes, courses, seminars in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • perform research in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • guide students;
  • organizing knowledge production in the area;
  • disseminating scientific knowledge;
  • perform pedagogical-administrative activities;
  • teaching classes, courses, seminars in the areas of language, linguistics and literature;
  • perform research in the fields of language, linguistics and literature;
  • organizing the production of knowledge in the area;
  • perform professional qualification activities;
  • provide advisory and consulting;
  • provide advice and consultancy;
  • provide advisory and consultancy;

  • Activities

    • publish works;
    • organize scientific and cultural events;
    • discussing the use of language front to economic, social and political demands;
    • study new technologies to support research;
    • conduct theoretical-methodological discussions with the students;
    • update bibliographic collection of the area in the institution;
    • translate texts;
    • work as a team;
    • suggest translations, publications, etc., for publishers;
    • perform proofreading of texts and translations;
    • elaborate opinions for publishers;
    • evaluate national course exam;
    • organizing didactic editions for language teaching;
    • demonstrate capacity for analysis and synthesis;
    • organize didactic editions for language teaching;
    • distribute disciplines;
    • perform theoretical-methodological discussions;
    • delivering distance learning courses ;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • participate in committees to establish evaluation criteria for tenders;
    • establish assessment criteria;
    • promote seminars, lectures, among others, on specific topics;
    • evaluate the course's pedagogical project;
    • indicate bibliography;
    • orient specialization works;
    • make didactic-pedagogical knowledge available, via printed, electronic and digital means;
    • provide assistance to educational institutions;
    • organize literary competitions;
    • present papers at scientific conferences;
    • provide assistance to research funding agencies;
    • develop postdoctoral activities;
    • organize critical editions;
    • conduct seminars to discuss partial research results;
    • advise scientific initiation work;
    • prepare assessment instruments;
    • update your academic career;
    • prepare reports and monographs;
    • guide course completion papers - tcc;
    • structuring pedagogical projects in the area;
    • analyze data and research materials;
    • provide didactic-pedagogical knowledge, via printed, electronic and digital means;
    • represent peers in committees external to the institution;
    • make scientific production available via printed, electronic and digital media;
    • evaluate teaching, research and extension activities;
    • to prepare language proficiency exams;
    • discussing the application of the study of language in professional practice;
    • participate in the preparation of curricular proposals;
    • orient specialization works;
    • prepare exams for competitions (vestibular, admission, selection of teachers, etc.);
    • promoting the study of texts;
    • participate in national and international academic, scientific and cultural events;
    • advising doctoral theses;
    • participate in boards;
    • promoting inter and transdisciplinary studies;
    • participate in an academic and scientific award jury;
    • analyze communication processes in institutions;
    • discuss student production results;
    • elaborate master's thesis;
    • elaborate didactic and paradidactic material;
    • demonstrate instrumental mastery of a foreign language;
    • elaborate literary criticism;
    • organize schedules, schedules, etc;
    • organize anthologies;
    • elaborate glossaries;
    • develop language proficiency exams;
    • discussing social and cultural issues, in class;
    • schedule research activities;
    • elaborate opinions for scientific publications;
    • assess student needs;
    • elaborate language and literature textbooks;
    • plan and implement curricula;
    • promoting interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies;
    • perform self-assessment;
    • promote extension courses for companies, unions, ngos etc.;
    • demonstrate ability for analysis and synthesis;
    • provide financial resources for research;
    • assess the reading and comprehension of oral and written texts;
    • evaluate curriculum;
    • update in academic career;
    • promoting the study of texts;
    • articulate knowledge of different areas;
    • promoting seminars, lectures, among others, on specific topics;
    • participate in national and international scientific and cultural exchanges;
    • orient monitoring work;
    • organizing literary competitions;
    • discuss curricular proposals;
    • research the use of new technologies to support the area;
    • analyze methodological principles of the area;
    • update yourself in academic career;
    • plan and implement curriculum;
    • demonstrate ability to analyze and synthesize;
    • participate in the correction of exams;
    • suggest purchase of materials for language laboratory, computer science, etc;
    • elaborate opinions for research funding agencies;
    • work as a team;
    • provide advice to educational institutions;
    • orient scientific initiation work;
    • perform a bibliographic survey;
    • participate in examining boards (tcc, me, do, etc.);
    • perform text review and translations;
    • organizing anthologies;
    • publish translations of texts;
    • develop extension courses for companies, unions, ngos, etc.;
    • participate in discussions about the area, via the internet;
    • write texts related to research;
    • develop scientific working methodologies;
    • orient specialization work;
    • supervise internships;
    • evaluate the written production of students;
    • promote extension courses for companies, unions, ngos, etc.;
    • advise doctoral theses;
    • participate in meetings of research lines and groups;
    • follow specialization, improvement, extension courses, etc;
    • structuring pedagogical projects in the area;
    • advise course completion papers - tcc;
    • select texts for study;
    • carry out interdisciplinary studies;
    • orient students in the presentation of work;
    • writing preface, afterwords, introductions, ears and back covers;
    • select didactic and paradidactic material ( books, tapes, videos etc);
    • organize didactic editions of literary works;
    • prepare course programs;
    • master the historical-theoretical-methodological foundations of the area;
    • update syllabus;
    • demonstrate ability to transmit scientific knowledge, clearly;
    • exercise positions of leadership, direction, supervision and coordination;
    • writing entries;
    • discussing the use of the language front to economic, social and political demands;
    • suggest the purchase of materials for language laboratory, computer science, etc;
    • elaborate dictionaries;
    • collect data and materials for research;
    • plan budget;
    • relate specific knowledge of the area to sociocultural issues;
    • guide course completion works - tcc;
    • organizing diplomatic issues;
    • study new technologies to support teaching;
    • demonstrate ability to interact with students;
    • proceed ethically in interpersonal and professional relationships;
    • schedule the use of support;
    • proceed with ethics in interpersonal and professional relationships;
    • advise course completion projects - tcc;
    • schedule language laboratory activities and informatics;
    • perform bibliographic update;
    • organize and edit scientific publications;
    • demonstrate reflective ability;
    • elaborate notes and book reviews;
    • stimulate critical thinking in students;
    • participate in the organization of examining boards;
    • elaborate a master's thesis;
    • assemble a research team;
    • hold lectures, conferences, etc;
    • writing preface, afterwords, introductions, ears and back covers;
    • promoting studies on interrelationships of different languages;
    • develop language and literature textbooks;
    • assess reading and comprehension of oral and written texts;
    • supervise master's dissertations;
    • elaborate a doctoral thesis;
    • disclose student production;
    • elaborating literary criticism;
    • evaluate the development of students in the course;
    • perform interdisciplinary studies;
    • organize linguistic atlases;
    • participate in examining boards (tcc, me, do etc.);
    • participate in a cultural award jury;
    • give individual assistance to students;
    • make scientific production available, via printed, electronic and digital media;
    • analyze the interrelationship between verbal and non-verbal forms of language;
    • provide advice to public bodies;
    • define syllabus;
    • advise master's dissertations;
    • develop projects;
    • organizing linguistic atlases;
    • promote scientific and cultural exchanges;
    • relate theory and practice;
    • develop and implement extension projects;
    • elaborate opinions for research funding bodies;
    • perform publishing activities;


    Sectors that hire Professor of Romance Linguistics the most in the job market

    • elementary school
    • child education - pre-school
    • general public administration
    • support activities for education




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