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