Cédric Sarré

• Lecturer at Sorbonne University

This study investigates the differential effect of various noticing activities on grammatical accuracy development in EFL learners’ written productions. We focus on different types of noticing activities based on an error-tagged learner corpus and report on effective practical experiments involving learner corpus data. A pretest/posttest quasi-expe...

In our globalised world, citizens need to develop increasingly specialised language skills in order to meet the needs of industry. However, the resulting increase in the number of LSP courses to meet this need has not been followed by an increase in the provision of specific training for LSP teachers, as a number of national studies have pointed ou...

The 2021 EUROCALL conference engaged just under 250 speakers from 40 different countries. Cnam Paris and Sorbonne Université joined forces to host and organise the event despite the challenging context due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally programmed to be held on site in the heart of Paris, France, the EUROCALL organising team and executive com...

Although MOOCs dedicated to the teaching and learning of languages - Language MOOCs known as LMOOCs in the published literature - have gained popularity since 2008, this is not the case for language teacher education courses which are still rarely delivered in the form of MOOCs. Unsurprisingly, very little is therefore known about the effectiveness...

Les effets de la réforme LMD sur les formations à l’université et, plus particulièrement, sur celles issues du secteur LANSAD sont, malgré leur ampleur, relativement peu mesurés. Par ailleurs, l’autonomie grandissante des universités a conduit au développement relativement anarchique des formations en langues, posant indéniablement un problème de l...

In a previous study (Sarré, Grosbois & Brudermann, 2019), we explored the effects of various corrective feedback (CF) strategies on interlanguage development for the online component of a blended English as a foreign language (EFL) course we had designed and implemented. Our results showed that unfocused indirect CF (feedback on all error types thr...

While published research on the role of the body in multimodal didactic discourse is growing at a fast pace, as shown by the numerous recent studies on the subject (Aden, 2017 ; Azaoui, 2015 ; Sime, 2001, 2008 ; Tellier, 2014, 2016), research on the multimodal nature of learner-learner interactions in a second language (L2) remains more confidentia...

Corrective feedback (CF) can be provided to learners in different ways (explicit or implicit, focused or unfocused) and is the subject of major controversies in second language acquisition research. As no clear consensus has been reached so far about the most effective approach to CF with a view to fostering accuracy in second language (L2) writing...

If interaction has been claimed to be facilitative of second language acquisition for a long time, acquisitionists have more recently started considering interaction as a learning outcome in its own right, that is to say a compétence to develop. The question is therefore to know how to help learners develop their ability to interact, even more so i...

This chapter examines how pre-service teachers specializing in English Language Teaching (ELT) insecondary schools can learn to teach for Next-Generation Education by developing professional skillsthat are in line with today and tomorrow's technology-mediated environments. To face this challenge,some specific CALL-based ELT training combining actio...

In today's networked world where English is a basic skill, essential for communication in many spheres of academic, professional and social life, the need to move beyond anecdotal, romantic views of language learning and use has never been more pressing. Master (2005) called for the field to build on empirical research findings instead of "war stor...

This paper tackles the question of research on the teaching and learning of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in France and presents the initial stages of work on the development of a theoretical framework which is specific to this field of research. It examines arguments for the development of a concept of ESP didactics and the framework underpi...

La didactique des langues est, par définition, un domaine de recherche transfrontalier, se nourissant de l’apport de disciplines contributoires aussi variées que « la linguistique, la sociolinguistique, la psycholinguistique, les sciences cognitives, l’ethnologie, la sociologie, la psychologie, les neurosciences, etc. » (Tardieu 2014 : 86). Lorsque...

Les anglicistes recrutés dans l’enseignement supérieur ne sont pas préparés à enseigner l’anglais de spécialité (ASp) dans le secteur des langues pour spécialistes d’autres disciplines (LANSAD). Ils développent majoritairement leurs compétences professionnelles sur le terrain ou par le biais de la formation continue, dont l’offre est très réduite....

Although many researchers have focused their attention on task-based language teaching (TBLT) in recent years, there is little published research on TBLT in technology-mediated contexts, and on how to design and implement tasks in online settings. In addition, very little can be found in the literature about learner perception of technology-mediate...

The effects of the LMD reform on academic programmes and, more particularly, on those involving the teaching of languages to students of other disciplines, are relatively marked but remain largely unknown. Moreover, as French universities are becoming more autonomous, language teaching curricula have developed rather chaotically, thus leading to a...

The effects of the LMD reform on academic programmes and, more particularly, on those involving the teaching of languages to students of other disciplines, are relatively marked but remain largely unknown. Moreover, as French universities are becoming more autonomous, language teaching curricula have developed rather chaoticaly, thus leading to a l...

Although many researchers have focused their attention on task-based language teaching (TBLT) in recent years, there is little published research on TBLT in technology-mediated contexts, and on how to design and implement tasks in online settings. In addition, very little can be found in the literature about learner perception of technology-mediate...

In spite of the amount of published research on the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in second language acquisition (SLA) in the past twenty years, few of these studies deal with voice-based CMC (audioconferencing and videoconferencing) and with how it compares with text-based CMC. This article aims at bridging this gap by examining and...

Despite the amount of published research on the use of text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) in second language acquisition (SLA), very little attention has been paid to voice-based CMC (audioconferencing and videoconferencing) and to how it compares with the better known text-based CMC modes. This chapter investigates and compares the p...

This action-research aims at exploring the potential of Computer-Mediated-Communication for the distance teaching and learning of English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The main objective is to help learners specializing in life sciences build their interactional competence in L2 English through computer-mediated telecollaboration. The main hypothesi...

L'enseignement des langues à l'université dans le secteur LANSAD (Langues pour Spécialistes d'Autres Disciplines), autrefois appelé public de non-spécialistes, a toujours été très différent d'un établissement à l'autre. Cependant, force est de constater que les choses ont beaucoup évolué ces dernières années, notamment en termes de pratiques pédago...

Notre étude s'inscrit dans le domaine de la didactique des langues et s'intéresse plus particulièrement à l'apport de la Communication Médiatisée par Ordinateur (CMO) à l'enseignement-apprentissage de l'anglais de spécialité à distance. Il s'agit d'une recherche-action ayant pour objectif d'aider des apprenants de spécialité scientifique (sciences...

Coda – Language use, technology and professionalisation in higher education: Roadmap for future research directions.

Sequential detections of different proteins on Western blot save time and precious samples. The main problem concerning reprobing is that stripping buffers can unbind both the antibody and the tested antigen. An original reprobing method has been set up based on horseradish peroxidase (HRP) inhibition after enhanced chemiluminescence detection. Ins...

Cet article a pour objectif d’inciter l’enseignant désireux de mettre en place un dispositif d’enseignement/apprentissage des langues à distance en utilisant une plate-forme de téléformation à se poser la question du choix de l’outil. Après avoir défini ce qu’est une plate-forme et démontré l’intérêt des plates-formes dites ‘ouvertes’ librement tél...