University of Angers (France)

Associate professor at the University of Angers in Teaching Languages and Applied Linguistics. She is interested in the impact of emotions on the process of second language learning among adolescent migrants in a school context, and more generally, among learners acquiring a L2 in both school and university settings. She led the research project NLA4AMi (Neurolinguistic Approach for Migrant Adolescents), which aims to measure the impact of this learning method. She is also leading the Erasmus+ Cooperative Partnerships project SLS4Teens (Second Language Learning for All Teenagers), scheduled to take place from 2023 to 2026 in four European countries.

Virginie Clavreul has been teaching French as a foreign language at CeLFE (Centre de Langue Française pour Etrangers) at the University of Angers since 2008, specialising in the didactics of French for university purposes (FOU), pronunciation correction using the verbo-tonal method (MVT) and the teaching/learning of FFL using the neurolinguistic approach (ANL).
Qualified to train ANL trainers, she has been training practitioners since 2019 as part of continuing education courses and as part of the Master 2 Pro FLAM programme. Since 2020, Virginie Clavreul has been an educational engineer at Lab'UA, the teaching support service at the University of Angers , and is currently supporting teams to roll out the skills-based approach (APC) in higher education.

After 5 years' experience abroad as a teacher of French as a Foreign Language, Laetitia Duron turned to coordinating incoming and outgoing international mobility, and for more than 10 years assisted numerous students and higher education staff with their mobility projects. She has also coordinated short international training programmes. 
In 2022, she joined the support service for setting up and monitoring European training and research projects at the University of Angers as a European training project monitoring officer. She has contributed to the financial and administrative management of various types of ERASMUS+ projects run by the University of Angers as coordinator or partner.

Hi, my name is Alexis Housset, 21 and currently a first-year student in my master’s degree in Language Education specialized in teaching French as a second language at the University of Angers. I have a Bachelor in Applied Foreign Languages (English and German) and have been learning Japanese as a hobby since 2017. During this year’s first semester, I took modern Greek classes and have since been interested in applying to the degree in partnership with the University of Athens. I lived in Japan for 9 months between October 2022 and July 2023. I work part-time as a home teacher of English.

Hello, my name is Clémentine Le Turc (26 y/o). I’m currently in the first year of my master in French as a Foreign Language. After I obtained my bachelor's degree in English, I did a gap year at Saint Paul (Minnesota, USA) where I worked in a primary French immersion school. French is my native language, I can also speak English, Spanish and I’m currently learning Japanese.

Yann Mur was a FLE trainer for migrants in a center for a year and after 3 years teaching English to young people who had dropped out of school for national education in the Paris suburbs, he worked for 10 years as a school and family education within a Parisian family of 3 children from kindergarten to high school. He provided the child and teenagers away from their parents, with living conditions enabling them to continue their academic, physical, psychological and emotional development. In professional retraining at Angers University in a Master, he wishes to use his experience working with children and young people with sensitive profiles to work on Erasmus-SLS4Teens project.

My name is Sun Siling, and I come from Southwest China, growing up in Guizhou Province. I am actually in my second year of language teaching at Angers University and am about to start my doctoral studies. My research will focus mainly on language classroom emotions and ANL (Neurolinguistic approach). From September to December 2023, I received ANL training at Angers University. I am currently teaching Chinese at two college schools in Angers. I have a C1 level in French and B1 level in English (in practicing).