Can you please help me correct this paragraph?

Can you please help me correct this paragraph?

As to where I hope to go with regard to the student mobility programme, I have chosen the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, for the simple reason that I am aware the university has an interest in including Portuguese as a foreign language as part of its foreign language curriculum.

By participating in this mobility programme I would be able to give the institution the opportunity to offer Portuguese Language classes (provided that they would have me as a teacher for a period of six months) and I would also be given the opportunity to gain more experience as a Portuguese Language teacher abroad.

> This programme will not only give me the opportunity to offer myself as a Portuguese teacher ( provided they don't mind the fact that I can only teach there for a period of only 6 months), but it will help me gain more experience as a teacher, if my offer is accepted.

While teaching at the university, I would also work on my doctoral thesis. I have been collecting oral data over the past months and they are still to be processed, hence I could use that opportunity to process them and continue writing my thesis.

> Regardless of whether I will be teaching there or not, I will continue to work on my thesis when I am there, just as what I have been  doing here these past few months. I have collected  a lot of data for my thesis, but much of it is yet to be processed by me, so I thought I could use my time there to go through all of them.

Furthermore, I have chosen this institution also because of the fact that I am very much interested in Central Asia and, more precisely, in the countries that once integrated the Former Soviet Union.

> Besides that, this university is in a country that is located in Central Asia, a region that has my interest, specifically a country that was  once part of the former Soviet Union.

I would like to have a chance to experience life in Kazakhstan, as well as to improve my Russian skills (gained through a four month stay in Russia in 2010 for study reasons), acquire a basic knowledge of the Kazakh language and explore this fascinating corner of the planet Earth.

> I would therefore like to be given this opportunity, the chance for me to experience life in Kazakhstan, where I can also improve on my Russian skills-- which I have some ability after having stayed in Russia for four months in 2010 for study reasons-- as well as acquiring some basic knowledge about the Kazakh language, besides being in a place where I can do some exploration, a corner on planet Earth that really fascinates me.

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For this mobility programme I have chosen the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, chiefly because I am aware of the fact that they have recently expressed an interest in including Portuguese as a foreign language in their range of foreign languages available to study. By participating in this mobility programme I would be able to give the institution the opportunity to offer Portuguese language classes (provided that they would engage me as a teacher for a period of six months) and I would also be given the opportunity to gain more experience as a Portuguese language teacher abroad. While teaching at the university, I would also work on my doctoral thesis. I have been collecting oral data over the past months and it still has to be processed. Hence, I could use this opportunity to process it and continue writing my thesis.