Anne Violin-Wigent
- (elle/la; she/her)
- violinwi@msu.edu
- Wells Hall B352
- Associate Professor of French, Director of the Basic Language Instruction Program
- Romance and Classical Studies
Biography
Anne Violin-Wigent is an Associate professor of French. Her previous research analyzed regional variations of the French language in France and the leveling effect of Standard French on regional accents and vocabulary. Her research currently focuses on the effectiveness of explicit instruction in the acquisition of a second language and, in particular, on the development of pronunciation. She is currently working on the second edition of Sons et Sens, La prononciation du francais en contexte, a French pronunciation textbook written in collaboration with Jessica Miller and Frédérique Grim and published by Georgetown University Press in 2013. She has served as the French Language Director and Assistant to the Language Director for many years and has taught a wide variety of classes, including History of the French language, Evolution of French Gastronomy, Teaching Methods, and French linguistics and phonetics to name but a few. She is also actively involved in teacher professional development, with the Michigan World Language Association (President in 2011) and in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.Degree: PhD, 2001, Purdue UniversityResearch Interest: French linguistics (regional French) and Pedagogy
Works
Textbooks
- Sons et sens: La Prononciation du français en contexte. First author with Jessica Miller and Frédérique Grim. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 2013.
- Oui je peux ! 101 à 201. First author with Matt Kanefsky. OER.
- Tu pourrais ? 202. First author with Matt Kanefsky. OER.
Recent Scholarly Presentations
- Work à la carte Through Personalized Learning Assignments. First presenter with Matt Kanefsky. Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education. University of Minnesota. Virtual conference. October 2025.
- Pronunciation teaching and the acquisition of French past tenses. First presenter with Viviane Ruellot. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. October 2025.
- Harnessing rationales for world language study to support student motivation: A practice-based research collaboration. First author with Matt Coss and Carlo Cinaglia. American Association of Applied Linguistics. Denver, CO, March 2025.
- Exploring the relationship(s) between students’ perceptions of non-linguistic competency development and their enrollment decisions. Third author with Matt Coss and Carlo Cinaglia. Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education. University of Ohio. Virtual conference. October 2024.
Work in Progress
- Why do students give up learning a language? Analysis of attrition after one semester of language classes at the university level.
- The impact of small pronunciation activities on grammatical learning. Examples from articles and past tenses in French.
Gallery
College of Arts & Letters News
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