Improving French Pronunciation is a method of corrective phonetics aimed at learners in French as a second language. This is a redesigned version of a classic of its type, long acclaimed by French language teachers. Since the 70s, several generations of students have used this method successfully to improve their French pronunciation. Three authors with a long experience in teaching French at the university level, Henriette Gezundhajt, Philippe Martin and Elsa Michaël, have joined with Monique Léon, with a mission to propose a total reshaping of the original edition, more technology oriented and more suited to language teaching in the twenty-first century.
Monique Léon, Full Professor
an eminent linguist and professor retired from the University of Toronto, is the original author of Improving French Pronunciation. With her husband Pierre Léon, she has widely opened the field of French phonetics, and is considered as one of the most important world specialists in applied phonetics and language teaching.
Henriette Gezundhajt, Ph.D.
is a specialist in Linguistics and Language teaching with technologies. Her reference websites Sur les sentiers de la linguistique and Le Connectigramme receive thousands of visitors each week. She is teaching Linguistics and French as a first and as a second language at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto.
Philippe Martin, Full Professor
is a renowned linguist and one of the world’s specialists in prosody. He has been teaching French and Linguistics as professor at the University of Toronto, and is currently head of the linguistic department at the Université Paris Diderot.He is also creator of WinPitch, the famous speech analysis software.
Elsa Michaël, M.A.
is an important contributor to the field of language acquisition and learning, and the co-author of the very popular Pause café and other FLS methods. As an expert, she has organised workshops and participated in numerous conferences in Canada as well as in the States. She is now teaching French at York University in Toronto.