Vacancy for a PhD on the ISLA project.

PhD B: Production of FEs by L2 learners
Application deadline: 15 November 2014
For more details, also on how to submit your application, click here.

Note: on http://www.ru.nl/newstaff/working_at_radboud/details/details-vacature?taal=uk&recid=542073 is mentioned : ‘Faculty of Social Sciences’
This should be ‘Faculty of Arts’ – Centre for Language and Speech Technology (http://www.ru.nl/clst/)

Job description

The PhD project is being hosted by two research instutes: the Centre for Language studies (CLS) in the Faculty of Arts and the Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC) in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The project is part of a research programme investigating the processing of formulaic expressions (FEs). The project’s aim is to longitudinally study the production of FEs by L2 learners as a function of training/exposure, FE transparency, mutual information, and frequency.

On-line experiments, involving various elicitation techniques (reading aloud texts, listening and repeating utterances, sentence completion of written and auditory prompts and CLOZE exercises) will be repeatedly conducted in different phases of FE training, which will provided through a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

Job requirements

Preference will be given to candidates with an MA-degree in Computational or Applied Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, Cognitive Science, or Education.
Candidates should have:
• programming skills, e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, C/C++.
• excellent analytic and statistical / methodological skills
• experience in research,
• reasonable fluency in Dutch
• excellent written and spoken command of English.