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Job Radboud University Nijmegen - PhD student for 'Feedback and the acquisition of syntax in oral proficiency'

PhD student for 'Feedback and the acquisition of syntax in oral proficiency'

Job description

As a PhD student you will take part in the larger research project ‘Feedback and the acquisition of syntax in oral proficiency’. The goal of this research project is to investigate the essential role of feedback in L2 learning of syntax in oral proficiency. It will proceed from a granular level investigating the short-term effects of different types of feedback moves on different types of learners, to a global level by studying whether the granular, short-term effects also generalize to actual learning in the long term. Feedback will be provided through a CALL system that makes use of automatic speech recognition. This will make it possible to assess the learner’s oral production online and to provide feedback immediately under near-optimal conditions. As a PhD student you will study which feedback moves lead to immediate uptake and acquisition in the long term. You are expected to start in April 2010. You will be part of an international and interdisciplinary team and will work in a motivating research environment. For more information, see: http://lands.let.ru.nl/~strik/research/ASOP.html;

Requirements

You must have: - a Master’s degree in (Applied) Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Psycholinguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science or Education; - programming skills (e.g. Matlab, Perl); - an interest in second language acquisition; - a working knowledge of Dutch and a good command of the English language.

Conditions of employment

The total duration of the contract is 3.5 years. You will receive an initial contract for 18 months with possible extension by 2 years. The starting gross salary is €2,042 per month based on full-time employment. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in February 2010.

Contract type

Temporary

Organisation

Radboud University Nijmegen

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.

Department

Faculty of Arts

The Faculty of Arts consists of eleven departments in the fields of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,800 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. The project will be carried out at the Centre for Language Studies as part of the Linguistic Information Processing and Communicative Competences research programmes.

Additional information

Radboud University Nijmegen

Dr Helmer Strik
h.strik@let.ru.nl

Dr Catia Cucchiarini: (c.cucchiarini@let.ru.nl) Prof Roeland van Hout: (r.vanhout@let.ru.nl)

http://www.ru.nl/cls/

 

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