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Master's degree research project - participant recruitment

2 May 2024 (Pierre Meziere)

Calling secondary teachers of French! Your input would be appreciated in a research study being conducted for a Master’s dissertation in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Oxford.

The project aims to study how teachers of French perceive themselves and what relationship they maintain with the language, especially how labels such as ‘native speaker’ and ‘non-native speaker’ affect their personal and professional identities but also their teaching practices. 

This project is going to take place over two periods: an initial questionnaire followed by a round of interviews in French on a voluntary basis. 

The only requirements are:

  1. to be a teacher of French and
  2. to have experience in the UK (at secondary level preferably)

Link to the initial questionnaire.

Contact pierre.meziere@education.ox.ac.uk if you have any further questions.

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