INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION AND FRENCH LEARNERS
1.1. The status of English pronunciation teaching in France
1.1.1. The place of pronunciation in EFL classes
1.2. Phonological difficulties for French speakers
1.2.1. Segmental difficulties and recurrent errors
1.2.1.1 Consonants
1.2.1.2 Vowels
1.2.2. Suprasegmental difficulties and recurrent errors
1.2.2.1 Intonation
1.2.2.2 Lexical stress
1.2.2.3 Rhythm
1.2.3. French vs. English: syllable- and stress-timing theory
1.3. Conclusion
CHAPTER 2. PHONOLOGY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
2.1. Phonology and First Language Acquisition
2.1.1. Perception of English: from suprasegments to segments
2.1.2. Production of English segments and suprasegments
2.1.3. Conclusion: from L1 to L2
2.2. Phonology and L2 acquisition
2.2.1. Segmentals and L2 acquisition
2.2.2. Suprasegmentals and L2 acquisition
2.2.3. Comparative studies of L2 segmentals and suprasegmentals
2.3. Conclusion
CHAPTER 3. PILOT EXPERIMENT: OBJECTIVE AND PROCEDURE
3.1. Objective and hypothesis
3.2. Procedure
3.2.1. Subjects
3.2.2. Experimental procedure
3.2.2.1 Stimuli
3.2.2.2 Group formation
3.2.2.3 Pre-training recordings
3.2.2.4 Trainings
3.2.2.5 Post-training recordings
3.2.3. Listener-judges and rating procedure
3.3. Summary
CHAPTER 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1. Between-groups design
4.1.1. Hypotheses
4.1.2. Results
4.1.2.1 Overall post-training scores (Hypothesis 1)
4.1.2.2 Scores for the words (Hypothesis 2 n.1)
4.1.2.3 Scores for the phrases (Hypothesis 2 n.2)
4.2. Within-groups design
4.2.1. Hypotheses
4.2.2. Results
4.2.2.1 Evolution of Group A (Hypothesis 3 n.1)
4.2.2.2 Evolution of Group B (Hypothesis 3 n.2)
4.2.2.3 Overall evolutions of Group A vs. Group B (Hypothesis 4 n.1)
4.2.2.4 Evolutions of Group A vs. Group B for phrases and words (Hypothesis 4 n.2)
4.3. Discussion of the results
4.3.1. Between-groups: Hypotheses 1 and 2
4.3.2. Within-groups: Hypotheses 3 and 4
CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
5.1. Conclusion
5.2. Future work
REFERENCES
APPENDIX A: QUESTIONNAIRE OF SELECTION
APPENDIX B: FRENCH-SPEAKING SUBJECTS
APPENDIX C: STIMULI
APPENDIX D: INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RATING TASK
APPENDIX E: SCORES
NOTES
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