Charlotte Alazard-Guiu

Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès | UTM · Unité de recherche interdisciplinaire OCTOGONE

With increasing evidence in favour of embodied learning techniques, more research is needed to explore eventual applications in the field of second language acquisition, for example, the effect of embodied training on phonological learning. This study investigated how pronunciation was affected by visuospatial hand gestures depicting speech rhythm...

This study aims at developing an automatic system for measuring speech fluency in a second language (L2). Eighteen learners of French, all of them native speakers of English, were recorded during read-aloud tasks in French. Six native-French speakers with a background in L2 acquisition and phonetics rated the recordings in terms of speech fluency....

This communication was presented during the L2pronunciation research workshop in Barcelona on June 7th. It deals with the question of the acquisition of phonetics in L2. We compared the effects of two different methods of phonetic training on the acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental over time. https://sites.google.com/view/l2prw2019/home

Cette communication propose d'articuler des points de vue issus du terrain et de la recherche sur la place de la phonétique corrective dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères. Après une première enquête de terrain qui interroge des pédagogues sur leur formation et la place de l'oral et de l'oralité dans leurs pratiques, un regard historique est...

In a design-based research approach (Barab & Squire, 2004), we are currently developing the first prototype of a collaborative Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) website. It focuses on technical vocabulary to help students master any field of LSP better. “Check Your Smile” is a platform aggregating various types of gameplays for each of which gam...

In this article, we report on the use of an automatic technique to assess pronunciation in the context of several types of speech disorders. Even if such tools already exist, they are more widely used in a different context, namely, Computer-Assisted Language Learning, in which the objective is to assess nonnative pronunciation by detecting learner...

This study investigates the influence of oral training on reading out loud in French as a Foreign Language (FFL). Based on the implicit prosody hypothesis by Fodor (2002), we venture that working on the phonetic correction orally will improve speaking fluency, as well as reading fluency, and facilitate the decoding of the written test. We think tha...

This study investigates the influence of oral training on reading out loud in French as a Foreign Language (FFL). Based on the implicit prosody hypothesis by Fodor (2002), we venture that working on the phonetic correction orally will improve speaking fluency, as well as reading fluency, and facilitate the decoding of the written test. We think tha...

The Multiphonia Corpus consists of audio-video classroom recordings comparing two methods of phonetic correction (the ‘traditional’ articulatory method, and the Verbo-Tonal Method) This database was created not only to remedy the crucial lack of information and pedagogical resources on teaching pronunciation but also to test the benefit of VTM on S...

This study investigates the positive influence of oral skills' training on reading abilities for learners of French as a foreign language. We hypothesize that teaching prosody, especially at an early stage of the learning process, will not only improve students' speech fluency and pronunciation skills, but also dramatically improve their strategies...