French and Francophone Studies Research Seminar

Questions de genre dans la grammaire du français

Dr Hugues Peters (Senior Lecturer in French Studies, UNSW)

Abstract

Ce travail en cours cherche à mesurer l’inscription de la domination masculine dans la grammaire du français et à passer en revue quelques solutions pour un mode d’enseignement plus inclusif du français langue étrangère.

This project is a work in progress. It aims at measuring the inscription of male domination in French grammar and at proposing some solutions for a more inclusive mode of teaching French as a foreign language.

Please note that this seminar will be conducted in French.

About the presenter

Dr Hugues Peters is Senior Lecturer in French studies in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. He received his Master in Romance Philology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and his PhD in French Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. Before his arrival at UNSW, Sydney, in 2005, he had taught for 8 years in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and held research positions at the University of Brussels Phonetic Institute and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva. He is an academic with international teaching experience of the French language as a foreign language at all levels. He is the author with Christopher Laenzlinger of Des savoirs linguistiques aux savoirs scolaires. L’accès à la grammaire par le lexique (Editions Lambert-Lucas, Limoges, France, 2016), and the creator of a learners’ corpus of spoken French: The UWI French L2 Corpus (SLA-Bank Talkbank, 2017). He strives to apply his research on French grammar and culture and on second language acquisition to the teaching of French at UNSW, more recently on the topic of language inclusivity.

For more information, contact: Dr Victoria Souliman (victoria.souliman@sydney.edu.au)

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