Dr Robin Adamson

BA DipEd BPhil PhD Officier des palmes académiques

Honorary Research Fellow (French Studies)

73 Fairway, Room 01
Ph : +61 (8) 6488 2190
Fax: +61 (8) 6488 1182
e-mail: radamson@eftel.com.au

Qualifications

• 1958 BA University of Queensland

• 1959 DipEd, University of Queensland

• 1973 BPhil, St Andrews, for a thesis entitled "Style in L'Étranger by Albert Camus" (computer-assisted stylistics)

• 1984 PhD, Edinburgh, for a thesis entitled "La poésie résistante: Lexis, semantics and syntax in the war poetry of Paul Éluard" (computer-assisted stylistics)

Career Outline

• 1965-67 Senior Tutor in French, University of Western Australia

• 1968-99 Lecturer then Senior Lecturer (1991) in French, University of Dundee

• 1973-99 Founding member of Scottish Universities French Language Project (later Scottish Applied French Language Association)

• 1988-99 Director, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Dundee

• 1990 Decorated by the French Government for services to the French
  language and to Franco-British relations: Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques

• 1991 Association of Commonwealth Universities Senior Travelling Fellowship to Australia, 1991-1992

• 1999- 2001 Consultant and Research Fellow: SCOTLANG Project (SHEFC Research Development competition, 1999), University of Stirling

• 1999-2000 Consultant and Advisor to HM Chief Inspector for Modern Languages (Scotland) Panel on Advanced Higher Examination

• 2000 Visiting Professor, Università Bocconi, Milan

• 2001- Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia

Research Interests

My research has been in contemporary French language, discourse analysis, second language acquisition, communicative language teaching and learning and the history and defence of French.

Currently I am working on the influence of English on four of the major languages of Europe: French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Selected Publications

• Adamson, R. et al. (1980; 2nd ed. 1968; 3rd ed. 1999) Le français en faculté, Hodder and Stoughton.

• Adamson, R. et al. (1988) En fin de compte ..., Cours communicatif de français: niveau licence, Edward Arnold (Hodder & Stoughton). Awarded the Rowntree Macintosh Partnership Award for Education and Industry (December, 1990)

• Adamson, R. & Edelston, B.A.S. (1998; 2nd ed. 2003) Teach Yourself French, Hodder and Stoughton.

• Adamson R. et al. (1999) The Nuffield French for Scientists Course, Hodder and Stoughton.

• Adamson, R. (2001) “European Law systems and the Internet. The language of judgements in Italian, French and English in the Languages for Special Purposes classroom.” Occasional Papers, Università Bocconi, Milan.

• Adamson, R. (2007) The Defence of French. A language in crisis?
  Multilingual Matters.

• Morrow, C. (2008) Une abominable Epoque, Privat. (Preface by R. Adamson)

  (See : Full list of publications)