Dr. Peters is Senior Lecturer in French studies and convenor of the European Languages and Cultures unit in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW, Sydney. He received his Master in Romance Philology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and his PhD in French linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. Before his arrival at UNSW, Sydney, in 2005, he taught for 8 years in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and held research positions at the University of Brussels Phonetic Institute and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Geneva. His research interests include pedagogical approaches to the grammar of French (in collaboration with C. Laenzlinger, University of Geneva), the syntax of French, the teaching of French, and second language acquisition of French.
Some representative publications:
On pedagogical approaches to the grammar of French:
- Laenzlinger C; Peters H, 2016, Des savoirs linguistiques aux savoirs scolaires. L'accès à la grammaire par le lexique, Editions Lambert-Lucas, Limoges, France.
- Laenzlinger C; Peters H; Moeschler J, 2012, Didactique du lexique et enseignement de la grammaire, in Kamber A, Skupien-Dekens C (eds.) Recherches récentes en FLE (pp. 147-173. Peter Lang (Series: Mehrsprachigkeit in Europa/Multilingualism in Europe - Volume 6), Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien.
On second language acquisition of French:
- Peters H, 2019, 'Asymmetric self-repair in gender attribution', in Degand L; Gilquin G; Meurant L; Simon AC (eds.), Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties, edn. Corpora and Language in Use, Presses universitaires de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 261 - 281.
- Peters H, 2017, 'Comportements d'autocorrection et d'hésitation manifestés par les apprenants de FLE au cours de conversations orales spontanées', Bulletin VALS-ASLA, No Spécial, Tome 2, pp. 133 - 145.
- Peters H, 2017, The UWI French L2 Corpus. SLA-Bank Talkbank doi:10.21415/T5G975.
On the syntax of French:
- Péters H, 2014, 'The morpho-syntactic status of ne and its effect on the syntax of imperative sentences', Journal of French Language Studies, vol. 24, pp. 49 - 81.
On teaching French:
- Peters H, 2018, 'Parcours d'enseignement de l'argumentation par le pastiche', In Online proceedings of the 2018 FATFA/NAFT conference, The university of Sydney, Sydney, pdf. presented at the Congrès de la Fédération des Associations de Professeurs de Français en Australie/New South Wales Association of French Teachers, Sydney, 27 September 2018 - 30 September 2018.
- Peters H; Tabensky A, 2011, 'Comment faire entrer le monde francophone dans la salle de classe', In Meunier J; Atherton B; Grauby F; Royer M (eds.), Le français et la diversité francophone en Asie-Pacifique. Actes du 2ème Congrès de la CAP - FIPF Sydney 2010 (pp. 231 - 241), Gerflint, Sydney.
Older articles on French poetry:
- Peters H, 1997, 'De part en part, mordent les vers des maladies. Analyse métrique d'un poème de Verhaeren', Études Francophones, 12(2), 113-126.
- Peters H, 1992, Comparaison entre Bruges-la-Morte et Les Gommes. Écritures de la Modernité', Présence Francophone, 41, 74-96.