1 PhD position for Idiomatic Second Language Acquisition (ISLA)- Production in Netherlands | Radboud University

The PhD project is being hosted by two research institutes: 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 be provided through a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

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 command of written and spoken English.

Conditions of employment

• you will be appointed as a PhD student for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by another 2,5 years;
• you will be classified as a PhD student (promovendus) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO);
• the starting salary is €2,083 per month on a full-time basis, the salary will increase to €2,664 per month in the fourth year;

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 Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,700 students. The departments collaborate closely in teaching and research. Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two research institutes: the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HLCS) and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS). The project is embedded within the CLS research theme ‘Language in Society’ and will be supervised by Prof. dr. A. Dijkstra (DCC) and Dr H. Strik (CLS). CLS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and encourages applications from women and minorities. The Radboud University offers a parental leave scheme and on-campus day care.

Additional information

Dr. Helmer Strik

+3124 3616104

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