28.5389, Support: English; German; Language Acquisition: PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Subject: 28.5389, Support:  English; German; Language Acquisition: PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2017 01:22:45
From: Katja Lochtman [Katja.Lochtman at vub.be]
Subject: English; German; Language Acquisition: PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Vrije Universiteit Brussel 
Department: Linguistics & Literary Studies 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      German (deu) 

Description:

The Center for Linguistics (CLIN) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has
an opening for a PhD fellowship for a total period of four years, starting
March - April 2018.

The position is part of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)-funded research
project entitled “The effects of written corrective feedback on L2 case
acquisition in the German prepositional phrase mediated by working memory
capacity and procedural memory”. The project is supervised by Katja Lochtman
(VUB), with Alex Housen (VUB) as co- supervisor. The project is concerned with
the effects and effectiveness of written corrective feedback on both (a) the
outcomes of the L2 learning process (by measuring not only the explicit but
also the implicit knowledge that learners acquire) as well as on (b) the
cognitive mechanisms believed to operate during the learning itself (attention
allocation, awareness), with a focus on German as a second/foreign language.

The candidate will prepare a PhD in Linguistics. Activities that the candidate
will perform include: develop and implement (i) theoretical concepts in line
with the focus of the research project and (ii) appropriate methodological
procedures for investigating these concepts; design and conduct multiple
psycholinguistic experiments (e.g. by means of eye-tracking); interpret the
results of the analyses and report on the project in conference presentations
and academic publications; by the end of the four-year term, submit and defend
a PhD dissertation based on the project.

Profile: Master degree in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language &
Literature, Psycholinguistics, Psychology or in Language Learning and
Teaching, with a master thesis on a topic relevant to the project; excellent
command of English and German. Knowledge of Dutch is an asset; knowledge of
inferential statistics and statistical software (e.g. SPSS, R) is an asset, as
are programming skills in E-Prime or Experiment Builder. The position requires
residence in Belgium, preferably in or near Brussels.

Remuneration is in accordance with the official Belgian scales for academic
personnel and bursaries.

If you are interested in this PhD project, please send your CV and a
motivation letter to Katja.Lochtman at vub.be by February 15th, 2018. Shortlisted
candidates will be invited for an interview in March 2018. The starting date
is negotiable. For more information about this project, or a more extensive
project description, please email Katja.Lochtman at vub.be or Alex.Housen at vub.be
 

Application Deadline: 15-Feb-2018 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof Katja Lochtman 
	Pleinlaan 2 
	Brussels 1050 
	Belgium 
	
Contact Information: 
	Prof. Katja Lochtman 
	Katja.Lochtman at vub.be  


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