Isobel Heald

Assistant-Professor, University of Angers

Département d'Anglais,
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines,
11, Boulevard Lavoisier,
49045 Angers cedex 01, France.
Tel. +33-241 35 21 21.
Fax +33-241 35 21 19.

Experience

Prof. Isobel Heald is one of the most experienced teachers in Simplified English. She devised the course material and both organized and taught courses at Air France, Eurocopter, SITE and other companies involved in the use of technical writing for aeronautical purposes. She also participated in a research project on Simplified English at the University of Clermont-Ferrand.

Recent Publications

• Isobel Heald. "Rules and ambiguity in the syntactic description of a controlled language". In Values of Control - Programme Champ Culturel Anglophone, March 1997, Volume IV (Conference Proceedings). Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures Modernes et Contemporaines, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997.
• Isobel Heald. 1997. ``Exceptions to Rules in a Controlled Language''. Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the Programme du Champ Culturel Anglophone, March 14-15, 1997, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• Isobel Heald & Rémi Zajac. "Syntactic and Semantic Problems in the Use of a Controlled Language". Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications - CLAW 96, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, pp. 205-215, 1996.

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heald@bule.univ-angers.fr