Founded in 1961 and now integrated into a new public institution of higher education and research (since January 2022), Nantes University is a major pole of higher education and research in the Western France.
Nantes U is, thanks to the teaching in all fields of knowledge (arts, letters, philosophy, history), one of the great French multidisciplinary universities. Its interdisciplinary teaching and scientific cooperation are two factors of innovation and success.
Marie-Ange Dat
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Marie-Ange Dat is an associate professor in Language Sciences at Nantes University in France: she teaches applied linguistics at the university teachers training Institute, and she is a member of the Nantes linguistics laboratory (LLING). First French as a second language teacher, then Italian elementary school teacher, she is interested in the acquisition of L2 spontaneous oral by beginner speakers in a guided environment.
Her research concerns the entire school context, from elementary to secondary school, where her current research projects focus more specifically on the issues of automation, fluency and syntactic precision.
David Macfarlane
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From the beginning of his career, David Macfarlane has worked in the field of second language education, both in Canada and abroad. Learning specialist for many years with the New Brunswick Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, he was heavily involved in piloting the Intensive French program, training teachers in the NLA and participated in the development of a number of teaching units for the Post-Intensive French program. Since retirement, he has acted as an independent consultant and facilitates workshops across the country and in France, specialising in the Neurolinguistic Approach and second-language oral proficiency evaluation. He was also involved in the revitalization efforts for Indigenous languages in New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories (curriculum development and teacher training).
