Within the research master, it is recommended to go abroad. There are many possibilities, as can be seen on the map.
Below the map you will find a testimonial written by one of our students who went to Canada for her internship.
My research internship took place at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada), which is hosting the Sociolinguistics Research Lab (SLRL). With lots of sociolinguistic research activities and a great researcher in variationist sociolinguistics who is the director of the SLRL as well: Dr. Alexandra D’Arcy, this was the perfect spot for me to go too and explore. And – not unimportant – the west coast of Canada had a high ranking on my bucket list; now I even got to live on the best coast of Canada! The SLRL would be my home on campus in Victoria for the fall term of 2015, because of my duty as Lab Manager next to being a visiting research student. During my time on Vancouver Island, I was investigating the role of pre-teens in Victoria English language change, focusing on quotative be like (“And then she was like: oh my god, that’s so cool!”). My main focuses of the internship were arranging the interviews with the kids, going into the society and conduct the interviews myself (so that I could become an experienced sociolinguistic interviewer), transcribing those interviews and code/analyze the data. Other tasks included – among others – transcribing interviews from another corpus, maintaining and managing the speaker databases in the lab, and training and managing new research assistants to work with ELAN and to run/manage the lab. I think the greatest thing I had planned on achieving and which I have achieved eventually was to start, design, conduct, analyze and finish my own research project. Competences such as taking initiatives, working independently and improving my academic English were accomplished besides the research activities. Overall, the internship was going smoothly and I couldn’t think of a better place to have spent the four months of my research internship. Eva Smidt, Second year Research Master's Student |  |