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Education & Training · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
75/100
Very high

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
69/100
High

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence80/100
Task coverage81%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.High
73
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.High
82
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.High
75
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.High
69
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.High
71
Keep abreast of developments in their field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations and activities.High
80
Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.High
82
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in scholarly journals, books, or electronic media.High
79
Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.Medium
75
Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.Medium
82
Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.Medium
63
Develop and maintain Web pages for teaching-related purposes.Medium
72
Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.High
80
Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.Medium
81
Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.Medium
74
Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.Medium
82
Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.Medium
64
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.82
  2. Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.82
  3. Perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head.82
  4. Compile bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments.82
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.01
  2. Participate in student recruitment, registration, and placement activities.02
  3. 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.03
  4. Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.04
  5. Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.05
Where else this work leads

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency48
Physical dependency22
Adoption pressure43
Labour-market resilience49
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence80/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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