Dan Frost has a French doctorate in English for Specific Purposes and Teaching Theory. After reading Languages and Linguistics at York University, he taught English in Thailand and Sweden before settling in France, where he obtained a Masters in English Phonetics at the University of Provence. He worked as a secondary school teacher for two years in Le Havre, then as a professeur agrégé for ten years in the Computer Science Department at the IUT2 in Grenoble and he is currently a maître de conferences (associate professor) in the department of Foreign Languages at Grenoble Alpes University, France. He also works with trainee teachers, especially in the area of teaching pronunciation. His main research interests are teaching and assessing pronunciation & oral English, computer-mediated learning, and motivation. Interests apart from work include mountain sports, martial arts and gardening.

Location

Grenoble

Disciplines

• Languages
• Linguistics

Affiliation

Université Grenoble Alpes