LINGUIST List 9.321

Wed Mar 4 1998

Jobs: Scholarship, 2 Fellowships

Editor for this issue: Elaine Halleck <elainelinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Weiping Wu, Zhonghua Scholarship Program Update
  • Colleen Banfield, Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program
  • Sotaro Kita, Fellowship for advanced Ph.D. students at Max-Planck Institute

    Message 1: Zhonghua Scholarship Program Update

     Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:19:50 -0500
    From: Weiping Wu <weipingcal.org>
    Subject: Zhonghua Scholarship Program Update


    ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 1998: UPDATE (2/23/98) Here's the 2nd update for the Zhonghua Scholarship Program (ZSP). A brief description for the ZSP is attached at the end of this message for those who missed the announcement. If answers to your question are not included in this update, it will most likely appear in the next one. Thank you for your patience. TEACHING EFL VS STUDYING CHINESE: The ZSP is cultural exchange program that combines studying abroad, teaching and cultural education. The focus is to explore alternative ways of learning Chinese that emphasizes language acquisition in its natural contexts rather than formal classroom instruction, to provide an opportunity for teaching practicum and to promote cross-cultural understanding. The amount of EFL teaching time is between 12 to 14 hours per week to K-12 students, equal to that of scheduled time for studying Chinese. Yes, training in EFL is included as part of the orientation. Some of the recipients were actually ESL teachers who were interested in China and wanted to learn more about China. LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT: The immediate linguistic environment for the ZSP is always Mandarin Chinese, so is the language used by the personal tutor. Depending on the location of the school, participants will have a choice to study or do research with the local dialect (such as Cantonese). The larger linguistic environment will be the language used in the local area. MEDICAL INSURANCE: Every recipient is covered from September 1st, 1997 to their departure from China for ordinary and reasonable health related problems. The rules they go by are the regulations governing medical insurance for all foreigners working in the field of education in China. Some recipients may prefer to retain their insurance policy here in the States in case they have a serious problem and have to terminate the program to come back to the States for treatment.Others may just cancel theirs for the Scholarship period. It is an individual decision for each recipient. EXPENSES AND TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS: Expenses from each participants include a $500 fee to defray Orientation cost such as teacher honorarium and accommodation for the participants and a $70 fee for visa application (fees paid to the Chinese embassy is included) and group travel arrangements. WCCEC coordinates all travel arrangements so that all recipients will depart for China at the same time. NUMBER OF RECIPIENTS AT ONE SITE: To provide peer support, each host school in China will have a minimum of two recipients.

    ========== ZHONGHUA SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (ZSP) ========== The ZSP, jointly established by the Cross-Culture Education Center of Washington (WCCEC) and educational institutions in China, is a scholarship program open to all native speakers of English who are interested in various aspects of China and the Chinese language. There is no restriction on the applicant's nationality, school affiliation, program and major, or Chinese language proficiency. The scholarship offers an opportunity for the recipient to live in China from September every year to July of the following year. Each recipient is provided with (a) round-trip travel expenses (US departure point to destination); (b) room and board; (c) medical insurance during the scholarship period; (d) a monthly stipend (equal to the monthly salary of a local university professor); (e) a paid vocation in winder during the Chinese New Year; and (f) a paid cultural tour at the end of the program. For more information, please contact Dr. Weiping Wu, Program Director, WCCEC, 9709 Kings Crown Court, #201, Fairfax, VA 22031, U.S.A. Fax:(703)934-8855.

    Message 2: Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program

     Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:34:02 -0800
    From: Colleen Banfield <colleenbmorgan.ucs.mun.ca>
    Subject: Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program


    Graduate Teaching Fellowship Program Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

    Commencing in the Fall semester 1998, the Faculty of Arts and the School of Graduate Studies will offer Graduate Teaching Fellowships at the doctoral level valued at approximately $15,000 CDN per annum in English, Folklore, History, Linguistics and Sociology. Teaching Fellowships are a professional development initiative designed to develop the teaching skills of successful applicants as well as their abilities as research scholars. In this three year program, instruction in pedagogy and experience as a teaching assistant leads to primary responsibility for up to two introductory courses per year under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

    The Linguistics department at Memorial University offers Ph.D. programs in a range of specializations. The department's particular strengths lie in languages of the local area (aboriginal languages of eastern North America, regional varieties of English and French) and in historical/comparative linguistics (especially Indo-European, Bantu and Algonquian).

    Further information can be obtained by e-mailing the Linguistics Department (linguistmorgan.ucs.mun.ca) or from the department's website (http://www.mun.ca/linguistics). Written inquiries can be sent to:

    Department of Linguistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NF A1B 3X9 CANADA Telephone: (709) 737-8134 FAX: (709) 737-4000

    Completed applications for September 1998 should be forwarded to the Linguistics department as soon as possible.



    - -------------------------- Colleen Banfield Administrative Secretary Department of Linguistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NF A1B 3X9 CANADA Telephone: (709) 737-8134 FAX: (709) 737-4000 E-mail: colleenbmorgan.ucs.mun.ca Room: SN-3050B

    Message 3: Fellowship for advanced Ph.D. students at Max-Planck Institute

     Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:13:09 +0100 (MET)
    From: Sotaro Kita <Sotaro.Kitampi.nl>
    Subject: Fellowship for advanced Ph.D. students at Max-Planck Institute


    PhD Fellowships Available

    The Language and Cognition Group (formerly the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics has doctoral student fellowships available. The Group is concerned with the relation between language and cognition, especially as evidenced by cross-linguistic studies. Fellowships provide full support (including fieldwork) for two years, renewable for one further year. Residence is in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, except during fieldwork, but theses may be examined by Universities elsewhere. Preconditions are:

    (a) good linguistic training, especially in descriptive linguistics or linguistic anthropology; (b) some experience of fieldwork in non-Western languages and communities; (c) willingness to undertake further linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in a non-Western community for the PhD, and to work in collaborative projects (currently focussed on 'Spatial language and cognition', 'Speech and Gesture', and 'Argument structure (verbal semantics)'; (d) completion of prerequisites for entry into a PhD program as determined by the University (and country) where the applicant intends to submit.

    Applicants who meet these preconditions should send a letter of application, a Curriculum Vitae and the names of 3 referees to:

    David Wilkins Language and Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics P.O. Box 310 6500 AH Nijmegen The Netherlands

    For further information see \\www.mpi.nl or write Wilkinsmpi.nl