Department of Language Science and Technology
Project Assistant (Full-time/Part-time) (several posts)
(Ref. 250901003)
[Appointment period: each for three to twelve months]
Duties
The appointees will assist the project leader in the project - “Innovating multilingual assessment and intervention in the education of speech therapists: Building capacity in the use of automatic speech recognition technologies for serving Chinese-speaking multilingual children”, and work in the project team with student/practicing speech therapists and other project personnel to also support studies investigating language processing in Cantonese-speaking children with normal and atypical language development (e.g. developmental language disorder). The studies involve several experimental tasks and assessments such as statistical learning tasks, nonword repetition tasks, phonological processing tasks, phonological working memory tasks, narrative comprehension and production tasks, sentence repetition tasks, hearing screening, and non-verbal IQ test. The appointees will be required to:
(a) recruit participants;
(b) assist in data collection, manual corrections of ASR-transcripts, and data coding/annotation and analysis;
(c) co-supervise student assistants in data collection and management tasks; and
(d) perform any other duties as assigned by the project leader or his/her delegates.
Qualifications
Applicants should:
(a) be a dedicated graduate holding an honours degree or equivalent in Linguistics, Speech Therapy, Psychology, or a related discipline (preferably a Master’s degree with a solid background in Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics);
(b) be a native or near-native speaker of Cantonese;
(c) preferably have experience in administering experimental studies to preschool and school-aged children; and
(d) ideally desire to pursue further study (PhD or MA/Master of Speech Therapy) and would like to accrue some related research experience before starting his/her further study.
PhD opportunity is available at the Department under the supervision of the project leader and his/her local and overseas collaborators from internationally leading research universities/institutes/centres.
Applicants are invited to contact Prof. Angel Chan via email at angel.ws.chan@polyu.edu.hk for further information.
Conditions of Service
For full-time appointments, a highly competitive remuneration package will be offered.
For part-time appointments, the remuneration rate is HK$125 per hour.
Consideration of applications will commence on 8 September 2025 until the position is filled.
Posting date: 1 September 2025