[Portrait] Sabrina Royer, Senior Lecturer in Language Sciences and Didactics of French as a Foreign Language

Through the collection of multimodal corpora (composed of videos of practice analyses), I study the way in which migrant learners appropriate different objects of knowledge to build their reflective practice. In recent years, I have studied more particularly the teaching-learning contexts of French for allophone migrant workers in occupations where the language component is highly internalized (occupations considered to be in tension).

What are your current scientific activities?

As a result of obtaining the Junior Valorisation Hauts-de-France AwardAn adaptation of my thesis will be published in 2023 by the Presses Universitaires du Septentrion under the title "Construire son apprentissage professionnel dans l'interaction : la part langagière intériorisée en action".

Why did you choose to work in academic research?

I came to the academic world after a professional experience in different professional and educational environments which made me wonder about the training environments and the importance of language training for allophones in professional integration. I became aware that research could improve the reflection of many aspects in the functioning of professional and educational integration. In my opinion, this environment allows one to work with many different actors, to always vary one's activity, and to combine both theoretical and pragmatic aspects.

What advice would you give to students who want to do research?

Learn about the research environment beforehand, join communities of young researchers, network to stay open to all possibilities and new encounters.

What object or image from your business best illustrates you?

I spend many hours observing learning practices. This is an image taken from a corpus I am working on forr the return to education of exiled workersHere, they learn to use the digital tool that determines academic success.