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Dr Hugues Peters
Senior Lecturer

Dr Hugues Peters

BA: Université de Namur, Belgique; MA: Université Libre de Bruxelles; PhD: The Pennsylvania State University; Teaching Certificate: Université Libre de Bruxelles/UNSW, Sydney

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School of Humanities & Languages

Dr. Hugues PETERS is Senior Lecturer in French studies in the School of Humanities and Languages. He received his Master in Romance Philology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and his PhD in French Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. Before his arrival at UNSW, Sydney, in 2005, he had taught for 8 years in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and held research positions at the University of Brussels Phonetic Institute and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva.

He is an academic with international teaching experience of the French language as a foreign language at all levels. He is the author with Christopher Laenzlinger of Des savoirs linguistiques aux savoirs scolaires. L'accès à la grammaire par le lexique (Editions Lambert-Lucas, Limoges, France, 2016), and the creator of a learners' corpus of spoken French: The UWI French L2 Corpus. (SLA-Bank Talkbank, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.21415/T5G975). He strives to apply his research on French grammar and culture and on second language acquisition to the teaching of French at UNSW, more recently on the topic of language inclusivity.

Some recent publications:

  • 2021, 'Une explication morpho-syntactique des asymétries d’usage de déterminants genrés en français L2', in Saddour I; Gunnarsson-Largy C (ed.), Réflexion sur les usages et les utilisateurs du français : aspects acquisitionnels et didactiques, Peter Lang, Bruxelles, pp. 63 - 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b17073 
  • 2020, 'Gender-inclusivity and gender-neutrality in foreign language teaching: The case of French', Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 3, pp. 183 - 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.29140/ajal.v3n3.332 
  • 2020, 'Alain Rabatel et Laurence Rosier (coord.), Les défis de l’écriture inclusive', Cahiers de praxématique [en ligne], 74 http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/praxematique.6493 
  • 2019, 'Asymmetric self-repair in gender attribution', in Degand L; Gilquin G; Meurant L; Simon AC (eds.), Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties (Series:  Corpora and Language in Use), Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 261 - 281.  https://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?gcoi=29303100240530#h2tabDetails 

Some articles on French syntax:

Older articles on French poetry:

  • 1997, 'De part en part, mordent les vers des maladies. Analyse métrique d'un poème de Verhaeren', Études Francophones, 12(2), 113-126.
  • 1996, 'Patrick Laude, L’Éden entredit: Lecture de La chanson d’Eve de Charles Van Lerberghe', Études Francophones, 11(1), 158-161.
  • 1992, Comparaison entre Bruges-la-Morte et Les Gommes. Écritures de la Modernité', Présence Francophone, 41, 74-96.

 

He is available for supervision in areas of Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and all areas of French studies.

  • Ph.D theses supervised:
  • Abdullah Alghamdi (joint-supervision with Mengistu Amberber). From root to nunation: the morphology of Arabic nouns. UNSW, Sydney (2015)
  • Xinyue Yao. The present perfect in English: meaning interpretation and use. UNSW, Sydney (2014)
  • BA Honours & MA theses supervised:
  • Renée Gail Davy (joint supervision with Michele Kennedy). Syntactic Transfer in the Written Language of Jamaican High School Students Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language, UWI, Mona (2016).
  • Claire Linwood. Les antinomies de la justice: L'idée républicaine et la discrimination positive dans l'enseignement supérieur français. UNSW, Sydney (2014)
  • Matthew Haultain-Gall (joint supervision with Peter Schrijvers). De soldat à citoyen. la sortie de guerre de la 1ère division australienne en Belgique 1918-1919. UNSW, Sydney (2012).
  • Miranda Shatwell. Conceptions of the national language, the nation and national identity in 19th century France. UNSW, Sydney (2011)
Phone
02 9385 1440
E-mail
h.peters@unsw.edu.au
Location
275 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2016
    Peters H; Laenzlinger C, 2016, Des savoirs linguistiques aux savoirs scolaires. L'accès à la grammaire par le lexique., Editions Lambert-Lucas, Limoges, France
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    2021, 'Une explication morpho-syntactique des asymétries d’usage de déterminants genrés en français L2', in Saddour I; Gunnarsson-Largy C (ed.), Réflexions sur les usages et les utilisateurs du français : aspects acquisitionnels et didactiques, Peter Lang, Bruxelles, pp. 63 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b17073
    Book Chapters | 2019
    2019, 'Asymmetric self-repair in gender attribution', in Degand L; Gilquin G; Meurant L; Simon AC (ed.), Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 261 - 281, https://pul.uclouvain.be/book/?gcoi=29303100240530#h2tabDetails
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Peters H, 2014, 'Etude sur la complémentation infinitive des verbes de déplacement sur la base d'un corpus de productions orales d'apprenants jamaicains de FLE et suggestions pédagogiques', in de Serres L; Ghillebaert F; Mather P-A; Bosch A (ed.), Aspects culturels, linguistiques et didactiques de l'enseignement-apprentissage du français à un public non-francophone, Association Internationale des Etudes Québécoises, Québec (Québec), pp. 62 - 84
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Laenzlinger C; Peters H; Moeschler J, 2012, 'Didactique du lexique et enseignement de la grammaire.', in Kamber A; Skupien-Dekens C (ed.), Recherches récentes en FLE, edn. Original, Peter Lang (Series: Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa/Multilingualism in Europe - Volume 6), Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, pp. 147 - 173, http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=65413&cid=5
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Cevaer F; Peters H, 2005, 'Stratégie de politique éducative pour une meilleure intégration régionale: Evaluation du nouvel examen de français des pays anglophones de la Caraibe: le CAPE', in Lerat C (ed.), Le monde caraïbe: défis et dynamiques, Presses de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, Pessac, France, pp. 227 - 240
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Peters H; Barnaby L, 2003, 'Teaching a reading course in French as a foreign language requirement', in Bastick T; Ezenne A (ed.), Researching Change in Caribbean Education: Curriculum, Teaching and Administration, edn. Original, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, pp. 195 - 216
  • Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Alain Rabatel et Laurence Rosier (coord.), Les défis de l’écriture inclusive', Cahiers de praxématique, http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/praxematique.6493
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Gender-inclusivity and gender-neutrality in foreign language teaching: The case of French', Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 3, pp. 183 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.29140/ajal.v3n3.332
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Boucher Paul, A Linguistic Handbook of French for Translators and Language Students. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2018, xiv 297 pp. 978 90 272 0061 7 (relié) / 978 90 272 0062 4 (broché) / 978 90 272 6418 3 (eBook).', Journal of French Language Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269519000164
    Journal articles | 2017
    Peters H, 2017, 'Comportements d'autocorrection et d'hésitation manifestés par les apprenants de FLE au cours de conversations orales spontanées', Bulletin VALS-ASLA, No Spécial, Tome 2, pp. 133 - 145, http://doc.rero.ch/record/288612
    Journal articles | 2014
    Péters H, 2014, 'The morpho-syntactic status of ne and its effect on the syntax of imperative sentences', Journal of French Language Studies, 24, pp. 49 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959269513000343
    Journal articles | 2009
    Laenzlinger C; Peters H, 2009, 'LexiGrammaIRE – Lexique, grammaire, interprétation: ressources linguistiques pour l'enseignement du français', Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Française, 29, pp. 41 - 82, http://clf.unige.ch/num.php?numero=29
    Journal articles | 2009
    Peters H; Stewart M, 2009, 'The syntax of determination in a corpus of oral productions of Jamaican learners of French: word order and agreement patterns in nominal phrases', The International Journal of the Humanities, 7, pp. 51 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v07i09/42735
    Journal articles | 2009
    Peters H, 2009, 'Développement d'un corpus oral d'apprenants: apport à la didactique du français langue étrangère dans les Caraibes anglophones', University of Porto Rico Working Papers in Linguistics, 2, pp. 21 - 32, http://linguistica.uprrp.edu/
    Journal articles | 2009
    Peters H, 2009, 'Lexical features in oral interlanguage: the acquisition of multifunctional words by adult Jamaican learners of French', The International Journal of the Humanities, 7, pp. 97 - 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v07i06/42706
    Journal articles | 2006
    Peters H, 2006, 'Development of a Longitudinal Oral Interlanguage Corpus of Jamaican Learners of French', Caribbean Journal of Education, 27, pp. 201 - 222
  • Conference Papers | 2017
    Peters H, 2017, 'Morphosyntactic regularities in retracing phenomena in the speech of second language learners of French', in Degand L (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference "Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties", Université Catholique de Louvain, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, pp. 86 - 88, presented at Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15 February 2017 - 17 February 2017, http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195807
    Other | 2017
    2017, The UWI French L2 Corpus, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21415/T5G975
    Conference Papers | 2011
    Peters H, 2011, 'Non-finite complementation in French L2: a learner corpus approach', in Ponsonnet M; Dao L; Bowler M (eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2011, Australian National University, Canberra ACT, 2 - 4 December 2011, Research Repository https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au, Canberra, ACT, pp. 315 - 350, presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, ANU Canberra, 02 December 2011 - 04 December 2011, http://hdl.handle.net/1885/9420
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Tabensky A; Peters H, 2010, 'Comment faire entrer le monde francophone dans la salle de classe: Skype', in Meunier J; Atherton B; Grauby F; Royer M (eds.), Le français et la diversité francophone en Asie-Pacifique. Actes du 2ème Congrès de la CAP - FIPF Sydney 2010, Gerflint, Sydney, pp. 231 - 241, presented at Congrès de la Commission Asie Pacifique Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français, Sydney, 02 December 2010 - 05 December 2010, http://fipf.org/sites/fipf.org/files/livre__pacifique__final.pdf
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Peters H, 2006, 'The acquisition of negative construals by Jamaican learners of French: a pedagogical orientation', in Proceedings of the International Conference: Research on 2nd and foreign language acquisition and teaching, Groupe "Langues en contacts et appropriations", DILTEC, Paris-Sorbonne, Sept 6-8, 2006, Research on 2nd and foreign language acquisition and teaching, Paris III Sorbonne, France, presented at Research on 2nd and foreign language acquisition and teaching, Paris III Sorbonne, France, 06 September 2006 - 08 September 2006
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Peters H, 2004, 'The syntax of negation in a corpus of oral productions of Jamaican learners of French L2 at the undergraduate level', in Konig F, Gaies S, Gao Y, Li F & Tang D. (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, Beijing-Shanghai, The University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, pp. 558 - 568, presented at the 6th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, Beijing, China, 07 August 2004 - 15 August 2004

Recipient of the “Distinguished Researcher” award, Mona Campus, from the Office of the Principal, in recognition of outstanding research in the Faculty of Arts and Education, UWI, Mona (Oct. 11, 2001) http://old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20011106/lead/lead4.html

My current research interests include pedagogical approaches to the grammar of French, the morphosyntax of French, Gender inclusivity, and second language acquisition of French.

My Research Supervision

Abdulrahman Alrezqy

My Teaching

I regularly teach all levels of French language from the introductory level to the professional level, as well as contextual elective courses taught in English.

In 2021, I am the convenor of:

  • ARTS2480 Intermediate French A
  • ARTS2481 Intermediate French B
  • ARTS2485 Exploring French Linguistics
  • ARTS2486 The French speaking world
  • ARTS0213 Special Project in French studies