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This article reports on a longitudinal study which investigated the process of becoming and being a first-year junior lecturer in a South African linguistics department. The lecturer arrived as a recent doctoral graduate from England at the beginning of the academic year. Qualitative data collection and analysis revealed that there were a number of areas in which the lecturer experienced conflicts between his own expectations of the job and what he actually encountered: for example, teaching practice, departmental politics, linguistic paradigms, affirmative action. In this article, the lecturer's experiences of learning to lecture are examined in terms of how he found himself conforming, coping, generating and resisting. These socialisation patterns provide a framework for considering the early experiences of all beginning lecturers and are used, in this article, as the basis for an approach to induction for academic staff in universities. After eighteen months he left the department to lecture linguistics and then teach English as a foreign language in Japan. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR Copyright of Higher Education Research & Development is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)