sarah berthaud 

PhD Student
Email:  s.berthaud1nuigalway.ie

Background and Qualifications

My research is concerned with adult second language acquisition, teaching and learning methodologies, translation methodologies and teaching.

More specifically, I am interested in understanding how verbal constraints influence event template comprehension and sentence production, both in first and second language in the case of French and English. Improved understanding of how the constraints work would allow better translation and second language teaching methodologies could be devised and applied.

Prior to beginning this PhD, I completed a B.A. (Hons.) in English and Teaching French as a Foreign Language in Université Nancy II and Université de Bourgogne, Dijon. I then went on to graduate from an M.A. in Advanced Language Skills in the National University of Ireland, Galway, for which I studied translation and interpretation. The dissertation I wrote for the M. A. was entitled Translation of Verbal Structures in Second Language Learners of French and English: a Comparative Study.

Publications and Posters

Book Chapter

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2011). L2 acquisition of verbal constructions: expressing motion in L2 French and English. In M. Bouveret & D. Legallois (Eds.), French constructions in discourse and development. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Manuscript currently under revision). 

Conference Proceedings

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Acquisition of Verbs and Argument Structures in Second Language: Implications for organisation of Multilingual Mental Lexicon. In Proceedings of the 21st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2010), Galway, Ireland. 

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C. & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics. 

Conference Presentations

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Verbal constraints in French and English: implications for translation, learning and teaching. The First International Language Conference, Galway, Ireland, December 2010. 

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Acquisition of verbs and argument structures in second language: Implications for the multilingual mental lexicon. The 21st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2010), Galway, Ireland, August – September 2010. 

Editorials

Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C. & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics. 

Poster Presentations

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2010). Constraining effect of animacy on sentence production in second language. The Sixth International Workshop on Language Production, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2010. 

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. Fechner Day, International Society for Psychophysics: 25th Annual Meeting, Galway, Ireland, October 2009. 

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2008). Syntactic frames: production and translation for English and French speakers. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 2008.

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