31.2292, Jobs: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Utah

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Subject: 31.2292, Jobs: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Utah

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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 14:44:18
From: Catherine Scott [c.scott at utah.edu]
Subject: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Post Doc, University of Utah, USA

 
University or Organization: University of Utah 
Department: Second Language Teaching and Research Center
Job Location: Utah, USA 
Web Address: https://l2trec.utah.edu/
Job Title: Post Doctoral Research Associate
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

L2TReC invites applications for 1-year full-time post-doctoral position in
Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. L2TReC is a vibrant hub
for faculty and students with research interests in Second Language
Acquisition and L2 pedagogy. L2TReC serves as a Title VI Language Resources
Center. It coordinates research based on data generated by the State of Utah’s
ambitious Dual Language Immersion Program (http://www.utahdli.org), provides
support and training for L2 instructors at all levels, and administers the
high school portion of Utah’s Dual Immersion Program
(http://l2trec.utah.edu/bridge-program/index.php).

We are seeking a post-doctoral fellow with a background in corpus linguistics,
preferably with hands-on experience in corpus building and pedagogical
applications of corpora. The successful applicant will be expected to oversee
continued development of the Center’s Multilingual Corpus of Second Language
Speech and the Corpus of Utah DLI Writing. To date, the spoken corpus contains
samples from over 500 child and adult speakers of French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Russian, and Chinese, and the written corpus contains approximately 5 million
words of Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and German. Speech samples have been
transcribed and tagged according to CHILDES protocols. There is no expectation
that applicants will have had prior experience working with CHILDES, but the
successful candidate is expected to gain the requisite expertise upon joining
our team.

Strong text processing skills using a scripting language (Python, Perl, etc.)
and up-to-date knowledge of statistics are highly desirable. It will be the
responsibility of the successful applicant to lead further additions and
improvements to the corpora and to participate in the development of
corpus-based pedagogical materials for use in DLI classrooms. This will
require training and supervising a cadre of student research assistants in the
corpus languages (Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish)
and collaborating with foreign language teachers. The ideal candidate will
have native or near-native proficiency in one of the corpus languages as well
as English.  Applicant must be self-motivated, resourceful, very organized,
able to multi-task and prioritize and possess strong quantitative and analytic
skills. Strong writing ability is required as applicant will be expected to
contribute to grant writing efforts in support of corpus development. 

Required Qualifications:
- PhD in related field.
- Sound knowledge of corpus linguistics (annotation, text processing,
pedagogical applications) and quantitative analysis of corpus data.
- Ability to acquire new technical and/or theoretical knowledge as needed. 
- Native or near-native proficiency in spoken and written English and a high
level of proficiency in one of the corpus languages (Chinese, French, German,
Portuguese, Russian and Spanish).
- Ability to coordinate day-to-day business with the PIs to ensure that
project goals and deadlines are met. 
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team.

Desirable Qualifications:
Sufficient structural knowledge to perform analytical and corpus-based work in
one or more additional languages in the corpus. 

Desired starting date August 16, 2020 (flexible).

Review of applications begins on August 10, 2020 and will continue until the
position is filled.

Applicants should provide:
- A cover letter,
- CV, and
- A writing sample.
- Applicants should identify three references on their CV who may be contacted
to provide letters of recommendation.

Please see the application link provided below to apply.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/106321 
Contact Information:
	Director/Professor Fernando Rubio 
	Email: fernando.rubio at utah.edu 


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