Emmanuelle Labeau

Languages & Social Sciences
Senior Lecturer in French, Translation Studies
French
Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC)
Co-Director, Centre for Language Research at Aston (CLaRA)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0041-8023

United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Tense, Aspect, Modality Sociolinguistics History of French Variation and change in French

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Personal profile

General

A long time ago, coming from a not so far away country, Emmanuelle joined Aston University as a language assistant. Her desire to become a better teacher spurred her into embarking on a part-time PhD on ‘The Acquisition of French Past Tenses by Anglophone Learners’, while starting an appointment as a teaching fellow.

This got the ball rolling for a long-standing interest in all things verbal. Emmanuelle has extensively published on French tenses, their use and their evolution both on her own and in collaboration. Her research is inspired by authentic linguistic data and she has been a prolific corpus gatherer over the years and has received a number of grants for that purpose. Her current projects include a monograph on the French passé simple, work on the go- and come-periphrases with Professor Jacques Bres (Montpellier 3), a British Academy research project on French in Brussels with Professor Florence Lefebvre (Paris 3, Sorbonne nouvelle) and Dr Anne Dister (St Louis), and she is planning a study of trilingual language acquisition (featuring her son!) with Professor Tijana Asic (Kragujevac / Belgrade).

Emmanuelle is keen to share her passion for languages with colleagues and students alike. Indeed, she has been involved in the Association for French Language Study (of which she is currently the President) since 2001 to promote French in academia, and she has organised over 10 academic conferences at Aston. She also likes to share her research in class, and to make her students budding researchers! At the University level, she was instrumental in the development of the University Wide Language Programme (that she has been heading since 2007) and initiated the launch of Languages for All, a scheme that was shortlisted for the Guardian University Awards 2013.

Research Interests

Tense, aspect and mood in French as a first and a second language
French language (history and evolution)
French in Belgium and in Brussels

Teaching Activity

French Language Skills (LF1005) (course convenor)
Hiistoire de la langue française (LF2014)
Contemporary French (LF3007)
Intepreting French (LI3203)

PhD Supervision

Inès Saddour: The expression of simultaneity in Tunisian Arabic L1, French L1 and French L2 by Tunisian Arabic adult learners
Said Djama Dirie (2011-): Market Languages in the Horn of Africa.
Qiaochao Zhang (2009- :Developing a Pedagogical Framework for teaching the Chinese aspect marking system – a comparative study of translation method and communication method

Qualifications

PhD: The Acquisition of French past tenses by tutored Anglophone advanced learners: is aspect enough? (Aston University 2003)
Master degree: Licence spéciale en science de l’information et de la documentation (Université libre de Bruxelles). Grade: distinction
Certificat d’aptitude à l’enseignement du français, langue étrangère (Institut de Phonétique de l’ULB): grade scientifique. (Teaching French as a second language)
Agrégation de l’Enseignement secondaire supérieur (ULB). Grade: grande distinction. (Teaching French as a first language)
Licence (4 year course) en philologie romane (ULB). Grade: grande distinction.