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Prof. Anita Thomas

© Alan Humerose

Member of the Board of Directors

+41 26 300 79 71
anita.thomas@unifr.ch

Full Professor of French as a foreign language

Research Interests

  • Acquisition, learning, and teaching of French as a foreign/ second language
  • Influence of input, input and interaction, levels of acquisition
  • Multilingualism and norms
  • Psycholinguistics, cognitive processes
  • French, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, priming

 
Research projects (direction)
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Title
Comprehension and interaction in French as a foreign language
Status
In progress
The purpose of this project is to study the ‟comprehension‟ aspect of oral interaction competence. More specifically, this involves studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of comprehension in oral... more
Title
Comparison of idiomatic expressions in Switzerland’s four national languages
Status
Completed
This project culminates in a book in four languages that is designed for the general public. In the book, roughly 40 expressions in Rhaeto-Romanic (all idioms), Italian, German (including examples in Swiss German) and... more
Title
Corpora of DaF- and FLE learners
Status
Completed
The main goal of this project is to compile an inventory of existing corpora containing productions of learners of German and French as a foreign language; a further objective is defining gaps and needs in this area.... more
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Research corpora for teaching purposes
Status
Completed
The aim of this project is to investigate the potential uses of research corpora in teaching. This long-term project is carried out in collaboration with other research groups in Switzerland and France, in particular in... more
Title
Collaborative writing and development of note-taking skills
Status
Completed
Financed by Fond d’Innovation de la Faculté des lettres, University of Fribourg The aim of this project is to test the use of the digital collaborative writing tool FRAMAPAD https://framapad.org to support the note-... more
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