32.1693, Support: Indo-European; English; Language Acquisition: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Subject: 32.1693, Support: Indo-European; English; Language Acquisition: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 12:09:58
From: Zeynep Sancak Sert [zeynep.s.sert at uit.no]
Subject: Indo-European; English; Language Acquisition: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

 Institution/Organization: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Department: Humanities, Social Sciences and Education 
Web Address: https://en.uit.no/enhet/hsl 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

                      Indo-European 

Description:

A PhD position is available at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty
of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. The position will be linked to
Theme 2 of AcqVA Aurora, which focuses on crosslinguistic influence in
multilingualism.

The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the position
within a reasonable time after receiving the offer.

The objective of the position is to complete research training to the level of
a doctoral degree. Admission to the PhD programme is a prerequisite for
employment, and the programme period starts on commencement of the position.

The PhD fellow position is for a period of three years and full time studies
with the possibility of an extension of the appointment period. If the
doctoral dissertation is submitted for appraisal within 3 years or within 3,5
year, the PhD candidate is qualified for a completion grant for either 12 or 6
months. The completion grant should be used to further qualification measures
such as courses in teaching in higher education, lecturing and other relevant
work at the faculty. 

AcqVA Aurora is a UiT Aurora Centre, funded for the period 2020-2024. The
highly competitive UiT Aurora Centre scheme provides funding to research
groups that demonstrate academic excellence, in order to strengthen their
capacity to be successful in the competition for larger external funding. 

The AcqVA Aurora Centre currently consists of more than 40 active researchers,
including ten professors/associate professors, a lab director, eleven
researchers/postdoctoral fellows, five MSCA postdocs, four PhD students, and
eight Professor II positions (20%), who are top, internationally recognized
leaders in our field. The group members are involved in a number of research
projects both locally and internationally, e.g. the MuMin, MultiLit, MiMS and
SALT projects financed by the Research Council of Norway, the MultiGender
project funded by the Centre for Advanced Study, and the HeLPiNG project
funded by the Tromsø Research Foundation. For further information about the
group’s work and activities, see the website of AcqVA Aurora.

Theme 2 is led by Professor Merete Anderssen and Dr. Natalia Mitrofanova and
also includes Adjunct Professor Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading) as
well as several other members from the AcqVA Aurora Centre. The aim of the
theme is to establish the nature and extent of crosslinguistic influence (CLI)
in multilingual minds. In doing so, we will work on various populations and
different age groups with the aim of teasing apart CLI from other factors
affecting the outcome in multilingual acquisition.

The focus of this Ph.D. position will be on second or third language
acquisition within a classroom setting. We welcome proposals on different
linguistic phenomena in language combinations involving Norwegian, English,
Russian, Spanish and/or German. The project can involve one or a combination
of these languages. For example, it may investigate the second language
acquisition of English by Norwegian school children in an immersion school or
in a regular classroom setting, or the L3 acquisition of Spanish by learners
who already know Norwegian and English. Another possible project would be the
acquisition of Norwegian as an L2/L3 in a classroom setting by learners with
different L1, such as in introductory Norwegian classes for children,
adolescents or adults. We solicit projects that consider what role structural
overlap plays in crosslinguistic influence and how knowledge of previously
acquired languages and crosslinguistic influence can be used in the teaching
of foreign languages.
 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205225/phd-fellow-in-multilingualism 

Contact Information: 
	Professor Merete  Anderssen
	merete.anderssen at uit.no  


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