Corpora: Job offer

From: Naomi Hallan (naomi.hallan@ci.educ.lu)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 11:35:37 MET DST

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    Dear List Members,

    My Chemnitz colleagues would be grateful if you could draw people's
    attention to the following.

    Thanks -- Naomi

    Research vacancy: Internet Grammar

    The English Department at the Chemnitz University of Technology is
    looking for a graduate (linguistics/languages/teaching/...) with good
    Internet-computing skills to join our research project as soon as
    possible. Information on the project "Learner Behaviour in the
    Internet Grammar" can be found following this link
    http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/InternetGrammar/
    The position would be initially for one year with payment on the Bat
    IIa/2 (Ost) scale and the salary level dependent on age and
    experience.

    What is the Internet Grammar?
    We are building a web-based grammar-learning environment, for
    advanced learners of English. We use material from a variety of
    corpora, including our own English-German Translation Corpus, to
    provide learning material and exercises.

    Your tasks would be:
    (a) to help extend the functionality of the grammar, both for users
    and researchers, through the development of new features and the
    improvement of existing ones;
    (b) to assist with the extraction and analysis of learner data;
    (c) to maintain the existing structures, which involve html
    documents, cgi scripts, corpus search facilities and interactive
    animations, as well as conventional elements of a web-site.

      Qualifications:
      You will have a degree in a relevant subject and be able to show
      possession of the necessary software skills - such as cgi, perl or
      javascript, in addition to html - or a willingness to acquire them
      very rapidly. You should also have an interest in the use of the Web
      and corpora for language teaching and learning. You should enjoy
      working in a team and value the opportunity to help with the further
      development of our project. The working language of the project is
      English, so fluency would be a definite advantage.

      Working in Chemnitz?
      Apart from the satisfaction of helping to see an exciting research
      project to its completion, you would have the advantage of a
      stimulating university environment in a city which is growing and
      changing every day.

    Please email your CV and covering letter as soon as possible,
    preferably by July 16, to:
    Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied
    realcentre@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

    -- 
    Naomi Hallan,
    Project: 'Learner Behaviour in the InternetGrammar', Englische 
    Sprachwissenschaft, TU Chemnitz,
    Reichenhainerstr. 39, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany.  mail: 
    naomi.hallan@phil.tu-chemnitz.de
    145 route de Luxembourg, L-7374 Helmdange, Luxembourg. mail: 
    naomi.hallan@ci.educ.lu
    Please send any reply to both mail addresses -- thanks.
    



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