[Corpora-List] Research studentship - learner corpora

[John Osborne]

Doctoral research studentship: oral learner corpora

The University of Savoie (France) invites applications for a 3-year 
doctoral research position to work on the compilation and analysis of an 
oral corpus of learner English, beginning in September 2006, as part of a 
team working on a multilingual spoken L2 corpus (English, French, Italian). 
Candidates must be under 25 and have obtained, or be about to obtain, a 
master’s degree in one of the countries belonging to the European Higher 
Education Area. Applicants should have a background in Second Language 
Acquisition and/or corpus linguistics, and have a good command of written 
and spoken French. The successful candidate will be expected to enrol on 
the doctoral programme at the University of Savoie, which is situated in SE 
France, between Lyon, Geneva and Turin. The research position is financed 
by the French Ministry of Education, with a monthly stipend of 1.410,33 €. 
No tuition fees are charged for the doctoral programme.

Further details of the research project and how to apply for the position 
are available on the university web-site:
https://www.univ-savoie.fr/Portail/Groupes/RECHERCHE/Ecole_Doctorale/Mobilite_LLS.pdf 


For any other information or for informal enquiries, please 
contact:  John.Osborne at univ-savoie.fr
The closing date for applications is 31 May 2006.

Note: The European Higher Education Area includes all member countries of 
the European Union, plus the following: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, 
Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Russia, Georgie, 
Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldavia, Norway, Rumania, 
Serbia-Montenegro, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican.

John Osborne


Département des Langues et Cultures Etrangères
Université de Savoie
BP 1104
73011 Chambéry Cedex
France

tel +33 (0)4 79 75 85 06
fax +33 (0)4 79 75 85 93
John.Osborne at univ-savoie.fr