| More Information: | PhD scholarship in NLP and Second Language Acquisition
Applications are invited for a three-year PhD position in Natural
Language Processing applied to foreign language learning and teaching
at the Linguistics Center of the University of Lisbon (CLUL).
The deadline for applications is February 28, 2022. For additional
information, including salary and application details, please visit:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/733640
The aim of the PhD project is to research, develop and evaluate a
digital tool supporting the acquisition of Portuguese as a Foreign or
Heritage language. The work can build on the existing ICALL approaches
developed at the University of Tübingen for English and German
(http://icall-research.de). The goal is to support learners in
selecting texts that support noticing of key target structures and
provide practice opportunities. The computational linguistic analysis
can build on recent findings about linguistic structures that are
acquired late by heritage speakers of Portuguese and include an
empirical validation in the context of the network maintained by the
Camões Institute across the globe.
The PhD project will be co-supervised by Professor Amália Mendes
(University of Lisbon), Professor Detmar Meurers (University of
Tübingen), and Professor Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster University). The
successful applicant will be integrated in the Heritage Language
Consortium (HL2C), a strategic partnership between six European
universities and the Camões Institute, a branch of the Portuguese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Further details on the HL2C can be found
on our website: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/heritage-language/
For questions, email us at:
Amália Mendes amaliamendes@letras.ulisboa.pt
Detmar Meurers detmar.meuers@uni-tuebingen.de
Patrick Rebuschat p.rebuschat@lancaster.ac.uk |