Anita Thomas
anita.thomas@unifr.ch
+41 26 300 7971
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6777-3006
- Second language acquisition (L2 - SLA) and second language development
- Teaching and learning French as a Foreign/Second Language
- Input and interaction
- Teaching interaction
- Multilingualism and norms
- Psycholinguistics, cognitive processes, priming
- Corpus linguistics
Professor
Department of Multilingualism and Foreign Language Education
Rue de Rome 1
1700 Fribourg
Biography
Anita Thomas spent the first part of her life in French-speaking Switzerland where she also completed her first studies (University of Geneva). She worked for nearly 10 years in the associative sector before moving to Lund in Sweden, where she studied French and linguistics, and wrote a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Susanne Schlyter. In 2009, she completed her PhD in French linguistics at the University of Lund. She then worked as a senior lecturer in French language and linguistics and collaborated on various research projects, including one on "Age of onset and development of French" and another on "French spoken language in interaction and teaching". In 2012, she received a scholarship from the Birgit Rausing Language Programme that allowed her to spend 7 months at the Department of Linguistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada). Between 2014 and 2016, she worked as a senior lecturer in French language and linguistics at Dalarna University, where all teaching was online. Since August 1, 2016, she holds the position of full professor of French as a foreign language (FLE) at the University of Fribourg. She was vice-dean of the Faculty 2021-2023 and is currently (since 2024) director of the Institute of Multilingualism.
Research projects:
- 2021-2024: Digitization and the development of oral interaction skills (DICOI)- https://centre-plurilinguisme.ch/en/recherche/Dicoi
- 2024-2028: L’influence de la qualité de l’input dans l’enseignement du FLE - https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/219847
Research and publications
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Publications (ORCID)
30 publications
Corpus d’élèves en langue étrangère
Babylonia (2024) | Journal articleLes corpus comme input et comme output : l’exemple des marqueurs 'bon' et 'bien'
Babylonia (2024) | Journal articleCorpus d’apprenant-es : un « basquette » de ressources pour l’enseignement des langues étrangères
Babylonia Journal of Language Education (2024) | Journal articleL’apprentissage du vocabulaire en français L2 avec Netflix : effet des activités de pré-/post-visionnage
Journal of French Language Studies (2024) | Journal articleUtilisation des corpus pour l’enseignement de l’interaction en formation professionnelle de métiers manuels : exemple d’un exercice numérique sur « genre »
Corpus (2023) | Journal articleCan variation in input explain variation in typical spoken target-language features during study abroad?
Journal of the European Second Language Association (2022) | Journal articleCorpus et exercices en ligne, complémentarité ou redondance? L’exemple des pronoms relatifs 'qui' et 'que'
Bulletin Suisse de linguistique appliquée (2021) | Journal articleLe rôle de l’input , in Introduction à l’acquisition des langues étrangères
Anita Thomas, Jonas Granfeldt, Malin Ågren (2021) | Book chapterLe rôle de l’input pour le développement du vocabulaire et de la grammaire en acquisition du français par des enfants monolingues et bilingues , in Actes du XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Copenhague, 1-6 juillet 2019)
Jonas Granfeldt, Malin Ågren, Anita Thomas (2021) | Book chapterPrise de notes collaborative en milieu universitaire : un défi pour la collaboration, une ressource pour la didactique de l’écrit en classe de FOU , in Réflexions sur les usages et les utilisateurs du français : aspects acquisitionnels et didactiques
Marie Waeber, Alessandra Keller-Gerber, Anita Thomas (2021) | Book chapter