Research interests

My current research interests focus mainly on accentedness and pronunciation in French learners.

For my Ph.D. research, I want to explore how social and identity elements link to pronunciation and how personal factors in learners' backgrounds may influence their accentedness over time.

I use mostly qualitative-oriented approaches to explore the impact of language socialization on accentedness and the repercussions of socialization on investment in learners' pronunciation.

Additional interests

Within the sociolinguistic field, I'm particularly interested in exploring the effects of accents as an instrument of social discrimination and how the standardization of an ideological (unexisting) norm is used to empower the dominant social class(es).

My literary interests are focused on 19th-century literature. I'm especially committed to examining the questions of author-narrator duality and in the interpretation of mental health in 19th-century authors through their literary works.

Other cultural interests involve the expression of identities in the modern francophone culture, including gender, race, sexual orientation, and social class.

Previous work

For my Master's thesis, I explored segmental and suprasegmental features of the accent in French learners of Italian and Italian learners of French.

My Master's thesis focused on the technical skills and corrective methodology in pronunciation as a basis to improve accentedness. I've also focused on other elements, such as the phonographic gap, choice of material in class, and gesture codes in pronunciation teaching.

Conferences

PSLLT 2023 - 14th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference at Purdue University - September 6-8, 2023. Presentation: Accentedness implications on emergent identity: a cross-sectional study of non-native French speakers

AAAL 2024 - Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Houston, Texas - March 16-19, 2024. Presentation: Autoethnography on accentedness in L2: First-person account of navigating linguistic identities and social aspects

Future presentations

AFSL 2024 - Annual Conference of the Association of French Language Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans - September 25-27, 2024. Presentation: Accents régionaux et discrimination : enjeux identitaires et insécurité linguistique attribuables aux mécanismes d'établissement des idéologies dans la France contemporaine

Other presentations

Panelist at MSU International GTA orientation program - August 25, 2023. The Path Forward: Experiences of International GTAs

MSU Spring Conference on Teaching and Learning - April 19, 2024. Presentation: Enhancing French learners’ engagement through Nearpod