List of Abbreviations

B=Book (please state single/joint authored, edited, etc);

A=Article;

CB=Course-book;

R=Reader;

Rp=Report;

MM=Multimedia materials

SW=Software

Cf=Conference-paper ;

Ch= Chapter in edited book.

Name: Dennis Ager Institution: University of Aston

E-mail address: d.e.ager@aston.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Language policy in France

Keywords: Policy - French language - identity - Toubon

Publications/Results to Date: B. (2000). Identity, Insecurity, Image; France and and language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Name: Farid Aitsiselmi Institution: University of Bradford

E-mail address: faitsiselmi@bradford.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Black Blanc Beur: La Langue des jeunes Français

Keywords: Language - identity - immigration

Project Collaborators: Danielle Robinson (Bradford)

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*:

Publications/Results to Date:

Edited volume of Interface 5 (2000) - Bradford Studies in Language Culture and Society

Brief Description of the Research:

Descriptions and characteristics of the language used by young French nationals especially of North African origin

- Pedagogical applications/implications

- Language and identity

- Rap poetry and songs

These issues were addressed at a one-day AFLS workshop. Some of the papers will be published in the volume above.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Eve-Maric Aldridge Institution: University of Portsmouth

E-mail address: eve-marie.aldridge@port.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Qdesigner as a tool for students' learning and

assessment in French language and Language Awareness.

Keywords: French - French linguistics - autonomous learning - CAA (computer-aided

assessment) - CAL (computer-aided learning)

Project Collaborators: Jean-Bernard Adrey

Project Funded By: University of Portsmouth Teaching & Learning Initiative

Intended Publication*: A (AFLS/CILT publication: Technology and the Advanced

Language Learner);

A: in Cahiers de I'APLIUT - to be published in June 1998;

Cf : AFLS 1998 annual conference

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research:

1. Explore the flexibility of Qdesigner to enhance students' knowledge and beaming in French language and Language Awareness.

2. Explore the time-saving device offered by the software for assessment purposes.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.): Any tips from colleagues who

have used Qmaster/Qdesigner most welcome. Any reference on research linked to

Qmaster/Qdesigner most appreciated.

Name: Eve-Marie Aldridge Institution: University of Portsmouth

E-mail address: eve-marie.aldridge@port.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

Keywords:

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*:

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: To acquire all TLTP/TELL material produced for modern languages and work on how to integrate them smoothly into the curriculum of our various degree programmes.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Eve-Marie Aldridge Institution: University of Portsmouth

E-mail address: eve-marie.aldridge@port.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

Keywords:

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*:

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: To produce a multi-media programme to help students recognise specificity of oral French such as the oral encoding of grammatical and syntactical features, and generally to help with transcription and comprehension exercises by tagging sound to script.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Nigel Armstrong Institution: University of Leeds

E-mail address: n.r.armstrong@leeds.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Projects:

1. Book on French–English translation from a linguistic approach

2. Book on linguistic change as a reflex of social change in French and English

Keywords:

1. Translation, comparative linguistics

2. Sociolinguistics, sociology

Project Collaborators None

Project Funded By: Self

Intended Publication*:

1. 2003/4

2. Still at planning stage

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Please include my project details in the Database of Research in Modern Language Studies being developed by Oxford Brookes, CILT and the Institutes of Romance and Germanic Studies, University of London ? Yes o

Name: Gertrud Aub-Buscher Institution: University of Hull (retired)

E-mail address: g.e.buscher@hull.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: (a) Vocabulary of Trinidad French-lexifier Creole

(b) Socio-linguistic situation in the French West Indies

(c) Language policy in the Caribbean DOM

Keywords: Creole/lexis/sociolinguistics/language policy

Project Collaborators -

Project Funded By: -

Intended Publication*: (a) B – single-authored

(b) A – single authored

(c) B – single-authored

Publications/Results to Date:

(a) ‘Compiling dictionaries of Creole languages: theoretical and practical problems.’ In From Contact to Creole and Beyond. London: University of Westminster Press, 1995. 229-34. 1 of Westminster of Creolistics Series. Gen. ed. Philip Baker.

(b) French and French-based Creoles: the case of the French Caribbean, in French Today, ed. C. Sanders. Cambridge: CUP, 1993

(c) ‘Linguistic paradoxes: French and Creole in the West Indian DOM at the turn of the century’. Submitted for publication

Brief Description of the Research:

(a) Study of the lexis of Creole which has lived in isolation from French for well over a century.

(b) The changing relationship between French and Creole in the West Indian DOMs.

(c ) Recent changes in language policy in Martinique and Guadeloupe

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Wendy Ayres-Bennett Institution: Department of French

University of Cambridge

E-mail address: wmb1001@cam.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France

Keywords: socio-historical linguistics

Project Collaborators

Project Funded By: AHRB

Intended Publication*: B

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Research Title: Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century

France

Start Date: Unknown

End Date: Unknown

Principle contact: Dr Wendy Ayres-Bennett

Institution: Cambridge (University of)

Collaborators:

Languages: French

Keywords: , linguistics

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source: Arts and Humanities Research Board

Outcome 1: Book to be published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

Name: lan Baillie Institution: University of Salford

E-mail address: i.c.baillie@int-inst.salford.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Teaching foreign languages to non-specialist linguists

Keywords: teaching - languages - non-specialist

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: A, Cf

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

*B=Book (please state singleljoint authored, edited, etc)

A=Article CB=Course-book R=Reader Rp=Report

MM=Multimedia materials SW=Software Cf=Conference-paper

Name: Cécile Bauvois Institution: Université de Mons

E-mail address: Cecile.Bauvois@umh.ac.be

Title of Current Research Project: sexolectal variation

Keywords: sex, gender, sociolinguistics

Project Directors : Marie-Louise Moreau

Project Funded By: Université de Mons-Hainaut

Intended Publication*: PhD thesis

Publications/Results to Date:

Livres

Moreau, Marie-Louise et Bauvois Cécile (1998) L’accommodation comme mesure de l’insécurité linguistique. Locutrices et locuteurs belges face à des interlocuteurs français et belges

In Pascal Singy (Ed.), Les femmes et l’insécurité linguistique Neuchâtel : Delachaux et Niestlé, 61-73

Bauvois, Cécile et Diricq, Bertrand (1999) L’oreille géographique des Montois : des facteurs qui influencent l’identification d’un locuteur

In Thierry Bulot (Ed.) Langage et identité urbaine : le discours épilinguistique en situation urbaine à Rouen, Venise, Athènes et Mons, Paris : L’Harmattan, 197-215

B. Armstrong, Nigel, Beeching, Kate et Bauvois, Cécile (eds) (2001). La langue française au féminin. Le sexe et le genre affectent-ils la variation linguistique? Paris: L’Harmattan

Ch. (2001). L’assourdissement des consonnes finales en français : une variation sexolectale atypique. In: Armstrong, Nigel, Beeching, Kate et Bauvois, Cécile (Eds)

A. (1997) Profession, sexe et registre : les enseignants perçoivent-ils différemment la formalité d’épreuves linguistiques ?

Revue PArole, 3-4, 233-249

Brief Description of the Research: Evaluating sexolectal variation in Belgian French : does it exist ? is it comparable to sexolectal variation in English ?

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Kate Beeching Institution: University of the West of England, Bristol

E-mail address: kate.beeching@uwe.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Politeness and linguistic change/The Bristol corpus of spoken French – digital sound-files online

Keywords: spoken corpora - pragmatic particle - gender - sociolinguistic

Project Collaborators: Jeanine Treffers-Daller (for the spoken corpus)

Project Funded By: Application has been made to the AHRB Resource Enhancement fund to digitise the recorded material and attach it to the transcriptions on a web-site

Intended Publication*: Web-site + archived with the AHDS/Oxford Text Archive

Publications/Results to Date:

Conference contributions

The function of hein in men’s and women’s speech. Sociolinguistics Symposium, UWE, April 2000.

Le rôle des particules hein et quoi dans le discours des hommes et des femmes. AFLS conference, Quebec, September 2000.

Sex, variation and change:discourse/pragmatic markers in contemporary French. 3rd.UK Variation Conference - York - 19-22 July 2001

Pan-European politeness? An exploration of the universality of the rules of social interaction. AFLS Conference September 2001 Louvain-la-Neuve

“Collecte et transcription d’un corpus sociolinguistique : le Corpus Bristol”. Colloque “Journée Corpus oraux” organisée par ATALA, Paris, 25 mai 2002.

“Sociolinguistic and stylistic variation: the interface between linguistics and language teaching” June 2002, CILT conference: Setting the agenda: Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies in Higher Education. Manchester.

“Pragmaticalisation, politesse et changement linguistique : perspectives panchroniques”. AFLS Conference, St.Andrews, 31 August-1st. September 2002.

Publications

(1999) .The social significance of gender-linked features in French. Women in French Studies, Vol. 7,

(2000). “Women and Language.” Chapter in Tidd, U. & Gregory, A. (eds.) Women in contemporary France. Berg,

(2001). “Repair strategies and social interaction in spontaneous spoken French : the pragmatic particle enfin”. In Journal of French Language Studies, 11, 1, 23-40.

(2001). “La fonction de la particule pragmatique enfin dans le discours des hommes et des femmes”.In Armstrong, Nigel, Cécile Bauvois, C. & Kate Beeching (eds) La langue française au féminin. Le sexe et le genre affectent-ils la variation linguistique? Paris: L’Harmattan, 101-122.

(2001) “L’incise à l’oral”. Chapter in Hintze, Marie-Anne, Tim Pooley and Anne Judge (eds.). French accents: Phonological and sociolinguistic perspectives. London: AFLS/CILT, 73-95. ISBN 1-902031-95-4,

B. Armstrong, Nigel, Cécile Bauvois & Kate Beeching (eds) (2001). La langue française au féminin. Paris: L’Harmattan.

In press: Monograph : Gender, politeness and pragmatic particles in French. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.

In preparation -

1) Edited volume : Language and Gender in British English : ten empirical studies

2) Journal article “Synchronic evidence for diachronic change : the pragmatic particle quand même”.

Brief Description of the Research:

Based on a corpus of spontaneous spoken French, currently available on my web-site : http://www.uwe.ac.uk/facults/les/staff/kb/CORPUS.pdf , my research work explores the functions of pragmatic particles and their differential usage according to age, sex and educational background. Initial investigations have suggested that sex plays a significant role in differentiating speakers' usage of these features. In addition, factors relating to sociability and politeness in its broadest sense are being investigated as a possible locus for linguistic change.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Parties interested in establishing a larger British corpus of spoken French which could be used for a number of different purposes - lexical and syntactic as well as pragmatic research - might like to consider collaborating, particularly as transcription is extremely time-consuming.

I would also be interested to speak to researchers working in the area of pragmaticalisation.

Research Title: Pragmaticalisation, politeness and semantic change

Start Date: 1/2003

End Date: 12/2006

Principle contact: Dr Kate Beeching

Institution: West of England (University of the)

Summary: Aims and objectives The project aims to substantiate claims that language change arises primarily in social situations, not, as previously asserted, for language-internal reasons. In particular, the project aims to test the hypothesis that language change occurs in those contexts where considerations of politeness and face motivate the use of mitigating expressions. Though vague in meaning and often dismissed as;tics; or fillers, mitigators are highly prevalent in everyday speech and may be associated with a particular social identity. This empirical, corpus-based, investigation of their evolution in French will test my contention that they may be subject to rapid change, because of their distributional frequency and their strong emblematic quality, and that this change occurs through a process of pragmaticalisation.

Languages: French , German

Keywords: , pragmatic particles

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source:

Outcome 1: Beeching,K, Gender, politeness and pragmatic particles in French. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 2002.

Outcome 2: Beeching, K, 'Pragmatic particles - polite but powerless? Tone-group terminal hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French' in Multilingua, 2004, 21-1/2: 61-84.

Outcome 3: Beeching, K,'Synchronic and diachronic variation: the how and why of sociolinguistic corpora.' In Paul Rayson and Dawn Archer (eds.) Corpus Linguistics around the world. Forthcoming. Rodopi. (In their Language and Computers book series.)

Outcome 4: Beeching, K, 'Politeness markers in French: hein and quoi in the Tourist Office'. Article in Special issue of Journal of Politeness Research, (Vol. 1, Issue 2) edited by Kate Beeching & Sara Mills, Politeness at Work, 2005.

Outcome 5: Beeching, K, 'Politeness-induced semantic change: the case of quand même'. Forthcoming.

Name: Eric Bel Institution: University of Teesside

E-mail address: c.bel@tees.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Teaching languages and the World Wide Web

Keywords: Teachers - Web - changes - autonomy - good practice - dissemination

Project Collaborators: W Haworth (Liverpool JMU), M Shade (Brighton), E Woodrough

(Exeter)

Project Funded By: HEFCE FDTL

Intended Publication*: A, Rp, MM, Cf

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: Dissemination of good practice in use of Web in language teaching and learning in UK HE (through workshops, case studies). Survey of current practice: analysis of constraints, limitations, needs; action research. Design of language learning and teaching website.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Dounia Bissar Institution: London Metropolitan University

E-mail address: d.bissar@londonmet.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: discourse-based approach to grammar teaching as applied to French

Keywords: discourse, grammar, reference

Project Collaborators

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*:

Publications/Results to Date:

(2000) ‘Grammar, consciousness-raising and independent study: ways of improving the learner’s experience’, in M. Fay and D. Ferney (eds) Current Trends in Modern Languages Provision, CILT, p.178-192

(2000) ‘Assessment on a fully accredited Open Language', in A. Hübner, T. Ibarz and S. Laviosa (eds) Assessment and Accreditation for Languages, CILT, p.37-47

(1998) ‘The discourse-based approach to grammar and its relevance to language teaching’ in Proceedings of the IWLP 7th National Conferenc.e Sheffield Hallam University, p.25-37

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Zoë Boughton Institution: University of Exeter

E-mail address: z.c.boughton@ex.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Phonological variation in contemporary standard French (PhD project)

Keywords: French language - sociolinguistics - social/regional variation - standardisation - levelling - accent identification - perceptual dialectology - folk linguistics

Project Collaborators: Nigel Armstrong (supervisor), University of Leeds

Project Funded By: University of Newcastle research committee studentship

Intended Publication*: Cfs and As

Publications/Results to Date:

Cf. (1998) ‘La standardisation phonologique dans le français septentrional’. Paper presented to AFLS Workshop Les accents des Français. London Guildhall University,.

A. (1999) With N. Armstrong: ‘Identification and evaluation responses to a French accent: some results and issues of methodology’. Revue Parole, 5/6: 27-60.

A. (2000).With N. Armstrong: ‘Absence de repères régionaux et relâchement de la prononciation’. LINX (Revue des linguistes de l’Université Paris X – Nanterre), 42: 59–71.

Ch. (2001). ‘Methodological approaches to the study of French accent identification’, in Marie-Anne Hintze, Tim Pooley and Anne Judge, eds, French Accents: Phonological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. London, AFLS / CiLT Publications, pp. 218–39.

Brief Description of the Research: Labovian data-collection surveys have been conducted in two medium-sized northern French cities, Nancy and Rennes. So far, analysis of evaluative data only has suggested that speakers of oïl French may find it easier to locate other oïl speakers socially than regionally. Analysis of behavioural data to be completed.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Philip Caron Institution: University of Limoges, France

E-mail address: caron@unilim.fr

Title of Current Research Project: Electronic version of the Dictionnaire Critique de la

Langue Française by Abbott J F Férand

Keywords: Lexicography - early dictionary databases - history of French language

Project Collaborators: Louise Dagenais, Universitd de Montréal, Canada

G Gonfroy, Université de Limoges, France

Project Funded By: C N R S, Rdgion Limousin

Intended Publication*: SW and Cp

Publications/Results to Date: An experimental version of 33% of the dictionary is being prepared.

CCH papers no. 2 pp 89-105.1 no. 4 pp 173-182

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments(Advice, appeals for information,etc.): : A joint project of editing historical dictionaries of the French language is launched with R Wooldridge (University of

Toronto)

Name: Janice Carruthers Institution: Queen's University, Belfast

E-mail address: j.carruthers@qub.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Problems and Perspectives. Studies in the Modern French Language. (Former title: A linguistic description of French)

Keywords: Syntax - morphology - lexis - phonology

Project Collaborators: W Ayres-Bennett, R Temple

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: B (co-authored)

Publications/Results to Date: Published by Longman in 2001.

Brief Description of the Research: The book looks at a number of problematic areas in the phonology, morphology, syntax and lexis of French and encourages the reader to think critically about different ways of approaching, describing and explaining these issues.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Janice Carruthers Institution: Queen's University, Belfast

E-mail address: j.carruthers@qub.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Tense, Orality and Narration: the case of the néo- conte.

Keywords: Tense - narration - oral French -storytelling

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: A (forthcoming in French Studies)

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: An exploratory study of tense patterning in the contemporary French oral néo-conte.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Janice Carruthers

Institution: Queen's University, Belfast

E-mail address: j.carruthers@qub.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: A problem in sociolinguistics methodology : investigating a rare syntactic form

Keywords: Sociolinguistics - syntax

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: A

Publications/Results to Date: Published in JFLS in 1999.

Brief Description of the Research: A discussion paper on a number of possible approaches to investigating rare syntactic forms. Much of the paper will concern fieldwork methodology and will be based on a project on the passé surcomposé.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Janice Carruthers Institution: Queen's University, Belfast

E-mail address: j.carruthers@qub.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Temps et oralité dans le conte et le néo-conte

Keywords: tense – narration – oral French - storytelling

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: A Paper given at the Chronos conference 2002

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: Article comparing the types of temporal and aspectual patterning found in two different types of oral sotrytelling in modern French – the traditional story and the néo-conte.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Janice Carruthers Institution: Queen's University, Belfast

E-mail address: j.carruthers@qub.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Oral Narration in Modern French. A Linguistic Analysis of Temporal Petterns.

Keywords: Narration – tense – oral French – syntax – storytelling.

Project Collaborators:

Project Funded By: (Leave to complete project funded by AHRB)

Intended Publication*: B

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: This book will explore in detail the temporal patterns found in a corpus of oral narrations; traditional storytelling, “new” storytelling and conversational narration. The core of the book will concern the relationship between orality and tense, looking in particular at tense switching, but also at the use of specific tense such as the imparfait narratif and the pluperfect, and at other elements of the syntax such as adverbials.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Jim Coleman Institution: Open University

E-mail address: j.a.coleman@open.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Residence abroad

Keywords: Residence Abroad – Second Language Acquisition – motivation – attitudes – individual variation

Project Collaborators: Duisburg and Bochum Universities

Project Funded By: Academic Research Collaboration programme of BC/DAAD

Intended Publication*: B single-authored, As, MMs, Cfs

Publications/Results to Date:

Residence Abroad and University Language Learning, in H. Pürschel (Ed.), Translation and Language Testing. Proceedings of a Conference in Memory of Christine Klein-Braley, special number of Fremdsprachen und Hochschule, in press.

Language Learner Attitudes and Student Residence Abroad: new quantitative and qualitative insights, in D. Killick & M. Parry (Eds.), Mapping the Territory: the Poetics and Praxis of Languages and Intercultural Communication, Leeds Metropolitan University, in press.

Représentations de l’autre : impact d’un séjour prolongé à l’étranger, in G. Zarate (ed.), special number of Mots, in press.

What is ‘Residence Abroad’ for? Intercultural competence and the linguistic, cultural, academic, personal and professional objectives of student residence abroad, Conference Proceedings of >Fuzzy Boundaries: Modern Languages and the Humanities conference=, (Institute for Romance Studies, November 1998), London, CILT, in press.

Stereotypes, objectives and the Auslandsaufenthalt, in Reinhard Tenberg (ed.), Intercultural Perspectives ‑ Images of Germany in Education and the Media, Munich, Iudicium, 1999, pp.145-159.

Brief Description of the Research:

Related projects, some linked to the FDTL Residence Abroad Project, using qualitative as well as quantitative methods to replicate and refine the findings of the 1993/95 Europpean Language Proficiency Survey; examining objectives, attitudes, motivations, changes in proficiency. Developing tools to explore changes in linguistic and intercultural compoetence through residence abroad. Funding bids made to conduct empirical research in this field.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Aidan Coveney Institution: Exeter University

E-mail address: a.b.coveney@ex.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Variability in subject pronouns in spoken French

Keywords: variation, pronouns

Project Collaborators: N.A

Project Funded By: AHRB, University of Exeter

Intended Publication*: Cf, Articles

Publications/Results to Date:

(2000) 'Vestiges of nous and the 1^st person plural verb in informal spoken French', Language Sciences, 22: 447-481

Brief Description of the Research:

Drawing on a corpus of spoken French, the project examines several aspects of the use of subject pronouns from a broadly variationist, sociolinguistic perspective.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Jean-Marc DEWAELE Institution: Birkbeck College, University of London

E-mail address: j.dewaele@french.bbk.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Variation in French interlanguage, bilingualism, bilingual education, multiple language acquisition

Keywords: synchronic variation, individual differences, interlanguage, personality, sociobiographic variables, mental lexicon, accuracy, fluency, complexity, in/formality

Project Collaborators : n/a

Project Funded By: -

Intended Publication*:

Focus on French a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches. (edited volume) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Publication in 2003.

Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism. (with Li Wei and Alex Housen) Publication in 2002. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter (Series editor: Joshua Fishman).

Bilingualism: Basic Principles and Beyond. (with Li Wei and Alex Housen) Publication in 2003. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. (Series editor: John Edwards).

Special issue (2003) of the International Journal of Bilingualism. Title: New directions in the study of bilingual memory (with A. Pavlenko and R. Schrauf).

Special issue (2002) of Estudios de Sociolinguistica. Title: Bilingualism and emotion (with A. Pavlenko).

Special issue (2002) of Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère – AILE. Title: L’acquisition de la variation en français langue étrangère (with R. Mougeon).

Special issue (2004) of International Review of Applied Linguistics. Title: The acquisition of sociolinguistic and pragmatic norms in a foreign language (with R. Mougeon).

(to appear) Socio-pragmatic failure and the implications for instructed language learning. In A. Housen & M. Pierrard (eds.), Selected Papers from the First Conference on Instructed Language Learning. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.

(to appear) Productivity and lexical diversity in native and non-native speech: A study of cross-cultural effects. In V. Cook (ed.), The effects of the second language on the first. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. (second author: A. Pavlenko)

(to appear) The role of psycholinguistic factors in the development of fluency amongst advanced learners of French. (first author: R. Towell). In J.-M. Dewaele (ed.), Focus on French a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

(to appear) Vous or tu ? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope. International Review of Applied Linguistics.

(to appear) Variation, chaos et système en interlangue française. AILE.

(to appear) Introduction. In J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen & L. Wei (eds.), Bilingualism: Basic Principles and Beyond. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. (second and third authors: A. Housen & L. Wei).

(submitted) The computational model of L2 acquisition and its implications for second language instruction (first author: R. Foth). In D. Véronique (ed.) Special Issue of Marges Linguistiques (2003).

Publications/Results to Date: (only A)

(2000) Invasion de la banalité dans les manuels de français en Flandre. In J. Eichperger (ed.), Roeland, dynamiek en talen voor de jeugd. Gent: vzw Roeland, 209-211. (first author: J. Dewaele)

(2000) Néerlandophones - Francophones: liberté, égalité, fraternité ?. In Labeau, E (éd.), France-Belgique: des frères ennemis de la langue de chez nous?, Québec : Centre International de Recherche en Aménagement linguistique de l'Université de Laval, 39-47.

(2000) Personality and Speech Production: A pilot study of second language learners, Personality and Individual Differences 28, 355-365. (second author: A. Furnham).

(2000) Quantifier le style dans la conversation. Une analyse de la variation sociolinguistique, Le Langage et l’Homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage, 25, 4, 233-249.

(2000) Relating gender errors to morphosyntactic and lexical systems in advanced French interlanguage. Studia Linguistica 54, 2, 212-224. (second author: Daniel Véronique)

(2000) Saisir l’insaisissable ? Les mesures de longueur d’énoncés en linguistique appliquée, International Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 1, 31-47.

(2000) Structures interrogatives dans le discours francais oral d’apprenants et de locuteurs natifs. In A. Englebert, M. Pierrard, L. Rosier & D. Van Raemdonck (eds.), Actes du XXIIe Congrès international de Linguistique et de Philologie romanes, vol. IX, Berlin : Niemeyer, 69-76.

(2000) Three years old and three first languages. Bilingual Family Newsletter, 17, 2, 4-5.

(2001) Activation or inhibition ? The interaction of L1, L2 and L3 on the language mode continuum. In U. Jessner, B. Hufeisen & J. Cenoz (eds.), Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 69-89.

(2001) Conversations trilingues (arabe, français, anglais) entre mère et fille: un saute-mouton référentiel ? In C. Charnet (ed.), Communications réferentielles et processus réferentiels Montpellier: Publications de Praxiling-Université Paul-Valéry, 193-214. (second author: M. Edwards).

(2001) Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French Interlanguage: a cross-sectional study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 3, 275-297. (second author: Daniel Véronique).

(2001) Interpreting the maxim of quantity: interindividual and situational variation in discourse styles of non-native speakers. In E. Németh (ed.), Cognition in Language Use: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 1. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 85-99.

(2001) La statistique comme instrument heuristique en linguistique. Le Langage et l’Homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage 36, 1, 131-142.

(2001) Stéréotype à l’épreuve: le discours oral des femmes est-il plus émotionnel et déictique que celui des hommes ?. In K. Beeching, C. Bauvois & N. Armstrong (eds.), La langue française au féminin. Paris: l’Harmattan, 123-147.

(2001) The use of colloquial words in advanced French interlanguage. In S. Foster-Cohen & A. Nizegorodcew (eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 2001, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 51-68. (second author: V. Regan)

(2001) Une distinction mesurable: corpus oraux et écrits sur le continuum de la deixis, Journal of French Language Studies, 11, 179-199.

(2002) Acquiring L2 variation patterns: the case of nous/on in advanced French IL. In S. Foster-Cohen (ed.), Eurosla Yearbook 2002, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(2002) Degrees of contextuality in language: an empirical measure In B. Edmonds (ed.), Context in Context. Special issue in the Series Foundations of Science. (first author: F. Heylighen).

(2002) Emotion vocabulary in interlanguage. Language Learning, 52, 2, 265-324. (second author: Aneta Pavlenko).

(2002) Individual differences in L2 fluency: The effect of neurobiological correlates. In V. Cook (ed.), The nature of the L2 user. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 219-250.

(2002) Maîtriser la norme sociolinguistique en interlangue française: le cas de l'omission variable de ‘ne’ (second author: Vera Regan) Journal of French Language Studies, 12, 2.

(2002) Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism: an introduction. In J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen & L. Wei (eds.), Bilingualism: Challenges and Directions for Future Research. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. (second and third authors: A. Housen & L. Wei).

(2002) Psychological and sociodemographic correlates of communicative anxiety in L2 and L3 production. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 6, 1, 23-39.

(2002) Research on expressing emotions in multiple languages. The Bilingual Family Newsletter 19, 1, 3. (second author: Aneta Pavlenko).

(2002) The effect of multilingualism and socio-situational factors on communicative anxiety of mature language learners. In J. Ytsma & M. Hooghiemstra (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trilingualism (CD Rom).

Name: Dulcie Engel Institution: University of Wales Swansea

E-mail address: d.engel@swansea.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Projects:

1. Syntax & semantics of être (in French)

2. The status of the Australian Perfect

Keywords: 1. Syntax,semantics, être

2. Australian English, perfect, semantics, past tense, comparative

Project Collaborators

1. Dr Nathalie Rossi Univ. de Tours

2. Dr Marie-Eve Ritz Univ. of Western Australia

Project Funded By:

1. funds applied for: waiting to hear

2. Australian Research Council

Intended Publication*:

1. joint-authored B

2. As; Cfs

Publications/Results to Date:

1. in v. early stages

2. First paper to be given at Colloque Chronos Nice May 2000

Brief Description of the Research:

1. The status of être based on corpus analysis (Glossanet, Frantext)

2. comparison of Aus. perfect with perfects across langs esp French & other

varieties of English, using media corpus

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

*B=Book (please state single/joint authored, edited, etc)

A=Article CB=Course-book R=Reader Rp=Report

MM=Multimedia materials SW=Software Cf=Conference-paper

Name: Christine FIANDINO Institution: University of Sheffield

E-mail address: c.fiandino@shef.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

PhD Project : Learning French Intonation. Comparative Analysis of Tests in Situations of Interaction and of Interactivity.

Keywords: Intonation, Interaction, Interactivity, Methodology

Project Collaborators: Mrs Annie Rouxeville, Professor Phil Green (University of Sheffield),

Professor Albert Di Cristo (Université de Provence)

Project Funded By: The University of Sheffield

Publications:

A=Intonation, sens et fonctions pédagogiques, Le Français dans le Monde, janv-fév. 2000, p 39-41

A=L'intonation de l'avocat, Le Français dans le Monde, octobre 1998, fiche pratique, V-VI

A=Les fonctions de l’intonation, Cahiers AFLS 5.2, Summer 1999, p 39-41

Conferences:

Cf= Des méthodes FLE adaptées pour l’apprentissage de l’intonation ?, AFLS Annual Conference 1998, University of East-Anglia Norwich. 4-6September 1998.

Cf= Criteria for Designing Interactive Exercises to Learn French Intonation, ESCA Workshop MATISSE (Method and Tool Innovations for Speech Science Education), University College London, 16-17 April 1999.

Cf= L’acquisition de l’intonation : de l’interaction à l’interactivité, AFLS Annual Conference 1999, University of Swansea, 3-5 September 1999.

Cf= Intonation et expressivité en FLE : avec ou sans ordinateur ?, AFLS Annual Conference 2000, University Laval, Quebec Ville, enc collaboration avec Professeur Philippe Martin, University of Toronto, 24-27 August 2000.

Cf= Expressiveness on Visual Computerized Basis to Learn French Intonative Attitudes. InSTILL Integrating Speech Technology in Language Learning, University of Abertay Dundee, 29-30 August 2000.

Brief Description of the Research:

Studies on the role of Prosody in the learning of French as a Foreign Language. Current research aimed at developing a method integrating Intonation into the Teaching of French Language to English Speakers. Special interest in Phonostylistics, expressiveness and emotions.

Appeal for information from Christine Fiandino (c.fiandino@shef.ac.uk)

What are the EMOTIONS/ATTITUDES you find the MOST DIFFICULT to express

· when you speak French (1) if you are an English native speaker

· or when you speak English (2) if you are a French native speaker?

Please pick THREE choices out of ONE of the lists:

(1) Speaking FRENCH as an ENGLISH SPEAKER (2) Speaking ENGLISH as a FRENCH SPEAKER

Enthusiasm Enthusiasm

Sadness Sadness

Doubt Doubt

Joy Joy

Disappointment Disappointment

Irony Irony

Anger Anger

Name: Marie-Noëlle Guillot Institution: University of East Anglia (UEA)

E-mail address: m.guillot@uea.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

Study of turn-allocation, turn-taking and interruption patterns in a corpus of French and English semi-formal verbal interactions.

Keywords: Turn-allocation, turn-taking, interruption patterns, verbal interactions, French, English

Project Collaborators: N/A

Project Funded By: Funding sought from the British Academy.

Intended Publication*: A; B (one or two chapters) (single author); CF

Publications/Results to Date:

None for this particular project yet, but part of a larger body of work which last year resulted in the publication of Fluency and its Teaching (1999) (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters) (single author)

Brief Description of the Research:

The enquiry is to be one in a series of contrastive investigations into aspects of French and English (mostly speech/verbal interactions, but also written language). Its aim, like the aim of the series is primarily linguistic. A related concern, however, will be to assess the relevance to foreign users and learners of French and English of the differences identified, and their impact on the viability and efficiency of their interactions with native speakers.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

If I do get funding from the British Academy, I will seek assistance with transcription and will be looking for someone with experience of technical transcription (and preferably also tagging) to transcribe approximately 10hours of recording (French and English) (200hrs @ £7 per hour). If anyone knows of someone suitable and interested, I would be grateful if they could let me know.

Name: Damien Hall Institution: University of Pennsylvania

E-mail address: halldj@babel.ling.upenn.edu

Title of Current Research Project: The Sociolinguistics of the Regional French of Normandy

(I also have other interests in the areas indicated by my keywords)

Keywords: sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology

Project Collaborators

Project Funded By: University of Pennsylvania (PhD candidacy)

Intended Publication*: Cf abstract submitted to New Ways of Analyzing Variation 32 (October 2004)

abstract to be submitted to Methods XII (dialectology conference), August 2005

Rp PhD thesis to be submitted by 2008

Publications/Results to Date: Rp: Salience, French and Norman: the Regional French of Normandy (MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003)

Rp: The Palatalisation of /k/ in Normandy: a sialectological survey (term paper, University of Pennsylvania, May 2004)

Brief Description of the Research:

I intend to carry out a survey of the Regional French spoken on the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy and in the parts of Canada colonised from there. Part of the research will be an attempt to apply the salience framework to these varieties of French, to try to determine possible reasons why the varieties are currently spoken as they are. Other parts of the research will use dialect geography; the precise shape of the whole project will be determined closer to the time of writing it.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Contact from any other interested scholars would be very welcome.

Sean Hand Institution: Oxford Brookes University

Research Title: The critical writings of Michel Leiris

Start Date: 9/2003

End Date: 2/2004

Principle contact: Prof Sean Hand

Institution: Oxford Brookes University

Summary: This monograph analyses Leiris's appreciations of visual art, jazz and opera, and literature, in order to speculate on the primary rather than secondary nature of this work in relation to his autobiographical activities.

Languages: French

Keywords: Leiris

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source: British Academy, Leverhulme Trust

Outcome 1: Book

David Hornsby University of Kent at Canterbury

Research Title: Redefining regional French

Start Date: Unknown

End Date: Unknown

Principle contact: Dr David Hornsby

Institution: Kent at Canterbury (University of)

Summary: Investigation into dialect obsolescence in northern France. Questioning received view of regional French as 'dialect residue', using Trudgill's koinization model to explain survival and obsolescence of different local forms.

Languages: French

Keywords: , dialect

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source: Arts and Humanities Research Board

Name: Stella Hurd Institution: Open University

E-mail address: m.s.hurd@open.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Affective factors in distance language learning 2002-2004/5

Keywords: Affective; anxiety; motivation; self-confidence; strategies

Project Collaborators: N/A

Project Funded By: Department of Languages, Open University

Intended Publication*: A; Cf

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research:

This project seeks to provide a greater understanding of the extent and role of affective factors in distance language learning, and to give data for comparison with earlier findings on face-to-face language learning and the role of the tutor. Findings will be interpreted in relation to the literature on the modifiability of learner traits. Outcomes will extend our knowledge of the distance language learner, identify specific needs and areas for support and give useful insights into the nature and timing of pedagogic intervention.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Mikaël Jamin Institution: University of Kent at Canterbury

E-mail address: mikael@1jamin.freeserve.co.uk

mjj1@ukc.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Sociolinguistic Variation in the Paris Suburbs (PhD project)

Keywords: French language - sociolinguistics - social/regional/ethnic variation – social networks- language change - phonology-

Project Collaborators: David Hornsby (supervisor),University of Kent at Canterbury; Nigel Armstrong, University of Leeds

Project Funded By: self-funded

Intended Publication*:

Publications/Results to Date:

1) With N. Armstrong: ‘Le français des banlieues: uniformity and discontinuity in the French of the Hexagon, in French In and Out of France : language policies, intercultural antagonisms and dialogues. In Sahli, K. (ed.). pp-pp. Bern: Peter Lang. (forthcoming 2002).

Brief Description of the Research:

The study focuses on the French spoken by the working class youth of the Paris banlieues. Preliminary results show patterns of variation which seems to be linked to the emergence of a street culture. Innovative phonological features such as the affrication of dental stops and the glottalisation of /R/ seem to be emerging and could be signs of change in progress in French.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

*B=Book (please state single/joint authored, edited, etc)

A=Article CB=Course-book R=Reader Rp=Report

MM=Multimedia materials SW=Software Cf=Conference-paper

Name: Mari Jones Institution: Peterhouse, University of Cambridge

E-mail address: m@ll hermes.cam.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: The French of the Channel Islands

Keywords: Dialects - Norman - language contact - language obsolescence

Project Collaborators: None

Project Funded By: Partly by the British Academy Humanities Research Board

Intended Publication*: B (single authored), A,, Cf

Publications/Results to Date: Jersey Norman French: A linguistic study of an obsolescent dialect (Oxford: Blackwell) The subjunctive in Guernsey Norman French (JFLS 10/2); Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Anglais: convergence on the Island of Guernsey in M.C. Jones and E. Esch (eds) Language change; an interplay of internal, external and extra-linguistic factors? (forthcoming: Mouton de Gruyter); ?French in the Channel Islands? in D. Britain (ed) ?Language in the British Isles (forthcoming; CUP), Lexical erosion in Jèrriais (in preparation)

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

*B=Book (please state single/joint authored, edited, etc)

A=Article CB=Course-book R=Reader Rp=Report

MM=Multimedia materials SW=Software Cf=Conference-paper

Name: Margaret Jubb Institution: University of Aberdeen

E-mail address: m.jubb@abdn.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Upgrade Your French; A Self-help 30-day revision guide

Keywords: revision, grammar, vocabulary

Project Collaborators: None

Project Funded By: Not funded

Intended Publication*: Book - Single-authored

Typescript to be submitted by June 2001. Publication probably early 2002.

Publications/Results to Date: None

Brief Description of the Research:

Based on an analysis of a corpus of finalists’ composition scripts, this book aims to provide students with a thirty-day revision and consolidation programme which will enable them to upgrade their performance in written language examination. Elimination of basic errors is not the only concern; exercises will also be given to encourage the use of more ambitious vocabulary and a more adventurous style.

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Anne Judge Institution: University of Surrey

E-mail address: a.judge@surrey.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

1) Linguistic policies and linguistic legislation in France (including la Francophonie) (continued) and the UK (new).

Keywords:

1) Linguistic legislation, linguistic policies, regional languages

Intended Publication*:

On linguistic policies and legislation

‘Langues, identités et politiques linguistiques dans le cadre du Royaume-Uni’ in ‘Actes du colloque sur la nationalité, la citoyenneté et l’identité’, ed. M-A Mallet, Faculty of Law, Paris V (forthcoming)

‘Linguistiques politiques, langues collatérales et langues différenciées dans le cadre du Royaume-Uni’, ed. J-M. Eloy (forthcoming)

‘Contemporary issues in France and linguistic policies’ in ‘French in and out of France : language policies and intercultural antagonisms’, ed. K. Salhi, Peter Lang (before 2003)

Publications/Results to Date:

Ch. (1998) The Impact of European Linguistic Policies on French (with S. Judge) In: d. D. Marley, M-A Hintze & G Parker (eds) Linguistic Identities and Policies in France and the French-speaking World. London: ,AFLS/CILT

Ch. (1999) ‘Voices and policies in Subsaharan Africa’ (1999) in ‘Francophone Voices’ ed. K. Salhi, Elm Bank, Exeter, pp. 1-25

A. (2000) Linguistic policies in France and contemporary issues: the signing of the Charter for Regional or Minority Langues’ (with S. Judge) (2000), in The International Journal for Francophone Studies, Vol 3 , Numbers 2 & 3, Special issue on linguistic policies, Intellect Ltd, 106 – 127

Ch. (2000) France : One state, one nation, one language? In: S. Barbour & C. Carmichael (eds) Language and Nationalism in Europe. Oxford University Press, pp. 44-82.

Brief Description of the Research:

Ongoing research on changes in attitudes, practices, policies and legislation within the context of France, the Organisation mondiale de la Francophonie, and the UK.

Name: Anne Judge Institution: University of Surrey

E-mail address: a.judge@surrey.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project:

Past tenses as used in the written language, both from a theoretical and a pedagogical point of view, the latter derived from the former; in the case of the Narrative Present a contrastive approach with English is also included (continued).

Keywords:

Tenses, tenses systems, past tenses, narrative systems, narrative present

Intended Publication*:

An overview of the systems used in narrative prose.

An article on the mixture of systems in journalism

An article on ‘les faintaisies stylistiques du sytème verbal français’

Publications/Results to Date:

Ch. (1998) Choix entre le présent narratif et le système multifocal dans le contexte du récit écrit’ (1998). In : Sv. Vogeleer, A. Borillo, C. Vetters & M. Vuillaume (eds) Temps et discours Peeters, Louvain La Neuve, pp. 215-235.

Ch. (2000) Les conventions de l’écrit vis-à-vis de l’oral: le cas du présent narratif en anglais et en français. In: M-N Guillot & M-M Kenning (eds) Text, Orality and Voice: Changing Landscapes in Language and Language Pedagogy. London: AFLS/CILT, pp.96-122.

Ch. (2001) Les manuels face à l’évolution des temps du passé dans le contexte de l’écrit. In:. J. Demarty-Warzée & J. Rousseau (eds) Faire une grammaire, faire de la grammaire. Les Cahiers du CIEP, Didier, Paris, pp.99-108.

Ch. (2002) Écarts entre manuels et réalités : un problème pour l’enseignement des temps du passé à des étudiants d’un niveau avancé. In: E. Labeau & P. Larrivée (eds). Les temps du passé français et leur enseignement. Cahiers Chronos, Rodopi, Masterdam – New York, pp.135-156.

Brief Description of the Research:

When referring to the past, there is normally one pivotal tense which carries the action forward while the others relate to actions or states of affairs associated with it. This pivotal tense in the written language used to be the past historic; then the compound past became used instead of the past historic; currently the present tense is frequently used instead (the ‘narrative present’); and very recently the ‘multifocal system’, which includes all these possibilities in the same context, has also become an alternative. The advantage of the latter is that depending on whether the author uses a past historic, a compound past or a narrative present, the action is highlighted from a different point of view. This has created a new rich communicative system, to be added as an alternative to the other three. In journalism, it is possible to combine these systems, paragraphs contrasting with one another, which again constitutes a novelty..

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.)

Name: Michael Kelly

Institution: University of Southampton

E-mail address: mhk@lang.soton.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Intercultural communication in Europe

Keywords: Intercultural

Project Collaborators: European Language Council; Thematic Network in Languages

Project Funded By: EU - under SOCRATES

Intended Publication': B, Rp

Publications/Results to Date: Preliminary reports have been presented at ELC/TNP

conference in Lille, July 1997. The project involves colleagues from all EU countries.

Brief Description of the Research:

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Start Date: 0/1999

End Date: 0/2004

Principle contact: Prof Michael Kelly

Institution: Southampton (University of)

Collaborators: Summary: This book reveals how France reinvented itself in the aftermath of the Second World War. After foreign military interventions, the French political and intellectual elites embraced regime change and launched an urgent programme of nation building. They rebuilt French national identity with whatever material was available, and created a vibrant new cultural and intellectual life. The cost to subordinated groups, especially women, still casts a long shadow over French values and attitudes. And there might be lessons for other countries, struggling to rebuild themselves after conflict.

Languages: French

Keywords: , Liberation

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source:

Outcome 1: Kelly, Michael, The cultural and intellectual rebuilding of France after the second world war (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)

Name: Marie-Madeleine Kenning Institution: University of East Anglia

E-mail address: m.kenning@uea.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: Technology and language learning

Keywords: media, technology, language learning, language teaching

Project Collaborators

Project Funded By:

Intended Publication*: book

Publications/Results to Date:

Brief Description of the Research: an investigation into the impact of communication/information technologies such as print, radio, TV, telephone, computers on language pedagogy across the ages

Other Comments (Advice, appeals for information, etc.):

Name: Emmanuelle Labeau Institution: Aston University

E-mail address:

Research Title: L'imparfait, temps de la narration, en diachronie

Start Date: Unknown

End Date: Unknown

Principle contact: Dr Emmanuelle Labeau

Institution: Aston University

Summary: The outcome of the proposed study is a monograph on a special use of the French imperfect, known as 'imparfait narratif', 'imparfait de narration', 'imparfait pittoresque'.No monograph has been devoted to that form and there are many uncertainties surrounding it (as shown by the multiplicity of tags): date of apparition, exact nature, context and cotext of use. The present research aims at doing first a literature review of the phenomenon before embarking on an extensive corpus analysis. That analysis will take into account samples of genres (naturalist and detective novels, press) and medium (written, prepared oral and oral) that have been identified as conducing to the use of the form under study.

Languages: French

Keywords: , corpus analysis

Research Descriptors:

Funding Source:

Outcome 1: (2002) 'L'unité de l'imparfait: vues théoriques et perspectives pour les apprenants du français, langue étrangère', Travaux de Linguistique 45, 157-184

Outcome 2: (in press) 'Mon nom est narratif, imparfait narratif', in Labeau, E. & Larrivée, P. Nouveaux développements de l'imparfait. Rodopi (Cahiers Chronos).

Outcome 3: (forthcoming) 'Et un, ou deux, ou trois ? Les temps-champions du compte rendu sportif depuis 1950', in Caudal, P., Labeau, E. & Vetters, C. (éds)

Outcome 4: (in press) 'Le(s) temps du compte rendu sportif francophone', Journal of French Language Studies.

Outcome 5: (in press) 'L'imparfait dans la narration chez Simenon: Une dérive aspectuelle?' (Le langage et l'homme)

Research Title: The acquisition of French past tenses by advanced Anglophone university students: is aspect enough ?

Postgraduate

Start Date: Unknown

End Date: 9/2002

Principle contact: Dr Emmanuelle Labeau

Institution: Aston University

Summary: Following Andersen's (1986, 1991) study of untutored anglophone learners of Spanish, aspectual features have been at the centre of hypotheses on the development of past verbal morphology in language acquisition. The Primacy of Aspect Hypothesis claims that the association of any verb category (Aktionsart) with any aspect (perfective or imperfective) constitutes the endpoint of acquisition. However, its predictions rely on the observation of a limited number of untutored learners at the early stages of their acquisition, and have yet to be confirmed in other settings. The aim of the present thesis is to evaluate the explanatory power of the PAH in respect of the acquisition of French past tenses, an aspect of the language which constitutes a serious stumbling block for foreign learners, even those at the highest levels of proficiency (Coppieters 1987). The present research applies the PAH to the production of 61 anglophone 'advanced learners' (as defined in Bartning 1997) in a tutored environment. In so doing, it tests concurrent explanations, including the influence of the input, the influence of chunking, and the hypothesis of cyclic development. Finally, it discusses the cotextual and contextual factors that still provoke what Anderson (1991) terms "non-native glitches" at the final stage, as predicted by the PAH.

Languages: French

Keywords: , French as a foreign language

Research Descriptors: learning process , materials development

Funding Source:

Degree Type: PhD

Outcome 1: Monograph under study: Beyond the Aspect Hypothesis:Tense-Aspect Development in advanced L2 French,

Outcome 2: (2002) 'Des " temps modernes ": les règles d'interprétation discursives qui président au choix des temps du passé français dans les narrations écrites d'apprenants avancés', Revue de la Sociedad Argentina de Profesores de Francés de la enseñanza superior y univeritaria 25: 156-173.

Outcome 3: (2002) 'Circonstants atténuants: l'adjonction de localisateurs temporels aux formes passées dans la production écrite d'apprenants anglophones avancés'. in Labeau, E. & Larrivée, P. (éds) Les temps du passé français et leur enseignement. (Cahiers Chronos 9). Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi. (in press) 'Des " Temps modernes ": L'aspect suffit-il à la maîtrise des temps du passé dans les narrations écrites d'apprenants avancés?', article évalué et choisi pour figurer dans les actes du 5e Colloque Chronos. Outcome 4: (in press) 'Des " Temps modernes ": L'aspect suffit-il à la maîtrise des temps du passé dans les narrations écrites d'apprenants avancés?', article évalué et choisi pour figurer dans les actes du 5e Colloque Chronos.

Outcome 5: (2004) Line or circle ? The process of past tenses acquisition by advanced learners of French, in Cohen, J., McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (Eds.) (2004) Line or circle ? The process of past tenses acquisition by advanced learners of French, in Cohen, J., McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (Eds.) (2004). ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA:

Cascadilla Press.

Name: Marie-Noëlle LAMY Institution: The Open University

E-mail address: m.n.lamy@open.ac.uk

Title of Current Research Project: ICOGAD ("Interactions et Changements COgnitifs dans les Groupes d'Apprentissage à Distance médiatisé par les systèmes d'information et de communication”)

Keywords: distance learning; language acquisition; intercultural awareness; interactive competence; virtual learning environment

Project Collaborators

At Open University: Xavière Hassan, Annie Eardley

At Laboratoire d’Informatique, Université de Franche-Comté: Professor Thierry Chanier; Christophe Reffay

At UER Psychologie, Université de Nancy: Valérie Saint-Dizier

Project Funded By: Ministère de la recherche

Intended Publication*:

- Submitted: Open Learning themed issue on language learning, 2003.(A)

- Accepted for presentation: Eurocall 2002 (Cf )

- In plan: submission to 10^th Biennial conference of EARLI (European Association for research in Learning and Instruction), Padova, Italy, August 2003 (Cf)

Publications/Results to Date:

- MN Lamy présentation at XIIIme congrès du GERAS (groupe d’enseignement et de recherche d’anglais de spécialité), Lyon, 2002 (Cf)

- Thierry Chanier: Créer des communautés d’apprentissage à distance: apprentissage collaboratif avec les plates-formes de téléformation. Les Dossiers de l’Ingénierie pédagogique. M Bézard (Ed.) Centre de National de Documentation Pédagogique. N°36.