© Alan Humerose
Director
+41 26 300 79 71
anita.thomas@unifr.ch
Full Professor of French as a foreign language
Research Interests
- Acquisition, learning, and teaching of French as a foreign/ second language
- Influence of input, input and interaction, levels of acquisition
- Multilingualism and norms
- Psycholinguistics, cognitive processes
- French, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, priming
Research projects (direction)
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03.2024 - 02.2028
The goal of the project is to study the influence of teaching materials found in a compulsory school textbook on the learning of two grammatical phenomena. Following an analysis of the way in which these two phenomena are presented in...
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01.2021 - 12.2024
The aim of the DiCoi project is on the one hand to produce teaching material from recordings of authentic conversations (spoken language corpora) and on the other hand to describe the longitudinal development of interaction skills (over 2...
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03.2016 - 12.2024
SWIKO is a multilingual learner corpus describing learner language according to principles of corpus-linguistics. The corpus is an umbrella project developed during the 2016–2019 research period and being further developed in the 2021–2024...
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01.2018 - 12.2023
The purpose of this project is to study the ‟comprehension‟ aspect of oral interaction competence. More specifically, this involves studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of comprehension in oral interactions as well as testing...
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01.2018 - 12.2019
The main goal of this project is to compile an inventory of existing corpora containing productions of learners of German and French as a foreign language; a further objective is defining gaps and needs in this area.
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01.2018 - 12.2019
This project culminates in a book in four languages that is designed for the general public. In the book, roughly 40 expressions in Rhaeto-Romanic (all idioms), Italian, German (including examples in Swiss German) and French are compared....
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01.2013 - 01.2019
The aim of this project is to investigate the potential uses of research corpora in teaching. This long-term project is carried out in collaboration with other research groups in Switzerland and France, in particular in Lyon as part of the...
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01.2017 - 12.2018
Financed by Fond d’Innovation de la Faculté des lettres, University of Fribourg
The aim of this project is to test the use of the digital collaborative writing tool FRAMAPAD https://framapad.org to support the note-taking skills of allophone...
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