In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues, different nations around the world interpret the messages differently – with some assuming […] … learn more→

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a teaching model that uses an additional language (often a foreign language) as a tool in the learning of other subjects, such as Biology or History. Through this methodology, students learn both the content of the subject and the language in which it is taught . This method is used differently […] … learn more→

How can I improve my English? This was a question frequently posed by my students in South Korea. My initial advice was straightforward – dedicate time and effort. However, both my students and I found this advice unsatisfying and overly simplistic. As a fellow language learner who had reached only an intermediate level of Korean […] … learn more→

In the global and interconnected world in which we live, the importance of learning foreign languages ​​is fully assumed, as it can help us improve our academic and professional career , enrich our personal lives and even have benefits for our brain . However, it is not so widespread to ensure access to these learnings for all citizens, regardless of their […] … learn more→

For almost twenty years, digital technology has often been described as one of the levers of the ecological transition. It allows, among other things, the establishment of carpooling platforms, teleworking, the optimization of the energy consumption of buildings or the monitoring of forest fires, etc. But digital uses also come with a certain number of […] … learn more→

Is this flirting? No. A romance? Neither. An imaginary love? No more. If the term “crush” entered dictionaries in 2023 , we often find ourselves in difficulty when it comes to finding a synonym. There is something vague about “crush”, “undefined in the definition” to use the words of Mehdi, one of the young people met for […] … learn more→

After a political series at the Ministry of National Education, where Gabriel Attal (5 months), Amélie Oudéa-Castera (26 days) and finally Nicole Belloubet (since February 8) joined the 11 ministers out of 29 who remained in office for less than 14 months since 1958, the pillar texts of the “clash of knowledge” were published on Sunday March […] … learn more→

The Covid-19 health crisis has highlighted certain deep deficiencies within French society, particularly highlighting two critical issues: the failures of our health system and digital exclusion affecting part of the population. The unprecedented rise of teleworking, online education and dematerialized administrative procedures has highlighted the inability of many individuals to equip themselves or master the necessary digital tools. This gap […] … learn more→

Have you visited Yew Nork? Does your stummy ache? What dog of bag food will we get? In case you’ve wondered what causes such speech errors or slips of the tongue, you might like to know that all speakers – of all ages and abilities – make them sometimes. Even people who use a sign language produce […] … learn more→

Inanimate objects, do you have a soul? asked the poet. If they have a soul, it is ours. This is what the semiologist Roland Barthes demonstrated in his Mythologies , published in 1957. The intellectual indeed studied there the objects and the popular rites which revealed the spirit of an era and the collective affects of the country, thus […] … learn more→