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Alice Henderson - publié le 05/12/2024

[Article] This text argues that in instructed English language teaching, a key distinction needs to be made between work focusing on pronunciation and work focusing on listening. This re-focusing makes it easier to prepare learners to successfully interact, as both speakers and listeners, beyond the classroom context. The text describes the process of how the author’s approach to teaching pronunciation changed, as she became more aware of this distinction.

Ksenia Efremova - publié le 05/12/2024

[Article] In the last few years, “Dubna” University has been actively developing its Virtual Learning Environment due to the fact that online teaching and assessment is an increasingly desirable method for enhancing student learning in Higher Education. Moreover, the sanitary situation of 2020-2021 resulted in a number of new approaches and computer-assisted teaching techniques to master the pronunciation of a foreign language. The article reports on the “Connected Speech Processes” (...)

Emmanuel Ferragne, Anne Guyot Talbot, Sylvain Navarro, Francesca Sanvicente - publié le 05/12/2024

[Article] Cet article présente le projet SEPALE, à travers lequel nous avons mis au point des exercices de perception de certaines voyelles de l’anglais à destination de nos étudiants de Licence d’anglais à Université Paris Cité. Ces exercices ciblent en particulier les oppositions vocaliques avec lesquelles les apprenants francophones rencontrent les plus grandes difficultés. Nous les avons intégrés dans notre cursus et avons sollicité les retours des étudiants.

Julie Rouaud, Nathalie Huet, Anne Przewozny-Desriaux, Cécile Baron, Murièle Barou - publié le 05/12/2024

[Article] Le projet longitudinal de recherche appliquée ((PICL! (Phonologie Incarnée de l’anglais au Collège Labitrie))) propose une méthode de phonologie incarnée, c’est-à-dire qui utilise le corps et la gestualité—les expériences sensori-motrices—dans l’enseignement/apprentissage de l’anglais oral. Il s’agit d’une démarche au croisement de la psychologie cognitive et de la phonologie qui vise à améliorer les compétences phonologiques en production/perception, la (...)

Kizzi Edensor-Costille - publié le 05/12/2024

[Article] Certains accents sont plus faciles à comprendre que d'autres (Major ((et al.)), 2005). L'hypothèse selon laquelle les apprenants comprennent l'accent standard (RP : ((Received Pronunciation))) plus facilement que les autres accents est de plus en plus remise en question, tout comme le statut de l'accent RP. Certains linguistes suggèrent que ce dernier est encore plus difficile à comprendre et à acquérir que d’autres accents de l’anglais (Abercrombie, 1956 ; Macaulay, 1988 ; (...)

Dylan Michari - publié le 04/12/2024

[Article] L’anglais est une langue mondiale. Aux quatre coins du monde, elle permet à des millions de personnes, qu’elle soit langue maternelle, seconde ou étrangère, de communiquer entre elles. Par la diversité de ses locuteurs, elle esquisse les pas énergiques d’une valse linguistique et pare sa mélopée de sonorités variées : accents américain, londonien, écossais, indien – voire amalgamé – irisent la langue anglaise de leurs spécificités. Ainsi proposons-nous (...)

Frank Bardol, Daniel Petit - publié le 04/12/2024

[Article] Cet article constitue un retour d’expérience sur un parcours d’entraînement qui vise à lever les obstacles liés à la réception d’un support oral en anglais. Plusieurs outils et activités ont été convoqués selon une temporalité précise afin de faciliter la quête du sens à l’oral. Nous mettrons en avant les éléments saillants qui ont contribué aux résultats prometteurs de ce premier cycle de recherche.

Günter Leypoldt - publié le 22/11/2024

[Conférence] This talk examines T.S. Eliot's influence on Modernist poetics and the notion of tradition in ((The Waste Land)) (1922).

Virginie Thomas - publié le 14/11/2024

[Conférence] Comment les afro-américains sont-ils passés du statut d'objet de représentation à celui d'acteur d'une représentation artistique et identitaire ? Dans cette conférence, Virginie Thomas présente des exemples de productions des studios de photographie afro-américains du début du 20ème siècle, des journalistes activistes des années 1950 et 1960 et d'artistes ultra-contemporains.

Christine Vandamme - publié le 07/11/2024

[Conférence] Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'Université Grenoble Alpes, l'Ecole académique de formation continue (EAFC) et les IA-IPR d'anglais de l'académie de Grenoble, des professeurs d'anglais de lycée qui dispensent l'enseignement de spécialité LLCER Anglais ont assisté à une conférence intitulée "Representation, Heritage and Diversity in Australia" animée par Christine Vandamme.

Cameron Morin - publié le 10/10/2024

[Article] Cet article est une version abrégée et adaptée pour un public angliciste francophone d’un article scientifique récemment paru dans la revue ((PLOS One)) (Morin & Grieve 2024). Dans cet article, nous analysons l'emploi des doubles modaux en anglais américain (par exemple ((might could)), ((would might))…) à partir d'un corpus de plusieurs milliards de mots provenant de publications géolocalisées sur le réseau social Twitter entre 2013 et 2014. Nous identifions et (...)

Clara Gonnet - publié le 26/09/2024

[Conférence] Le cinéma hollywoodien fut le vecteur d’une vision du passé diffusée à grande échelle et façonnant l’imaginaire collectif : « Des pans entiers de l’histoire des États-Unis sont plus connus à travers les images transmises par les films que par les pages des plus éminents historiens » (Jacques Portes). De fait, la vision que nous avons de l’esclavage est conditionnée par les représentations filmiques du début du XXe siècle. Il est donc pertinent (...)

André Dodeman - publié le 19/09/2024

[Conférence] Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'Université Grenoble Alpes, l'Ecole académique de formation continue (EAFC) et les IA-IPR d'anglais de l'académie de Grenoble, des professeurs d'anglais de lycée qui dispensent l'enseignement de spécialité LLCER Anglais ont assisté à une conférence intitulée "From Biculturalism to Multiculturalism in Canada" animée par André Dodeman.

Lucas Leone - publié le 21/06/2024

[Question d'actualité] On July 4, 2024, British voters will elect their Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons, and therefore their new Prime Minister (PM). Current PM Rishi Sunak, who called for an early general election on May 22, aims to win a fifth term in office for the Conservative Party. With a record number of candidates, this year's election involves key figures such as Labour Party's Keir Starmer, Reform UK's Nigel Farage, and Liberal Democrats' Ed Davey. This page (...)

Lucas Leone - publié le 20/06/2024

[Fiche] Based on Shakespeare’s ((Romeo and Juliet)), ((West Side Story)) holds an important place within American culture: it started as a Broadway success, became an Oscar-winning movie in the early 1960s, and then was readapted to the big screen sixty years later by Steven Spielberg. This article analyzes how key issues such as immigration and territory are particularly addressed in each film, as well as how the racial and gender portrayal of Puerto Ricans living in mid-20th century New York (...)

Apolline Dosse - publié le 17/06/2024

[Fiche] Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel ((The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)) tells the story of a war photographer, gambler and closeted gay in Colombo during the 1980s civil war. One day, he wakes up in a bureaucratic afterlife while his body is sinking in the Beira Lake, and he is given seven moons to figure out how he died. The novel addresses the issue of transgression, whether it concerns Maali’s personal identity, his photographs which hold the subversive power to bring (...)

Helen Thompson - publié le 13/06/2024

[Conférence] Based on letters written between 1685 and 1699 by agents of the Royal African Company who had settled in West Africa, this lecture examines the place of epistolary form in late 17th-century trade, as well as the role played by “human pawns” in the credit system set up between the Royal African Company and African merchants.

Charline Dossat - publié le 22/05/2024

[Fiche] In ((Glory)), Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo gives voice to a multitude of unheard animal citizens who resist political oppression in the fictional kingdom of Jidada. She offers an original fable about her country, paying tribute to victims of the regime while glorifying collective strength.

Marie-Gaëlle Drouet - publié le 13/05/2024

[Fiche] This paper will consider how Salman Rushdie’s novel ((Victory City)) is eminently framed by multiple acts of creation involving questions of agency, artistry and resistance. In his fifteenth novel, Rushdie tells the epic story of the young orphan girl Pampa Kampana who is endowed with magical powers by a goddess and who subsequently creates the city of Bisnaga, literally meaning “Victory City” – a city supposedly modelled on the 14th century-Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, South (...)

Klaus Benesch - publié le 23/04/2024

[Conférence] Following Frank Lloyd Wright's famous aphorism, "There is no architecture without philosophy", this talk analyses the links and bridges between the fields of architecture and philosophy. Focusing specifically on architecture and hospitality, Klaus Benesch examines the importance of building in American history and outlines the central argument of his next book, ((Architecture and the Construction of Ideas)), which explores the use of architecture by thinkers and philosophers of (...)

Fleur-Ann Dany Brouard - publié le 14/03/2024

[Fiche] In ((The Doctor and the Saint)), Arundhati Roy compares and contrasts the lives and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution. Analyzing the two men's trajectories, Roy seeks to explain their conflict on the subject of Untouchability during the Second Round Table Conference (1931). In doing so, she dismantles the myth of Gandhi's sainthood and radical progressivism while defending and justifying Ambedkar's attack on Hinduism. Through its (...)

Lowell Duckert - publié le 16/02/2024

[Conférence] How can words and concepts from the Early Modern period help us address today's environmental issues? In this talk, Lowell Duckert outlines the basic tenets of the Environmental Humanities and the different methodologies this field draws on, before giving examples of Early Modern texts describing ecological issues.

Mathilde Branchereau - publié le 14/02/2024

[Fiche] In ((A View of the Empire at Sunset)), Caryl Phillips proposes a fictionalised version of the life of novelist Jean Rhys – a Creole woman from Dominica expatriated in Europe – as a mirror image of the decline and dissolution of the British colonial Empire over the course of the 20th century. By depicting the protagonist’s struggle to find a sense of belonging, the novel highlights how colonial subjects may be confronted to a feeling of identity ambivalence and a loss of bearings.

Vanessa Guignery, Jaine Chemmachery, Cédric Courtois - publié le 25/01/2024

[Conférence] Cette page propose trois interventions sur le genre du "Refugee writing". Vanessa Guignery présente tout d'abord les modalités et définitions de ce genre, puis Jaine Chemmachery analyse les formes littéraires et intermédiales des ((Refugee Tales)), inspirées des ((Canterbury Tales)) de Chaucer, et du projet "28 for 28". Enfin, Cédric Courtois se penche sur la forme de la nouvelle, qui a pu être qualifiée de "mineure" et que les autrices de son corpus ont choisie pour (...)

Céline Bonicco-Donato - publié le 18/01/2024

[Conférence] À travers trois réalisations de l'architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Céline Bonicco-Donato analyse la manière dont celui-ci s'est inspiré de plusieurs courants de la philosophie américaine (notamment le transcendantalisme de Ralph Waldo Emerson et le pragmatisme de John Dewey) afin de développer sa propre philosophie architecturale et urbaine, travaillée par deux grands principes : "l'intérieur est un dehors, l'extérieur est un dedans" et "la partie est (...)

Agathe Viffray - publié le 15/12/2023

[Fiche] Pre-Raphaelite women artists assimilated the type of the erudite woman that had been forged by their male counterparts: they complied with the canon, yet slightly shifted it by softening the usual rejection of the learned woman and emphasising the idea of freedom linked to the possession of knowledge. From the (twin) figures of the governess and the Angel in the House (two forms of possession of knowledge deemed acceptable for women by Victorian society) to the image of the sorceress (...)

Virginie Thomas - publié le 17/11/2023

[Fiche] Very few representations of female knowledge can be found in Pre-Raphaelite paintings without them being imbued with a threatening dimension. Female knowledge is necessarily associated with the representation of a domesticated woman, echoing the recommendations of the time defined, for example, by John Ruskin in ((Sesame and Lilies)). On the contrary, the aim of the pictures of learned women was to send a warning against the deadly potential of woman's unwonted curiosity through the use (...)

Christine Vandamme - publié le 17/11/2023

[Article] The article deals with women and knowledge in Charlotte Brontë’s ((Jane Eyre)) (1847). The novel was quite revolutionary in its time for its strong assertion of female agency and self-empowerment and a keen perception of power dynamics inherent in the definition of gender and gender roles. However considering ((Jane Eyre)) through the sole prism of a novel of emancipation only dealing with women’s rights and aspirations would be reductive. ((Jane Eyre))’s fiery narrative is a (...)

Véronique Molinari - publié le 17/11/2023

[Article] This article provides an overview of the different ways in which women were educated in the Victorian period, from home-schooling to private day-schools and boarding schools. While the campaign for educational reform was seen, within the context of the Industrial Revolution and the growing feminist movement, as a key to freedom, improvements in female education were also met with resistance.

Elsa Benamouzig - publié le 08/11/2023

[Fiche] In 1979, Robert Benton’s film ((Kramer vs Kramer)) set a new path for family dramas in Hollywood. The acclaimed movie follows the journey of Ted Kramer from absent to great father as a single dad, including a portrayal of his failures and vulnerabilities. His divorce and unusual position as the main care-taker of his child changed the perception of the father’s role not only in the movies, but also in American households.