Rebecca Guy

• Grenoble Institute of Technology

Oral communication is a physical activity. In second language acquisition, a greater awareness of, and work upon, the body in relation to language production is important for raising confidence and thus improving performance. This applies to the learner but also to the teacher, who serves as language model and motivator. Our approach, transmitted p...

Speaking English poses many difficulties for French learners, especially in the field of LSP / LAP2 where they are young adults and time and resources are often very limited. Language and music have many things in common: in both of these human behaviours, rhythm, tone and timbre are primordial and it is in the area of prosody that the differences...