Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach languages and literature courses in languages other than English. Includes teachers of American Sign Language (ASL). Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
19,830 people do this job in the US. $79,350 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 6%
- 9%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 16%. Today's estimate: 23%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 24 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in scholarly journals, books, or electronic media.Done more than yearly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 19% | 3.5 work weeks4.2 work days to 2.9 work months | 0%Half by Feb 2030 | |
| Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.Done more than yearly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 15% | 1.7 work days3.3 h to 4.2 work days | 2%Half by Feb 2028 | |
| Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 6.7 h3.3 h to 2.1 work days | 10%Half by May 2027 | |
| Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.Done more than weekly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 9% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.3 work days | 25%Half by Mar 2027 | |
| Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | 43%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as how to speak and write a foreign language and the cultural aspects of areas where a particular language is used.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 8% | 2.5 h1.7 h to 5 h | 82%Half by now | |
| Organize and direct study abroad programs.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 5% | 4.2 work days1 work day to 2.8 work weeks | Stays with people | |
| Participate in campus and community events.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h50 min to 2.5 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 1.1 h38 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Write grant proposals to procure external research funding.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 3% | 1.3 work weeks2.1 work days to 3.3 work weeks | 0%Half by Jan 2029 | |
| Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.Done more than monthly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 3% | 5 h1.7 h to 1.7 work days | 17%Half by Apr 2027 |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary16% now, 62% by 2028
- Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary22% now, 68% by 2028
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education36% now, 44% by 2028
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors57% now, 66% by 2028
- History Teachers, Postsecondary12% now, 55% by 2028
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education40% now, 46% by 2028
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