Category: Announcements

ALUMNA ARIANNA PUOPOLO TELLS US ABOUT THE TEACHING ASSISTANT PROGRAM IN FRANCE

Recent undergrad alum Arianna Puopolo is spending a year in France on the Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF). If you might be interested in an opportunity like this after graduating, read on! When not working in a French classroom Arianna has been traveling to Poland, Switzerland, Belgium,… Not the worst way to spend your time.

Arianna writes:

The French Ministry of Education actually created TAPIF. English assistants (like me) in France work for the French government and qualify for a work visa and social security. It’s pretty cool! The official websites are https://www.tapif.org/ or http://www.frenchculture.org.

Qualified English assistants must be college graduates, demonstrate some level of competency working as an organizer or leader, and have some proficiency in French (fluency and/or complete proficiency is not a requirement). There are no minimum GPA or work experience requirements.

Applicants must submit a personal statement, provide two letters of recommendation (one attesting to the applicant’s competency in French and the other should speak to his/her/their ‘leadership skills’), a resume and official university transcripts.

France is divided into several “academies” (kind of like school
districts). Applicants may indicate the three academies they would most like to be placed in. I would strongly recommend that applicants NOT apply to the Lille academy. The Lille Academie is the third largest in France and the majority of it comprises small (NOT quaint) former coal mining districts. The small towns here are anything but provincial. Many have very weak economies and (because they were founded for industry rather than on the whim of a developing community) lack a city center or other points of interest. I know. I’m here.

Applicants are paid something like 960 euro every month, but after taxes, the net salary is 790 euro. Contracts are seven months long, and, in those seven months, there are eight weeks of school vacation. Assistants are paid for the entire month regardless of the number of vacation days during that month.

It’s a pretty wonderful program, if you ask me.

Colloquium by Larry Horn this Friday

There will be a colloquium by Larry Horn (Yale University) this Friday, November 18th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”, and you can find the abstract here.

Horn will also lead a discussion on Thursday from 5 to 6:30 in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249), based on Giannakidou’s recent paper on negative polarity item licensing, available here.

19th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL (1st & 2nd of March 2012)

Papers for this conference are invited in all areas of linguistics and TESOL. Students from any educational institution are strongly encouraged to submit their research and share insights they have discovered in the field. Presenters can choose between oral and poster presentations. The best presentations will be awarded the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize in Linguistics (up to a total of $1500.00 USD in prize money). Poster and oral presentations are considered, accepted, and judged as equal counterparts.

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, 21 November 2011. For more information, see the posting outside the Linguistics Department office.

Undergraduate Research Experience at Oklahoma State University

From OSU:


We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our summer research experience for undergraduates again in summer 2012. The goal of this program is to provide 12 undergraduate students with an in-depth, hands-on research experience focused on the biological basis of animal and human behavior. Students will be trained in the application of the scientific method to develop hypotheses, design and conduct research studies involving either animal or human subjects. Students will also be trained in the responsible conduct of research. Students will be mentored by full-time, Ph.D.-level faculty members who are tenured/tenure-track faculty with strong programs of research. Students selected for the program will be expected to devote at least 40 hours a week for research; thus, it is not possible to be enrolled in courses or other activities during the program.

Program dates: June 2, 2012-July 29, 2012
Application deadline: February 1, 2012

For more information about compensation and eligibility, and for further details, click here.

Undergraduates: Three-month Internships with LINGUIST List

The LINGUIST List has announced the availability of a limited number of internship positions for the summer of 2012 at the LINGUIST offices in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor, Michigan. Internships are available for a three-month period between May and August 2012 and pay a modest wage.

Interns will have the opportunity to participate in the daily operations of the LINGUIST List and its parent organization, the Institute for Language Information and Technology (ILIT) at Eastern Michigan University. ILIT serves the discipline of linguistics by providing digital tools and services that sustain the scientific analysis of language and by disseminating high-quality language data and linguistic information. In addition to the LINGUIST List website and mailing list, ILIT manages a number of grant-funded projects that develop the cyberinfrastructure of linguistics. To learn more, click here!

UCSC at the LSA

The preliminary program of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, to be held January 5-8, 2012, in Portland, Oregon, has now been posted. WHASC’s first reading of it reveals an unusually hefty UCSC presence. Among those delivering papers are grad students Ryan Bennett, Nick Deschenes, and Matt Tucker, and faculty members Amy Rose Deal, Wendell Kimper, and Geoffrey Pullum (emeritus). Bill Ladusaw will be the discussant on a panel about the undergraduate major in Linguistics. Grad student Robert Henderson will present a joint poster with alum Scott AnderBois (Ph.D. 2011, now University of Connecticut). Many other alums will be presenting papers, including Ph.D. alums Pete Alrenga (Boston University), Vera Gribanova (Stanford), Chris Kennedy (Chicago), Ruth Kramer (Georgetown), Vera Lee-Schoenfeld (University of Georgia), Anya Lunden (University of Georgia), Jason Merchant (Chicago), and Rachel Walker (USC), as well as B.A. alums Joseph Sabbagh (University of Texas, Arlington) and Mark Sicoli (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). On Friday evening, Jorge Hankamer will be inducted as a member of the 2012 class of LSA Fellows. On Saturday evening, the Presidential address will be delivered by Sandy Chung, Manuel F. Borja, and Matt Wagers.

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