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Kerry Lappin-Fortin
Professor Emerita
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Events

Awards:

Distinguished Teacher Award

University of Waterloo

2009

 

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award

Ontario Undergraduate Students' Alliance

2009

 

Doctoral Fellowship

Commission Permanente Québec-Ontario

1978-1981

Research Activity:

Books

 

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, La traduction : un pont de départ, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, August 2017, 286p. (with electronic Cahier du maître, 71 p.).

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, Traduire? Avec plaisir!  Cours de traduction avancé, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., 2010, 172 p. (with electronic Cahier du maître, 82 p.)

 

 

Journal Articles

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, "Investigating L1 Lay Assessments of L2 French Pronunciation", Journal of Second Language Pronunciation.  [in press]      

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, "Traduire le Black English ("C’est comme ça des fois ")", Meta : journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators’ Journal. Vol. 61 (2), 2016. p. 459-478.

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, “Talking Translation: An Interview with Lawrence Hill.” Canadian Literature, Issue 223 (Winter 2015), p. 100-117.

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, “Comparing Written Competency in Core French and French Immersion Graduates,” Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol.17 (2), 2014, p. 91-112.

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, “Gender Assignment in Core French and French Immersion Graduates – J’aime la français, mais pas le grammaire,” The French Review, Vol. 88 (2), 2014, p. 121-142.

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, B. J. Rye, "The Use of Pre-/Post-test and Self-assessment Tools in a French Pronunciation Course," Foreign Language Annals, Vol. 47 (2), 2014, p. 300-320.

 

 

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, "Les quatre voix du duo Condé-Philcox," The French Review, Vol. 86 (3), 2013, p. 535-546.

 

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, Cynthia Tremblay, "Nos débutants apprennent-ils aussi bien en ligne qu’en classe?," Faire vivre les identités: un parcours en francophonie, éd. J.-P. Cuq et P. Chardenet, Paris: Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2011, p. 183-190. [reprint]

 

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, Cynthia Tremblay, "Nos débutants apprennent-ils aussi bien en ligne qu’en classe?," Dialogues et cultures, Numéro 55, décembre 2009, Actes du XIIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF, Tome II, Enjeux technologiques, p. 1003-1018.

 

 

Journal Articles [non-refereed]

 

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, "Traduire un poète irlandais," Fiche pédagogique, Le français dans le monde, no. 389, sept.-oct. 2013, p. 75-76.

 

Lappin-Fortin, Kerry, "Poésie et pastiche - De la tête aux pieds," Fiche pédagogique, Le français dans le monde, no. 366, nov.-déc. 2009, p. 86.

 

 

 

Presentations at Conferences

 

 

2015    "Mieux s'écouter pour mieux prononcer", 88th Annual AATF Convention (American Association of Teachers of French), Saguenay (QC), July 8-11, 2015.

2014    “Enseigner le genre grammatical," 87th Annual AATF Convention (American Association of Teachers of French), New Orleans (LA), July 19-22, 2014.

2014    “Self-assessment in a French pronunciation course," Congress 2014, Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, Brock University (ON), May 26-28, 2014.

2013    “Gender assignment in Core French and French Immersion Graduates – J’aime la français, mais pas le grammaire,” Congress 2013, Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Victoria (B.C.), June 3-5, 2013. [Paper presented with Tara Hargrave (UW).]

 

 

2012    "Comparing written competency in our Core French and French Immersion Graduates," Congress 2012, Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo (Ontario), May 28-31, 2012. [Paper presented with Cynthia Tremblay (UW).]

 

 

2012     "Traduire la cuisine condéenne," (Panel chair: Caribbean Fusions) 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Colloque "Traversées, frictions, fusions / Crossings, Frictions, Fusions," California State University, Long Beach (California), March 28-31, 2012.

 

 

2011   "Le duo Condé-Philcox: quatre voix," 78e Congrès ACFAS, Colloque "Traduire à quatre mains," Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Québec), May 11-12, 2011.

 

 

2010    "Les calques syntaxiques: fléau du français d’immersion française?," 77e Congrès ACFAS, Colloque "Les français d’ici," Université de Montréal, Montréal (Québec), May 12-14, 2010.

 

 

2008    "Nos débutants apprennent-ils aussi bien en ligne qu’en classe?," 12th World Conference of the Fédération internationale des professeurs du français (FIPF), Québec (Québec), July 2008. [Paper presented with Cynthia Tremblay (UW).]

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