[Corpora-List] Research Assistant Post, Reading, UK

[Paul Thompson]

Job advertisement

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Research Assistant to work on the British Academic Spoken English Corpus
Project
Application deadline: 12th March 2003
Research Assistant - Ref. R0310
Grade 1A, 2 years full time - £18,265 to £22,191 p.a.
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The School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (Reading, UK) is
looking for a research assistant to assist in the development of the
British Academic Spoken English corpus
(http://www.rdg.ac.uk/slals/base/index.htm), by filming lectures and
seminars at the university, transcribing recorded speech, and assisting
with text encoding. This is a two-year contract.

The successful applicant is expected to have a postgraduate
qualification in Applied Linguistics or equivalent, and some experience
of researching spoken language use. Experience with video recording, the
transcription of spoken language, and/or computer skills would be an
advantage.

Application forms and further details are available from the Personnel
Office, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading,
RG6 6AH. Telephone (0118) 378 6771 (answerphone). Please quote the
reference number.
Or e-mail: personnel at reading.ac.uk, giving name and full address, and
the reference number
Application forms are also available in Word/RTF format from
www.reading.ac.uk/Jobs

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Dr Paul Thompson
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Language Resource Centre
P. O. Box 241
The University of Reading
Reading RG6 6WB
Tel: 44 118 9316472
WWW: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/slals/
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