Biographie

 SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS


- Teaching French Literature ;


- Teaching Francophone Literature ;


- Teaching French as a Foreign Language ;


- Teaching business French ;


- Teaching image analysis and stylistics ;


- Certified IB, DELF and AP teacher ;


 

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

- Teaching in XVIII, XIX and XX centuries French Literature (Voltaire, D’Holbach, Diderot, Montesquieu, Maupassant, Balzac, Zola, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Le Clézio) and culture.


- Teaching translated literature in French (Sophocles, Tennessee Williams, Scott-Fitzgerald, Tourgueniev).


- Teaching francophone literature (Senghor, Laye, Ben Jelloun, Marzouki, Belkhodja, Ba).


- Successfully preparing students for DELF and DALF.


- Successfully preparing students for the French Baccalaureate in literature.


- Successfully preparing students for the International Baccalaureate, A Standard Level.


- Mentoring extended essays in French Literature.


- Possessing strong interpersonal, communication and computer skills.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

French, English, Bulgarian, Arabic (Tunisian), Italian

PROFESSIONNAL BACKGROUND

EDUCATION


Degrees :

Ph.D in French didactics at ISEFC – University of Tunis (expected).


Master in French didactics at ISEFC-Tunis and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay – Saint – Cloud, France (2001).


B.A. with major in French, University of Tunis (1995).

 

Courses :

Written expression, Lecture, Language, Civilization, Syntax, Linguistics, Art history, Literature of the Middle Ages, Seventeenth Century Literature, Eighteen Century Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics and Semantics, Introduction to Didactics, Discipline Consolidation, Theory of Knowledge, Evaluation, Fields and Subjects of Didactics, Didactics of Written Production, Didactics of Literature, Didactics of Grammar, Didactics of Civilization Integrating Authentic Audiovisual Documents in French Courses, French Youth Cultures, British and American literature, Italian Language, Computers sciences.

 

Other accreditations :

 

Certification in teaching and evaluating DELF students from the French Ministry of Education (2013)

Certification from the Illinois State Board of Education (2008).

Certification in AP French and AP French Literature (2007).

 

 

Academic achievements :

Full scholarship for the undergraduate studies.

Award for the best academic achievement during the undergraduate studies.

Grant from the Tunisian Ministry of the Higher Education and the French Ecole Normale Supérieure for the achievement of the Master degree thesis.

 

PH.D DISSERTATION

Title : Teaching a pragmatic and stylistic approach of the advertising image to non-specialists in a context of French as a Second Language.

Director : Prof. Samir Marzouki.

Advisor : Prof. Moncef Khemiri.

 

MASTER DEGREE DISSERTATION

Title : Didactics of writing expression with specific objectives: case of teaching the techniques of writing short administrative documents to INTES students of the section GES

Director : Prof. Henri Besse

Advisor : Prof. Mokhtar Sahnoun

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

March 2017 to March 2020

 

French Content Advisory Committee for the Illinois Licensure Testing System

 

Selecting and approving training modules and test topics for the certification of French teachers in the State of Illinois

 

 

February 2017 to March 2020

 

Cooperating Trainer at the Mission Laique Francaise

 

Training French teachers to create and apply innovating strategies to teach language and literature 

 

 

September 2007 to present

French-American School of Chicago (EFAC)

Teaching French Literature and preparing students for SAT, Advanced Placement in Language and Literature exams, the French and the International Baccalaureate (A1 Standard)

Teaching French as a Foreign Language and preparing students for DELF exams.

 

 

September 2000 to June 2007 

University of Manouba, Tunisia 

Assistant professor, teaching literature, grammar and linguistics to undergraduate students.



 

September 2000 to June 2007 

French Cooperation Institute, Tunis

Teaching French as a foreign language to adult students from different countries. The course included also French and Francophone history, political orientations and cinema.  

 

 

 

September 1998 to June 2000

 

Bourguiba Institute of Foreign Languages, Tunisia

 

Teaching French as a foreign language to adult students.

 

 


September 1997 to June 2007 

Higher Institute of Labor and Social Sciences, Tunisia

 

Assistant professor, teaching techniques of expression including rhetoric, image analysis and business language skills.

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



 April 2022 to present 

Radio Chicago Internationale

 

Hosting, producing and editing various shows in French and English, including hourly news.


August 2017 to January 2020 

Bilingual Drama Group Frog Prov

 

Participation as an actor in a monthly improv show in French and English at Second City and The IO Theater.

 


 

March 2010 to present 

Youth Connected By Sounds

 

Writing, producing and editing radio-dramas with mentored students for YCBS, a European radio station based in Berlin, Germany.

 

 

March 2000 to October 2012 

Tunis Hebdo

 

Working as a journalist in the cultural and computer pages in Tunis Hebdo, a Tunisian independent weekly edition in French language.

 

September 1997 to August 2011 

Atelier Théâtre de Tunis, Tunisia

 

Participation as an actor in the following plays :

Mohamed Marzouki, Jézia, l’Hilalienne (a radio drama, produced by Mohamed Louzir)

Alberto Canova, Moi, Bertold Brecht (produced by Alberto Canova)

Friedrich Durrenmatt,  La visite de la vieille dame (produced by Alberto Canova)

 

September 1993 to March 1996

 

Le Petit Théâtre de Tunis

 

Participation as an actor to the following plays :

“Le bal des voleurs” (Jean Anouilh)

“Mon Isménie” (Eugène Labiche)

“La cantatrice chauve” (Eugène Ionesco)

 

March 1982 to September 1989 

Bulgarian National Broadcast Corporation

 

Dubbing and recording of drama plays adapted for the radio.

 


 

TEACHING INTERESTS

XVII, XVIII, XIX and XX centuries’ literature

French and Francophone cultures

Grammar

Written expression

French as a Foreign Language

Conversation