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Introduction
Dana Di Pardo Leon-Henri is a researcher with ELLIADD (EA4661), currently teaching ESP at the University of Franche Comté - UFR SLHS, Besançon France. Her research is focused on ESP and LSP Language Teaching, Second Language Learning, Pedagogy, Didactics (with Artificial Intelligence and Robotics), Evaluation, Policy and Professional Skills development at the Higher Education level.
Additional affiliations
September 2013 - August 2015
IUT de Metz
Position
- Assistant Professor / Professeur certifié
Description
- Assistant Professor of English (DUT - Years 1/2, LP RH et LP Tourism) GEA International Coordinator (ERASMUS, DUETI) Internships and Studies abroad
September 2008 - August 2013
Position
- Instructor
Description
- Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Dep't d'anglais, Dep't LEA, PEARL (LANSAD), ERUDI (à distance) Faculté de Droit - LANSAD
September 2007 - August 2008
Position
- English Teacher / Chargé d'enseignement
Description
- Licence Professionnelle - Commerce Internationale
Education
September 2005 - November 2008
University of Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV
Field of study
- Foreign Applied Languages
Publications
Publications (19)
Foreign language teaching at the university level has taken on importance and value over the last decade due to global competition between institutions of higher education. For this reason, language educators are faced with the challenge of looking for innovative teaching methods, which not only stimulate and motivate their students while encouragi...
This research is part of the Artificial Intelligence Virtual Trainer (AI-VT) project which aims to create a system that can identify the user's skills from a text by means of machine learning. AI-VT is a case-based reasoning learning support system which can generate customized exercise lists that are adapted to user needs. To attain this outcome,...
This reflective essay presents the journal as a transnational networking instrument for TESOL teacher education at the in-service level and beyond. The introspective and retrospective dimensions associated with journaling can be beneficial on many different levels for in-service teachers. The diachronic analysis and re-examination of daily in-class...
Teaching communication skills through Literature: Encouraging Master’s level ESP students to speak up and move”, presents a task-based approach which endeavours to go beyond teaching verbal and non-verbal communication skills to non-specialist English language students of Literature at the Master’s level. The theoretical framework that forms the fo...
This volume is focused on the teaching and acquisition of language for special, professional or general purposes, as well as the needs and challenges associated with foreign language pedagogy in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or, more generally, Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). It presents innovative methodology and technology-integrated...
Teaching is said to be “the profession that eats its young” (Halford, 1998, p. 34). Unfortunately, this is often the reality and norm associated with many performance-based careers today. Experienced teachers would agree that performance in the classroom begins the very moment you step in front of a classroom full of students. Those teachers, who a...
In an increasingly global and mobile society, we are faced with greater cultural diversity both in our professional and private lives. As a result of this, more and more emphasis is being placed on the need for intercultural awareness, adaptation and respect for cultural differences. This is reflected in the updated (2013) Higher Education (HE) cur...
Course design and lesson planning are constants in the professional life of all instructors. Since the lesson plan is the instructor's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during class time, it should be the result of much contemplation and preparation. With regard to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or Eng...
Course design and lesson planning are constants in the professional life of all instructors. Since the lesson plan is the instructor's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during class time, it should be the result of much contemplation and preparation. With regard to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) or Eng...
Marsh (2012) asserts that the use of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in language teaching at the higher education level has the potential to encourage learners to acquire language in an immersion-style setting, since the integration of language and content provides a substantive basis for language teaching and learning (p. 135). The...
The aim of this article is to reflect on the notion of authenticity and the use of authentic materials in English for Specific Purposes (ESP). In the professional context, ESP requires the use of specialized and authentic documents. Within the framework of a professional language for specific purposes program, this article firstly proposes a defini...
Marsh (2012) asserts that the use of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in language teaching at the higher education level has the potential to encourage learners to
acquire language in an immersion-style setting, since the integration of language and content provides a substantive basis for language teaching and learning (p. 135). The...
