Dr. Nathalie Dherbey Chapuis

Title

Sounds of the Language of Instruction: From the Challenges of the First Hours to Reading

Duration

10.2021 - 12.2022

When commencing the compulsory education curriculum, pupils are five years old and are assumed to have mastered the oral foundations of the language of instruction. In some districts however, up to 80% of pupils entering 1H speak a different...

Title

Phonological interface and vocabulary acquisition in FSL

Duration

01.2017 - 12.2021

The learner's native language(s) have an impact on second language acquisition. All speakers ‘ languages share the processes that enable their functioning and also their knowledge repertoires, such as the phonological repertoire (Flege, Bohn...

Title

The Influence of Input Quality in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language

Duration

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 the...

Title

Digital tools in L2 and L3 vocabulary acquisition. A cross-linguistic investigation

Duration

02.2024 - 01.2028

Vocabulary learning in a second or foreign language can take place in many different ways. In our project, we want to better understand how learners learn words incidentally or intentionally through the use of digital tools. Our project covers...