UMass Boston

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

PhD, French Linguistics, Indiana University - Bloomington

• "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.)

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