Contributions of experimental phonetics to the didactics of the pronunciation of the French Foreign Language: stage 1: reflection around the establishment of a corpus

Actes en version numérique; ISBN: 978-83-928167-9-9International audienceOur investigation of the pronunciation of learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) involves (i) selecting criteria for defining types of FFL learners; (ii) a preliminary reflection on the choice of materials to be recorded and the nature of the recordings; (iii) a feasibility test for the speaking materials; (iv) acoustic and physiological recordings of learners and of native speaker French subjects at the Phonetic Laboratory. Our work so far has allowed for the refining of the speaking materials, and will allow for the creation of a database containing acoustic and physiological measurements. Several implications for teaching will be studied later: analyses of errors of voicing and nasalization by the learners; assessment grids before and after specific pronunciation classes; and appropriate pronunciation exercises