Lic.Phil.Rom., Lic.Droit Europ. & Internat., Doct.èsL (Brussels), Reader in French and Applied Linguistics: Interlanguage studies; French linguistics.
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Jean-Marc Dewaele is Reader in French and Applied Linguistics. His teaching and research interests are in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics, second language acquisition and production, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and bilingualism. His current projects include the study of "Bilingualism and emotions" (with Dr. Aneta Pavlenko from Temple University, Philadelphia) and "The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in the L2" (with Professor Raymond Mougeon from York University, Ontario). He has co-organised 11 panels and worskshops on these topics at international conferences.
He is member of the Executive Committees of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA), the International Association of Multilingualism, and AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics), where he is Scientific Commissions Coordinator and President of the commission to reform the organisation of scientific commissions within AILA. He was member of the Executive Committee of the Association for French Language Studies (AFLS) between 2001 en 2004.
He is a member of editorial boards of the following international refereed journals: The International Journal of Multilingualism; AILA Review; Intercultural Pragmatics ; Estudios de Sociolinguistica; EUROSLA Yearbook; Estudios de Linguistica Inglesa Aplicada.
He is General editor of AILA Review and of the AILA Book Series (John Benjamins Amsterdam - Philadelphia) (both with Professor Jasone Cenoz).
He is occasional reviewer for the following journals: Language Learning, Journal of French Language Studies, Cahiers-Association of French Language Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Bilingualism, The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Second Language Research, Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, LINX, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Multilingua.
He teaches courses of the following degree programmes:
Publications
Books and special issues
Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism (with Li Wei and Alex Housen) (2002) Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017305-0. With contributions from J. Fishman, J. Edwards, T. Skutnabb-Kangas, J.J. Smolicz, H. Schiffman, P. Nelde, P. Weber, J. Viikberg, D.r Kalogjera, W. Woelck, B. Spolsky, T. Marr, V. de Klerk, F. Coulmas, M. Watanabe, X. Daming, B. H. Jernudd, W. Mackey, Li Wei, J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen.
Bilingualism: Basic Principles and Beyond. (with Li Wei and Alex Housen) (2003) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 1-85359-626-4. With contributions from H. Baetens Beardsmore, J. Edwards, M. Clyne, J. Cummins, G. M. Jones, L. Milroy, A. Fraser Gupta, G. Lüdi, C. Myers-Scotton, F. Genesee, E. Lee, Li Wei, J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen.
Focus on French as a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches (2005) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 1-85359-767-8. With contributions from M. Watorek, C. Perdue, V. Hancock, N. Kirchmeyer, S. Schlyter, M. Howard, F. Myles, D. Véronique, M. Prodeau, J. Granfeldt, V. Regan, R. Towell, J.-M. Dewaele.
Special issue (2002) of Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère – AILE. Title: L’appropriation de la variation en français langue étrangère 17, December (with Prof. R. Mougeon).
Special issue (2003) of the International Journal of Bilingualism. Title: New directions in the study of bilingual memory 7, 3. (with Dr. A. Pavlenko and Dr. R. Schrauf).
Special issue (2004) of the Estudios de Sociolinguistica, 5 (1). Title: Bilingualism and emotion (with Dr. A. Pavlenko).
Special double issue (2004) of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 25 (2-3) Title: Languages and Emotions: A crosslinguistic perspective. (with Dr. A. Pavlenko).
Special issue (2004) of International Review of Applied Linguistics. 42 (4) Title: Patterns of variation in the interlanguage of advanced Second Language learners (with Prof. R. Mougeon).
Articles and chapters in international refereed journals and books
(1988) A propos de la découverte du temps opératif par Gustave Guillaume. Travaux de Linguistique - Revue internationale de linguistique française, 16, 57-68.
(1992) L'omission du ne dans deux styles d'interlangue française. Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 7, 1, 3-17.
(1993) Extraversion et richesse lexicale dans deux styles d'interlangue française. I.T.L., Review of Applied Linguistics, 100, 87-105.
(1993) Les pauses dans deux styles oraux d'interlangue française. In: A. Crochetière, J.C. Boulanger, C. Ouellon (eds.), Actes du XVe Congrès International des Linguistes. Québec, Université Laval, 9-14 aout 1992. Sainte-Foy : PU Laval.
(1993) Variation in the morphosyntactic and lexical systems of French-based interlanguages. In B. Ketteman & W. Wieden (eds.), Current Issues in European Second Language Acquisition Research, Tübingen: Narr, 130-140.
(1994) A propos de moniteurs. Analyse critique des théories psycholinguistiques de Krashen et de Levelt-de Bot. Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8, 2, 65-78.
(1994) Evaluation du texte interprété: sur quoi se basent les interlocuteurs natifs ? In D. Blampain (ed.), Traduction et interprétation dans la Belgique multilingue, numéro spécial META -Journal des Traducteurs-Translators' Journal. 39, 1, 78-86.
(1994) Extraversion et interlangue. In J. Pochard (ed.), Profils d'apprenants. Saint Etienne, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 173-187.
(1994) Variation synchronique dans l'interlangue française - Résumé de thèse, Travaux de Linguistique - Revue internationale de linguistique française, 28, 209-210.
(1994) Variation synchronique des taux d'exactitude. Analyse de fréquence des erreurs morpholexicales dans trois styles d'interlangue française. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 32, 4, 275-300.
(1995) Le débit dans l'interlangue française: analyse de la variation interstylistique et interindividuelle. Cahiers de l'AFLS, 1, 2, 29-42.
(1995) L'immersion scolaire des francophones à l'école flamande représente-t-elle le sacrifice de la langue maternelle et de la culture française ? Le langage et l'homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage, 30, 1, 5-14.
(1995) Style-shifting in oral interlanguage: Quantification and definition. In L. Eubank, L. Selinker & M. Sharwood Smith (eds.), The Current State of Interlanguage. Amsterdam- New York: John Benjamins, 231-238.
(1995) Variation dans la longueur moyenne d'énoncés dans l'interlangue française. In L. Beheydt (ed.), Linguistique appliquée dans les années '90, ABLA Papers, 16, 43-58.
(1995) Variation synchronique dans l'interlangue: analyse critique du Modèle du Caméléon de E. Tarone. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 109-110, 1-18.
(1996) Effet de l'intensité de l'instruction formelle sur l'interlangue orale française de locuteurs néerlandophones. In F. Myles & D. Engel (eds.), Teaching Grammar: Perspectives in Higher Education. London: Middlesex University Press, 122-134.
(1996) How to measure formality of speech ? A Model of Synchronic Variation. In K. Sajavaara & C. Fairweather (eds.), Approaches to second language acquisition. Jyväskylä Cross-Language Studies 17, Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 119-133.
(1996) Les phénomènes d'hésitation dans l'interlangue française: analyse de la variation interstylistique et interindividuelle. Rassegna Italiana da Linguistica Applicata, 28, 1, 87-103.
(1996) Variation dans la composition lexicale de styles oraux. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 34, 4, 261-282.
(1998) La langue influence-t-elle la pensée? Un état de la question. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 121-122, 27-39. (first author: K. Fouyer).
(1998) La naissance des premières grammaires françaises. Cahiers de l'AFLS, 4, 1, 15-23. (first author: H. Saw).
(1998) Lexical inventions: French interlanguage as L2 versus L3. Applied Linguistics, 19, 4, 471-490.
(1998) Speech rate variation in 2 oral styles of advanced French interlanguage. In V. Regan (ed.), Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition in Social Context. Dublin: University College Academic Press, 113-123.
(1998) The effect of gender of the choice of speech style. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 119-120, 9-25.
(1999) Extraversion: the unloved variable in applied linguistic research. Language Learning, 49, 3, 509-544. (second author: A. Furnham).
(1999) L'effet de l'extraversion sur la production du discours de bilingues. AILE. Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère. Numéro spécial, vol. 1, 111-126.
(1999) Le dérèglement du système de pensée français: l'angoisse secrète des puristes ? Réponse à Henriette Walter French: an accommodating language ? Current Issues in Language and Society, 6, 3 & 4, 227-230. Is it the corruption of French thought processes that purists fear ? A response to Henriette Walter. Current Issues in Language and Society, 6, 3 & 4, 231-234.
(1999) Les jeunes ne connaissent-ils plus leur langue maternelle ? Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics 13, 2, 77-84. (first author: K. Fouyer).
(1999) Word order variation in interrogative structures of native and non-native French. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 123-124, 161-180.
(2000) Invasion de la banalité dans les manuels de français en Flandre. In J. Eichperger (ed.), Roeland, dynamiek en talen voor de jeugd. Gent: vzw Roeland, 209-211. (first author: J. Dewaele)
(2000) Néerlandophones - Francophones: liberté, égalité, fraternité ? In Labeau, E (éd.), France-Belgique: des frères ennemis de la langue de chez nous?, Québec : Centre International de Recherche en Aménagement linguistique de l'Université de Laval, 39-47.
(2000) Personality and Speech Production: A pilot study of second language learners. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 355-365. (second author: A. Furnham).
(2000) Quantifier le style dans la conversation. Une analyse de la variation sociolinguistique. Le Langage et l'Homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage, 25, 4, 233-249.
(2000) Relating gender errors to morphosyntactic and lexical systems in advanced French interlanguage. Studia Linguistica, 54, 2, 212-224. (second author: Daniel Véronique)
(2000) Saisir l'insaisissable ? Les mesures de longueur d'énoncés en linguistique appliquée. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 1, 31-47.
(2000) Structures interrogatives dans le discours francais oral d'apprenants et de locuteurs natifs. In A. Englebert, M. Pierrard, L. Rosier & D. Van Raemdonck (eds.), Actes du XXIIe Congrès international de Linguistique et de Philologie romanes, vol. IX, Berlin : Niemeyer, 69-76.
(2000) Three years old and three first languages. Bilingual Family Newsletter, 17, 2, 4-5.
(2001) Activation or inhibition ? The interaction of L1, L2 and L3 on the language mode continuum. In U. Jessner, B. Hufeisen & J. Cenoz (eds.), Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition: Psycholinguistic perspectives. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 69-89.
(2001) Conversations trilingues (arabe, français, anglais) entre mère et fille: un saute-mouton référentiel ? In C. Charnet (ed.), Communications référentielles et processus référentiels Montpellier: Publications de Praxiling-Université Paul-Valéry, 193-214. (second author: M. Edwards).
(2001) Gender assignment and gender agreement in advanced French Interlanguage: a cross-sectional study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4, 3, 275-297. (second author: Daniel Véronique).
(2001) Interpreting the maxim of quantity: interindividual and situational variation in discourse styles of non-native speakers. In E. Németh (ed.), Cognition in Language Use: Selected Papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 1. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 85-99.
(2001) La statistique comme instrument heuristique en linguistique. Le Langage et l'Homme. Recherches pluridisciplinaires sur le langage, 36, 1, 131-142.
(2001) Stéréotype à l'épreuve: le discours oral des femmes est-il plus émotionnel et déictique que celui des hommes ?. In K. Beeching, C. Bauvois & N. Armstrong (eds.), La langue française au féminin. Paris: l'Harmattan, 123-147.
(2001) The use of colloquial words in advanced French interlanguage. In S. Foster-Cohen & A. Nizegorodcew (eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 51-68. (second author: V. Regan)
(2001) Une distinction mesurable: corpus oraux et écrits sur le continuum de la deixis. Journal of French Language Studies, 11, 179-199.
(2002) Applaudie et contestée: l'oeuvre sociolinguistique d'Otto Jespersen. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics, 137-138, 1-18. (second author: G. Brun).
(2002) Emotion vocabulary in interlanguage. Language Learning, 52, 2, 265-324. (second author: Aneta Pavlenko).
(2002) Individual differences in L2 fluency: The effect of neurobiological correlates. In V. Cook (ed.), Portraits of the L2 user. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 219-250.
(2002) Introduction. In J.-M. Dewaele, A. Housen & L. Wei (eds.), Bilingualism: Basic Principles and Beyond. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1-9. (second and third authors: A. Housen & L. Wei).
(2002) L'acquisition de la compétence sociopragmatique en langue étrangère. Revue Française de linguistique appliquée, 7, 2, 129-143. (second author: N. Wourm).
(2002) Maîtriser la norme sociolinguistique en interlangue française: le cas de l'omission variable de 'ne'. Journal of French Language Studies, 12, 2, 123-148. (second author: Vera Regan).
(2002) Préface. AILE. Numéro spécial, 17, 3-5. (first author: R. Mougeon).
(2002) Psychological and sociodemographic correlates of communicative anxiety in L2 and L3 production. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 6, 1, 23-39.
(2002) Research on expressing emotions in multiple languages. The Bilingual Family Newsletter 19, 1, 3. (second author: Aneta Pavlenko).
(2002) The computational model of L2 acquisition and its implications for second language instruction. Revue Internationale en Sciences du Langage. Marges Linguistiques, 4, 175-187. (http://www.marges-linguistiques.com) (first author: R. Foth).
(2002) The effect of multilingualism and socio-situational factors on communicative anxiety of mature language learners. In J. Ytsma & M. Hooghiemstra (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trilingualism (CD Rom).
(2002) Three perspectives on first language acquisition. Interface. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 17, 1, 3-11. (first author: P. Coles).
(2002) Using sociostylistic variants in advanced French IL: the case of nous/on. In S. Foster-Cohen, T. Ruthenberg, M.L. Poschen (eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 205-226.
(2002) Variation in the contextuality of language: An empirical measure. In B. Edmonds & V. Akman (eds.), Context in Context. Special issue Foundations of Science 7, 3, 293-340. (first author: F. Heylighen).
(2002) Variation, chaos et système en interlangue française. AILE. Numéro spécial 17, 143-167.
(2003) Bilingual Episodic Memory: An Introduction. International Journal of Bilingualism, 7, 3, 221-233. (first author: B. Schrauf, second author: A. Pavlenko).
(2003) Compte rendu – hommage : l'oeuvre de Larry Selinker. Revue LINX 49, 153-159. (commissioned article).
(2003) Introduction: Opportunities and challenges of bilingualism. In L. Wei, J.-M. Dewaele, & A. Housen (eds.), Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 1-12. (first and third authors: L. Wei & A. Housen).
(2003) Productivity and lexical diversity in native and non-native speech: A study of cross-cultural effects. In V. Cook (ed.), The effects of the second language on the first. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 120-141. (second author: A. Pavlenko)
(2003/2004) Enquête sur le choix (rapporté) du pronom d’allocution en français natif et non-natif. Second-Person Pronouns and Forms of Address in Contemporary European Languages. Special issue of Franco-British Studies 33/34: 46-54.
(2004) Introduction to the Special Issue. Estudios de Sociolingüística 5, 1, 1-8 (second author: A. Pavlenko).
(2004) Blistering Barnacles! What language do multilinguals swear in?! Estudios de Sociolingüística, 5, 1, 83-106.
(2004) Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary: The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors. In P. Bogaards & B. Laufer (eds.) Learning Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, Acquisition and Testing. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 127-153.
(2004) Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25, 2-3, 93. (first author: A. Pavlenko).
(2004) The emotional force of swearwords and taboo words in the speech of multilinguals. Special issue of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 25, 2-3, 204-222.
(2004) Perceived language dominance and language preference for emotional speech: The implications for attrition research. In Schmid, M.S.& Köpke, B., Kejser, M. & Weilemar, L. (eds.) First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 81-104.
(2004) Preface. International Review of Applied Linguistics , 42, 4, 295-301. (first author: R. Mougeon)
(2004) Vous or tu ? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope. International Review of Applied Linguistics , 42 (4), 383-402.
(2004) Retention or omission of the 'ne' in advanced French IL: the variable effect of extralinguistic factors. In V. Regan & R. Bayley (eds.) Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition , Special issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics , 8 (3), 433-450.
(2004) Slaying the dragon of fanaticism through enlightenment. Teaching Languages and Cultures in a Post-9/11 World: an European Perspective” For the column “Perspectives” in a Special issue of The Modern Language Journal, 88, 4, 663-666. (commissioned contribution).
(2004) Tense/aspect, verb meaning and perception of emotional intensity by native and non-native users of English. In S. Foster-Cohen, M. Sharwood Smith, A. Sorace & M. Ota (eds.), EUROSLA Yearbook 4 . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 231-252. (second author: M. Edwards).
(2004) The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: An overview. In F. Myles & R. Towell (eds.), The acquisition of French as a second language . Special issue of Journal of French Language Studies , 14, 301-319.
(2005) “Dites-moi tu”?! La perception de la difficulté du système des pronoms d’adresse en français. In M. Faraco (ed.), Regards croisés sur la classe de langue : Pratiques, méthodes et théories. Publications de l'Université de Provence. (second author : Gaëlle Planchenault).
(2005) Investigating the psychological and the emotional dimensions in instructed language learning: Obstacles and possibilities. In L. Ortega (ed.) Reconceptualizing research on L2 learning across education contexts , Special issue of The Modern Language Journal 89, 3, 367-380.
(2005) Sociodemographic, psychological and politico-cultural correlates in Flemish students' attitudes toward French and English. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development , 26, 2, 118-137.
(2005) The effect of type of acquisition context on perception and self-reported use of swearwords in the L2, L3, L4 and L5. In A. Housen & M. Pierrard (eds.), Investigations in Instructed Second Language Acquisition . Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, pp. 531-559.
(2005) Preface. In J.-M. Dewaele (ed.), Focus on French as a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. vi-x.
(2005) The role of psycholinguistic factors in the development of fluency amongst advanced learners of French. (first author: R. Towell). In J.-M. Dewaele (ed.), Focus on French as a Foreign Language: Multidisciplinary Approaches . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. 210-239.
(to appear) Expressing anger in multiple languages. In A. Pavlenko (ed.) Languages and emotions of multilingual speakers . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
(to appear) Interindividual variation in self-perceived oral communicative competence of English L2 users. In E. Alcón Soler and M. P. Safont Jordà (eds.), The Intercultural speaker. Using and acquiring English in the foreign language classroom .
Articles and chapters in non-refereed journals
(1998) Le cerveau: moteur linguistique. La Chouette, 29, 55-65.
(1999) Tu me regardes ? L'effet du regard dans la production linguistique. La Chouette 30, 58-66.
(1999) Drie jaar oud en drietalig: een case-studie. Prolingua, 18, 3-4.
(2000) Capacity matters. Short-term memory and multilingual speech production, The Linguist, 39, 1, 8-10. (reprinted in the Quarterly Newsletter of the Society of English-Native-Speaking Editors in the Netherlands, October 2000).
(2000) Grote mond in een vreemde taal. Natuur en Techniek, 68, 5, 50-55. (second author: A. Furnham).
(2000) 'Thank God, I'm a woman'. Mannentaal vrouwentaal. Natuur en Techniek, 68, 10, 54-59.
(2000) Trilingual first language acquisition: exploration of a linguistic miracle. La Chouette 31, 77-86. Also at: La Chouette
(2001) L'apport de la théorie du Chaos à la linguistique appliquée. La Chouette, 32. La Chouette
(2001) Tongue-tied in a foreign language. The Linguist, 40, 5, 153-155.
(2002) Talking about emotions. The Linguist, 41, 2, 56-57. (second author: A. Pavlenko).
(2002) Vouvoiement et tutoiement: une approche sociolinguistique et interactionnelle. La Chouette, 33, 1-14. La Chouette
Book Reviews
33 published, 7 to appear.