Responsibilities

The PhD project is being hosted by two research institutes: the Centre for Language studies (CLS) in the Faculty of Arts and the Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC) in the Faculty of Social Sciences. The project is part of a research programme investigating the processing of formulaic expressions (FEs). The project’s aim is to longitudinally study the production of FEs by L2 learners as a function of training/exposure, FE transparency, mutual information, and frequency. 

On-line experiments, involving various elicitation techniques (reading aloud texts, listening and repeating utterances, sentence completion of written and auditory prompts and CLOZE exercises) will be repeatedly conducted in different phases of FE training, which will be provided through a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL).

Work environment

The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2,700 students. The departments collaborate closely in teaching and research. 
Research at the Faculty of Arts is embedded in two research institutes: the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (HLCS) and the Centre for Language Studies (CLS). 
The project is embedded within the CLS research theme ‘Language in Society’ and will be supervised by Prof. dr. A. Dijkstra (DCC) and Dr H. Strik (CLS). 
CLS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and encourages applications from women and minorities. The Radboud University offers a parental leave scheme and on-campus day care.

What we expect from you

Preference will be given to candidates with an MA- degree in Computational or Applied Linguistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, Cognitive Science, or Education. 
Candidates should have: 
- programming skills, e.g. Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, C/C++; 
- excellent analytic and statistical / methodological skills; 
- experience in research; 
- reasonable fluency in Dutch; 
- excellent command of written and spoken English.

What we have to offer

We offer you:
- employment: 1,0 fte;
- in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
- the starting salary is €2,083 per month on a full-time basis, the salary will increase to €2,664 per month in the fourth year;
- you will be appointed as a PhD student for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by another 2,5 years; 
- you will be classified as a PhD student (promovendus) in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO).

Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions?

Would you like to know more? 
Further information on: Language in society 
Further information on: ISLA: Idiomatic Second Language Acquisition 

Prof. Dr. Ton Dijkstra 
Telephone: +3124-36 15639 
E-mail: t.dijkstra<στο>donders.ru.nl 

Dr. Helmer Strik 
Telephone: +3124 3616104 
E-mail: w.strik<στο>let.ru.nl

Applications

Are you interested? 
Please include with your application a motivation letter (attn. of HRM Department), CV and any required attachments. You should upload these documents using 'Apply directly'. 
- review of applications will begin immediately and applications will be considered until November 15, 2014; Initial starting date from the beginning of 2015; 
- the selection process will include an assessment.