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Elodie Vialleton

Head of French, Lecturer in French

The Open University Faculty of Education and Language Studies Department of Languages

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Profile

I have been a Lecturer in French at the Open University since 2005 and Head of French since January 2008.

Since I started working at the Open University, I have written course materials for most of our French courses. I was previously course team chair of L192 Beginners French. I currently chair LXR122 (French residential school) and I co-chair the production of a new intermediate course in Italian, L150 Vivace, which will be available from 2011. I am also a member of the Department of Languages VLE group.

Before joining the OU, I taught at Worcester College, Oxford, and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. I was a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College, USA, in 1993-94.

Teaching Interests

I am currently the chair of LXR122 Action in French, the OU standalone French residential course at the University of Caen, and co-chair of the production of L150 Vivace (Intermediate Italian). In the past I chaired and wrote course materials for L192 Bon Départ (Beginners French. I was a unit author and book coordinator for the latest edition of L120 Ouverture (Intermediate French) and of L211 Envol (Upper Intermediate French). I have been a tutor and a course director for LZX122 Action in French at our residential school in France.

I am interested in the use of technology in language teaching. I am a member of the Department's VLE group which coordinates the use of online conferencing and online tools in our language courses. I am also particularly interested in the teaching of listening and speaking skills and in the use of authentic speech in language teaching.

Research Interests

I am interested in the linguistic analysis and teaching of spoken French and English. I am currently researching on the use of authentic speech in language teaching.

I was also involved in the TRIDEM project with colleagues from the Open University, the Université de Franche-Comté and Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 and 2006. This looked at bilingual telecollaboration between students of these three universities using synchronous and asynchronous online tools. I am now analysis data from this project with my colleague Tim Lewis.

Publications

Book Chapter
Coleman, James A. and Vialleton, Elodie (2011). French Studies at the Open University: pointers to the future. In: Lane, Philippe and Worton, Michael eds. French Studies in and for the 21st Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 235–246.
Conference Item
Vialleton, Elodie and Lewis, Tim (2011). Reconsidering authenticity: using spontaneous speech to develop listening skills in adult beginner distance learners of French. In: Annual Conference of the Association for French Language Studies, 8-10 September 2011, Nancy, France.
Vialleton, Elodie and Lewis, Timothy (2010). Partnerships with the Open University department of languages: current experience and future opportunities. In: Les partenariats universitaires franco-britanniques, 5 Feb 2010, London, UK.
Journal Article
Lewis , Tim and Vialleton, Elodie (2011). The Notions of Control and Consciousness in Learner Autonomy and Self-Regulated Learning: a comparison and critique. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 5(2), pp. 205–219.
Passot, Frédérique; Szlamowicz, Jean and Vialleton, Elodie (2000). Les interrogatives en anglais oral spontané: intonation et énonciation. Anglophonia-Sigma, 8 pp. 125–152.