Céline Meyran-Martinez

PhD fellow from French Ministry of Education
Assistant lecturer in Language Sciences
Fellowship: PhD grant of the French Ministry of education

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

PhD thesis in Language Sciences
Our thesis is part of an innovative project which integrate virtual reality into English learning among French students in professional high schools, in correspondence with German high school students. We are interested in the virtual reality’s effects on listening comprehension in English, in particular on lexical recognition, through cognitive engagement in the learning task. Also, we analyse the role of the teacher when using virtual reality tools in teaching tasks. To this end, we conducted quantitative (semi-controlled experiments) and qualitative cross-studies (observations, interviews, surveys) with the French teachers and students involved in the project (4 teachers and 84 students).

Master thesis in French as Foreign Language Learning and Didactics
We conducted a study among students from Spanish high school who learned French as Foreign Language in order to propose individualized listening strategies according to their learning style and strategies. To achieve it, we organized qualitative (interviews, logbook) and quantitative (surveys) studies with 13 students. We concluded the need to create individualized portfolio about the styles and learning strategies that every student would complete during his or her course, especially in a linguistic context where French as a Second Language teaching loses ground in school curricula every year.

EDUCATION

• Since September 2018
  PhD Candidate in Language Sciences
  University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, France
  PhD thesis: Virtual reality’s effect on listening comprehension in English
  Supervisor: Nathalie Spanghero-Gaillard
  Keywords: immersion, interactivity, virtual space, presence, acceptability of VR in learning and teaching, oral comprehension, learning vocabulary
  
  
• 2016-2018
  Master’s degree in French as Foreign Language Learning and Didactics
  University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès - France
  Master thesis: Case study - Styles and learning strategies of Spanish-speaking secondary school students as an option of French as a Foreign Language
  Supervisor: Olga Theophanous
  Keywords: learning styles, learning strategies, listening comprehension
  Internship memoir
  
  
• 2013-2014
  Bachelor’s degree in Languages Literatures and Foreign Civilizations in Spanish and French as a Foreign Language Learning Complement
  University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès - France
  
  
• 2011-2013
  Two-year university degree in Languages Literatures and Foreign Civilizations in Spanish
  University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès - France

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since September 2019 : teaching Language Sciences

• First-year bachelor degree in Language Sciences
  • Tools for the student in Languages Sciences (75 hours)
  • Methodology of University work applied to Language Sciences (100 hours)
  • What is the language? (25 hours)
• First-year master degree in French as Foreign Language Learning and Didactics
  
  • ICT tools and foreign languages (50 hours)

2016-2018 : teaching French as Foreign Language

• Middle and high school: youth learners – CEFRL A1-B1 (275 hours)
• Official Language School: adult learners – CEFRL B2-C2 (60 hours)
  
  

2013-2018 : teaching tennis

• Public leisure: any public, collective
• Public competition: youth public, individual and collective, personalized follow-up, individualized program, physical training