We are happy to announce two positions as

Research Associate in English Linguistics (m/f/d) (65% of regular working hours; pay group 13 TV-L)

The positions have a start date of 1 November 2023 and are limited until 31 October 2026.

Information on the project: The employment is in the project “Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency”, funded by the German Research Foundation. The project is a joint venture among the universities of Bamberg, Hamburg and Freiburg. It aims at the empirical analysis of complexity, accuracy and fluency as important constructs in the study of second language acquisition. To this end, a corpus of spoken and written production data from learners of English as a foreign language will be completed and annotated. In this corpus, the aforementioned constructs and their interactions will be investigated and contextual and social factors (e.g. motivation, socio-economic status) will be included in order to model the course of second language acquisition of English in the German context. The knowledge gained in this applied project will be used in the training of teachers as well as in the optimization of the development of textbooks and materials.

Task description: The main tasks of the research associate are research-related and will comprise scientific and organizational support of the principal investigators, independent planning and implementation of data collection at schools, linguistic annotation and analysis of corpus data, as well as engaging in related publication activities.

One of the posts is located at the University of Hamburg and supervised by Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs. The other post is located at the University of Bamberg and supervised by PD Dr. Valentin Werner. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. For details on the specific requirements, desired qualifications and respective application procedures please refer to the relevant job ads:

For the position in Hamburg: German version: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=3d2dafcd... English version: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=7f27a...

For the position in Bamberg: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_Ste...

Application deadline: 15 August 2023 for the position in Bamberg and 24 August 2023 for the position in Hamburg