Mireille Prodeau
personal profile
- 15 years experience of designing and managing courses for graduates and undergraduates within a Higher Education Institution.
- 25 years of researching second and foreign language acquisition and working in European research groups.
- 6 years of negotiating with various officials and representatives of the French Ministry of National Education to define new policy in terms of teacher training.
- 4 years running an exchange program between US, Canadian and French Parisian universities.
skills/achievements
Using the results of research in 2nd language acquisition in both tutored and untutored settings, I developed courses in teaching English as a second language for various L1 native speakers. I specifically concentrated my teaching on the French and English linguistic systems, nominal determination, tense and aspect, syntax. I also developed courses on contrasting the two systems, using the comparison with other linguistic systems such as the Spanish, Dutch and German ones. My knowledge in Spanish, Dutch and German enables me to analyze data in these languages besides French and English.
I developed web course material to supplement what is being done in the classroom.
I have been working in teacher training programs, (préparation to Agrégation, Capes and Cape, but also TESOL programs in the U.S.) and in a master’s program for future language teachers with a course on how to teach grammar.
Besides, I am interested in developing links between research on first and second language acquisition and the various means for testing levels of proficiency in language in Europe in order to better the training of future language teachers. This is why I present papers in European universities such as the Vrije Universitat Amsterdam, the Netherlands or the University of Lublin, Poland.
The approach I adopted in research is both influenced by psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics : I am very interested into the combination of cognition and social interaction, hence the continuous attempt to use different theoretical frameworks in the analysis of data I collected.
Above all, I collaborated with professors and researchers from many different Higher Education institutions in Europe and in North America and I strongly believe in collaboration to better my own activity in both research and teaching.
Career history
since 1997 | Senior Lecturer, English department, University of Paris VIII |
2010-2013 | Academic Director of the MICEFA (Mission Interuniversitaire de Coordination des Echanges Franco-Américains) exchange program, Paris. |
Fall semester 2009 | Guest Lecturer, Modern language and Literature department, California State University Fullerton, U.S.A. |
Spring semester 2009 | Lectures for the master’s students in plurilingualism and multiculturalism at the University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg |
Spring semester 2008 | Lectures for the master’s students in French at the University John Paul II, Lublin, Poland |
Spring semester 2000 : | Part time Lecturer, French department, University of Luton, United Kingdom |
1998-2000 : | Part-Time Lecturer, Linguistics department, University of Paris V |
1993-1997 : | Junior Lecturer, English department, University of Paris VIII |
1992-1993 : | Part-Time Lecturer, English department, University of Paris VIII |
1990-1991 | Research Associate, in the P-Moll Project directed by Professor N. Dittmar, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany |
1984-1990 | Mathematics Teacher, Académie de Versailles |
1983-1984 | Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, Department of Academic Skills, Hunter College, City University of New York, U.S.A. |
1981-1982 | Mathematics Teacher, Académie de Créteil |
1979-1981 | Mathematics Teacher, Lycée Charles de Gaulle, London, United Kingdom |
education
1996 | Doctorate in Applied Linguistics, University of Paris VIII |
1990 | Master’s degree in Linguistics, specialty 2nd Language Acquisition, joint degree by the University of Paris VIII and of Paris Ouest Nanterre. |
1988 | Bachelors degree in English, University of Paris VIII (maîtrise de linguistique) |
1979 | Post graduate certificate of Education in Mathematics, (Certificat d’aptitude au professorat dans l’enseignement secondaire) Paris |
1978 | Bachelors degree in Mathematics, University of Paris XI, (maîtrise de mathématiques) |
