UMass Boston

Corinne Etienne

Department:
Applied Linguistics
Title:
Department Chair
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Areas of Expertise

Sociolinguistic competence in French, language contacts, language norms, and language attitudes in France and Creole speaking areas (in particular Haiti), foreign language pedagogy, and teacher cognition

Degrees

PhD, French Linguistics, Indiana University - Bloomington

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • "French in Haiti: Contacts and conflicts between linguistic representations." In D. Piston-Hatlen, C. Clements, T. Klingler, & K. Rottet (Eds.), Pidgin-Creole Interfaces: Studies in honor of Albert Valdman. (John Benjamins Publishers, in press.)
  • (Etienne, C. & Sax, K.) "Teaching stylistic variation through film." French Review, 79 :5, (2006), pp. 934-950.
  • "Lexical particularities of French in the Haitian press: Readers’ perceptions and appropriation." Journal of French Language Studies (Cambridge University Press), 15 (3), (2005), pp. 257-277.
  • "Language contact and readers’ attitudes toward French in the Haitian press." In J. Auger & A. Word-Allbritton (Eds.), The CVC of sociolinguistics: Contacts, variation, and culture, IULC, 2 (pp. 21-33). (Indiana University, Bloomington, 2000.)

Additional Information

Research Interests:

Professor Corinne Etienne's primary areas of interest include language contact and language attitudes in Creole speaking areas (in particular Haiti), foreign language pedagogy, and teacher cognition.

Classes taught:

APLING 601 Linguistics

APLING 611 Methods & Materials in Foreign Language Education

APLING 612 Integrating Culture into the Language Curriculum

APLING 621 Psycholinguistics