Comité organisateur
Organizing committee
Martin Howard is Associate Dean (Global) in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork. His research focuses on study abroad and second language acquisition, especially in relation to French. He is founding co-editor of the journal, Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition, and has previously led a European COST Action, Study Abroad Research in European Perspective. He is currently President of the Association for French Language Studies.
Dalila Ayoun is Professor of French Linguistics and SLAT (Second Language Acquisition and Teaching) in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her research focuses on the second language acquisition of morphosyntax, more specifically TAM (tense, aspect, mood/modality) and grammatical gender. She is a handling editor for the Journal of French Language Studies and the Chair of the Research Committee for AFLS.
Jonathan Kasstan is Lecturer in French and Linguistics at the University of Westminster. His research interests broadly fall within quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistics, with a particular focus on language variation and change, and language death theory. He also conducts research on heritage languages. He is the Research Notes Editor for the Journal of French Language Studies.
AFLS Board members
emmanuelle labeau
Emmanuelle LABEAU is Reader in French Language and Linguistics at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). Emmanuelle is also the AFLS Vice-President UK Affairs and is very involved in lobbying for languages (especially French) in the UK. She leads Learning through Languages UK, a network promoting Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): She launched a YouTube channel with her mini-me Aleksandar during lockdown, as he wanted to teach his classmates French (and be a YouTube Star, so please like!!!).
Emmanuelle’s main research revolves around temporality, aspect and modality. She is about to publish a monograph on the French past historic (Brill) and is convening with Lotfi Abouda (Orléans) a Réseau sur le futur, launched in October 2019 thanks to seed funding of the French Embassy in London.
Find more about Emmanuelle here
henry tyne
Henry TYNE lectures in applied linguistics at the University of Perpignan, France, where he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. His main area of research is L2 variation, in particular within the study abroad context. Through his work on variation with students of French, he has become interested in the potential of corpora for language learning. His publications include the first book in French on corpus use in language teaching and learning (Didier, 2014, with Alex Boulton). He is a former AFLS president and led the Working Group on Social Networks within the COST Action Study Abroad in Research Perspective. His most recent publication is a book co-edited with Rosamond Mitchell, Language, Mobility and Study Abroad in the Contemporary European Context (Routledge, 2021). He may be reached at henry.tyne@univ-perp.fr
Grace A. Obaigbona
Grace A. Obaigbona is a researcher with interest in innovation for learning and teaching. Her research focuses on Blended Learning, in particular the digital development of language teaching materials that caters for different learning styles in a blended learning environment. She has a wide range of teaching experience and has taught French and English at various schools in Nigeria, France and in the UK. She is the author of Handy French and Survival French textbooks (2010).
She also worked as an Instructional Designer and Developer of e-learning tools for The National Centre for Distance Education - CNED (Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance); a 100% online Distance Learning Education administered by the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research in France.
She oversees Publicity and Communications affairs for the AFLS.
damien gaucher
Damien Gaucher is Lecturer in French Language at the University of Exeter. He currently teaches French language at undergraduate level, and has a specific interest in the domains of sociolinguistics and attitudes towards languages. Damien is the current secretary for the Association for French Language Studies.
d.gaucher@exeter.ac.uk
sabrea oughton
Sabrea Oughton is Senior Lecturer in French Language at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, University of Portsmouth. She currently teaches French language at undergraduate level, and has a specific interest in teaching French for Business. Sabrea is the current Language Practitioner for the Association for French Language Studies.
olivia walsh
Olivia Walsh is assistant professor in French sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on language ideologies in French, in particular linguistic purism in France and Quebec, standardisation and prescriptivism in France and the French-speaking world, language contact, historical sociolinguistics and French as a heritage language. Olivia is joint workshop secretary for the AFLS (along with Damien Mooney).