LINGUIST List 8.973

Tue Jul 1 1997

Jobs: English, Research Position

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>

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  • Euen Jung, English teaching job
  • Joachim Niehren, Research POSITION AVAILABLE

    Message 1: English teaching job

     Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 20:05:11 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Euen Jung <jungegusun.georgetown.edu>
    Subject: English teaching job


    We would like to announce the EFL teaching job position in Seoul, South Korea. Korea University, one of the top universities in Korea, is looking for native speakers of English who can teach English conversations at the college level, mostly freshmen, beginning this September. Those who cannot teach beginning this September, but are interested in teaching beginning March, 1998 are also greatly encouraged to apply for the job. There are already 25 English native speakers at Korea University (KU) teaching English, and KU is looking for more faculty members. AS recently reported in the Washington Post (May issue), many native speakers of English from U.S. or Canada are coming to Korea to teach English and enjoy life here in Korea and make good money, in addition to earning EFL teaching experiences. The followings are the short descriptions of the job.

    REQUIREMENT : must have a M.S. or M.A. in either in TESOL or Applied LInguistics. (or who is in the final semester of his/her program and is interested in gathering the data here for the thesis. Actually, one of the English teachers at KU is writing her thesis based on the data she has been gathering in class. She is interested in comparing the American culture and Korean culture, Sociolinguistics students might be interested in the similar topic).

    DESCRIPTION 1. Contract Term: initially appointed for a period of 1 year, renewable by mutual consent.

    2.Salary: $2,200 per month Bonuses: first year of employment: 3 months salary second and subsequent years of employment: 4 months salary Plus Severance Pay of one month's salary for each complete year worked. Salary and bonuses will be paid without deduction of Korean taxes for the first two years of employment.

    3. Holiday: 2 months paid holiday per year

    4. health Insurance: good quality and reasonably priced. $ 14 per month, including routine dental treatment, covering 50 % of medical costs for treatment of minor ailments such as influenza and 80 % of the costs for serious illness.

    5.Housing: The University provides fully furnished dormitory for Foreign Language teachers, which is within walking distance of the campus. $330.00 per month, exclusive of utilities. Fully furnished with TV set, telephone, one set of bed linen, and cooking and eating utensils. A common laundry room is provided with coin-operated washing machines and dryers. The interested applicant may arrange his or her own accommodation if he or she wishes.

    6. Air fare ticket will be paid by the University.

    7. Working Hours and Teaching: 16 hours per week and may also be required to teach 1-5 hours of overtime, for which the standard overtime rate will be received. The autumn Term starts at the end of August and ends at mid DEcember. Spring term runs from the beginning of March to the end of June. Most of the students in class are freshmen, and the class is most focused on English conversations.

    For more detail, please contact us at the following address:

    The Institute of Foreign Language Studies at Korea University

    e-mail> fh1743kuccnx.korea.ac.kr Tel> 82-2-921-0068, FAX> 82-2-921-0069

    Or please contact Sarah Jung (graduate student in the Dept. of Lingusitics at Georgetown UNiversity) at the following address:

    jungegusun.georgetown.edu TEl> (703) 528-8482

    Please contact us ASAP, if you are interested in the job. The interested applicant and Korea University should contact each other by July 20th at the latest. Thank you.

    Sincerely,

    Sarah Jung

    Message 2: Research POSITION AVAILABLE

     Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 15:06:25 +0200 (MET DST)
    From: Joachim Niehren <niehrenps.uni-sb.de>
    Subject: Research POSITION AVAILABLE


    Department of Computational Linguistics Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, Germany

    A position of a researcher in computational linguists is available, in a collaboration with computer science. The position is part of the CHORUS project

    http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/cl/projects/chorus.html

    in the Special Research Division (SFB) 378, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The successful candidate is supposed to develop algorithms and architectures for semantic processing of natural language. Experience in some of the following areas is required:

    - constraints and unification - natural language processing - progamming in high-level languages

    Applicants should be graduated or hold a Ph.D in computer science or computational linguistics.

    Duration: 16 months, extendible to 5 years Salary: BAT2a (DM 60000-75000 per annum) Begin: preferably September 1, 1997 or slightly later

    Saarbruecken offers an excellent research environment in both computer science and computational linguistics. Research in these fields is conducted at the Universitaet des Saarlandes, the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and the Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science. More information is available on the world wide web.

    http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/

    Candidates should send a CV, a list of publications, and possibibly a list of referees to Dr. Joachim Niehren or Prof. Manfred Pinkal. E-mail communiation is encouraged. You can also get in touch with us at the ACL conference in Madrid. Manfred Pinkal Joachim Niehren Universitaet des Saarlandes Universitaet des Saarlandes Computerlinguistik Fachbereich Informatik Postfach 15 11 50 66041 Saarbruecken 66041 Saarbruecken Germany Germany pinkalcoli.uni-sb.de niehrenps.uni-sb.de http://coli.uni-sb.de/~pinkal/ http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~niehren/