I am a Lecturer in French in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the ANU. I hold a PhD in Second Language Studies from Michigan State University (USA), two M.A degrees in Applied Linguistics and French as a Foreign Language from the Universty of Grenoble (France) and a B.A in English from the University of Tours (France). Before joining the ANU in 2016, I was Assistant Professor of French Linguistics at Rochester Institute of Technology (New York), and taught Second Language Acquisition, Methodology of Teaching Languages, and French at Michigan State University. In addition to French and English, I speak German and I am a heritage learner of Turkish. 

At the ANU, I convene and teach Advanced French (FREN3010/6010 and FREN3011/6011) and The Sounds of French: Phonetics and Pronunciation (FREN3565/6515), in addition to teaching special advanced courses such as The French Language in Space and Time (FREN2021). I am the Second Language Acquisition stream leader in the Speech and Language Lab. I also serve as the Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Convenor for Linguistics and Languages (2016-2019). 

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the recipient of a ANU Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2019), and a mentor in the CASS-CAP Teaching Mentoring Program.

• Using ultrasound in the second language learning/teaching.
• Role of self-awareness in pronunciation learning.
• Automatic Speech Recognition for second language pronunciation learning.
• Language experience and word familiarity on the perception of French vowels.
• Effect of study abroad on pronunciation development.

Grants:

• 2019 CASS Teaching and Learning Fellowship to create a speech perception training mobile app to enhance student second language speech perception [$10,000] (with Drs T. Nurmikko-Fuller, B. Pereira Nunes and B. Swift)
• 2018 ANU Teaching Enhancement Grant to create online video resources for languages education [$2,200] (with Drs M. Delicado and J. Brown)
• 2016 CASS Research Development Grant  to investigate cognitive individual differences in second language acquisition (esp. working memory and phonological short-term memory) [AU$3,000]

I welcome proposals for Honours, MPhil, and PhD research in any of the areas listed in the research interests section above. 

Primary supervisor

Perception and Production of L2 Arabic Gutturals: Investigating the Role of Script (Mona Albluwi - PhD, 2017 - ongoing)

Exploring teacher perceptions of assessment in languages: The French Language Progression Framework K-10 (Camille Booker - Mphil, 2019 - ongoing)

Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition (Ruri Ueda - PhD, 2020 - ongoing)

Training Japanese pronunciation Title TBC (Kai Bakker - Honours, ongoing)

Associate supervisor

Understanding the cognitive processes in sight translation (Shuyu Zhang - PhD in Translation, 2019 - ongoing)

The effects of different types of audiovisual feedback on Anglophone acquisition of French nasal vowels  (Alice McMillan - Honours, 2019)

“Pardon my Québécois!” The use of religious profanitiesby Québécois youth and its role in Québécois society (Alana Cunningham, co-supervision, Honours, 2016)