Dana Di Pardo Leon-Henri

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• PhD
• Associate Professor/ Researching Lecturer at Marie and Louis Pasteur University

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...

Innovative Language Teaching Practices in Higher Education in a Post-COVID Era is a comprehensive and timely exploration of how the COVID-19 pandemic, technological advancements, and socio-economic shifts have dramatically altered the landscape of language teaching in higher education (HE). In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, educators aro...

This presentation examines the intersection of linguistics and didactics through creative fan fiction writing to enhance written skills for graduate-level non-specialist students in the Humanities. This method combines AI-powered tools with fan fiction writing to help students develop critical and analytical skills as they engage with their own lit...

Over the past two decades, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its advancements have significantly transformed society, profoundly impacting personal and professional realms. While technological innovations like the Internet and smartphone applications fostered mobility, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted profound reflections on life and work. This led to...

The contributors, who come from a variety of humanities and social sciences disciplines (educational sciences, language sciences, didactics, linguistics, sociology, sociolinguistics), offer the reader a fresh look at the development of the appropriation process, examining the ways in which it is taken into account and the issues at stake in a varie...

Kaouthar Ben Abdallah and Dana Di Pardo Léon-Henri Plurilingual language policies in France - tracing the historical evolution of the official linguistic and cultural language policies (Ministry of Education) for the integration of allophone pupils in the French school system (French Metropole)

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,...

Language didactics: Transitioning from the use of a dictogloss in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in Higer Education to use of a personalized AI-based virtual training system and a NAO (Softbank Robotics) humanoid robot.

The Teaching and Learning of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in Higher Education with the use of AI-VT and Robotics.

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...

Reflective Teaching Methods and Journal

In order to reduce the significant financial losses incurred by small and medium-sized European firms, mainly caused by the lack of personnel possessing the required plurilingual skills, two solutions are suggested: firstly, at the national level of each member state, the improvement of the internal efficiencies of foreign language educational poli...

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...

High-quality presentation skills are fundamental to a successful career in academia. For this reason, there is a genuine need for useful resources which are designed to explicitly assist non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences. English for Presentations at International Conferences is...

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...