Linguistic diversity, diversity of knowledge

The PLIDAM team pays tribute to Thomas Szende, former director of the team and a leading figure in linguistics, language teaching and sociolinguistics, through a day of reflection on his areas of research. Around twenty papers will address language policies and multilingualism, language teaching, lexis and translation, literature and culture, as well as digital tools and mediation. They will cover a wide variety of languages and research contexts, reflecting the linguistic diversity of our laboratory.

Programme

9.00 am  Opening   Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau, George Alao, Michel Liu

9.15 am – 10.15 am        Session 1     Shahzaman Haque

Alice M. Linah Ravonjiarisoa, From language to encountering the Other: Professor Thomas Szende in Madagascar: education, interculturalism and sharing

Françoise Wolf-Mandroux, International mobility: a passport to language, culture and personal development

Francisco Fernando, Family language policies in Mozambique: A current overview

George Alao, Beyond English- and French-speaking Africa: rethinking 200 years of language policy through coloniality, multilingualism and linguistic justice

10.15 am – 11.00       Session 2     Louise Ouvrard

Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau, Robert Gaillard’s Macedonian adventure

Madalina Vartejanu-Joubert, The pedagogy of wordplay: orality, translatability, comprehension

Soksereyvathnea Sreng, Rithy Panh: mother tongue and the French language

11.00 – 11.15       Coffee break

11.15 am – 12.00 pm       Session 3     Patrice Pognan

Héba Medhat-Lecocq, Legal translation: between lexicon and discourse (French–Arabic)

Joëlle Popineau, Towards an integrated approach to vocabulary and translation teaching: observing, conceptualising, comparing and justifying (English–French legal domain)

Narivelo Rajaonarimanana, Contemporary lexicographical resources in the teaching of Malagasy

12.00 – 13.00       Session 4     Ivan Šmilauer

Bich Lien Bui, Grammar in foreign language teaching: reflections based on teaching ‘phải’ in Vietnamese to French speakers

Louise Ouvrard, The Malagasy verbal system. Its acquisition in classes where Malagasy is taught as a foreign language

Soyoung Yun-Roger, Evidentiality in Korean: challenges for its teaching and learning among French learners

Sibel Berk-Bozdémir, Turkish and Hungarian: linguistic convergences and teaching challenges

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm       Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00       Eduland

Diana Jamborova, Lola Lanier, Erasmus+ EduLand Project – Let’s Learn with Štefánik

3.00 pm – 4.00 pm       Session 5     Diana Jamborova

Thierry Geoffre, Patrice Pognan, Serious games, languages, grammatical reasoning and data analysis

Ivan Šmilauer, The diversity of declension errors in the acquisition of Czech as a foreign language: an outline of a learner corpus analysis

Nadia Kaaouas, From the ‘illusion of symmetry’ to network-based teaching: Modelling the spoken lexicon for language learning

Frine Favaloro, Bazi 八字 as a means of self-expression: personalised, AI-assisted learning scenarios in Chinese language classes

4.00 pm – 4.15 pm       Coffee break

4.15 pm – 5.45 pm        Session 6     Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau

Tatève Thomas, Language learning and cultural knowledge in the teaching of a rare language: the case of Eastern Armenian

Oumar Balde, Pulaar in Senegal: one language, multiple identities: several ways of speaking?

Falastin Rusrus, Teaching French as a Foreign Language remotely in a crisis context: the role of teachers between constraints and creativity. The case of the French Department at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza

Nadezda Abakarova, A French as a Foreign Language textbook: a mirror of an era: representing contemporary France in Russia

Lei WANG, Cultural diversity in the teaching of Chinese in France – an analysis of the new 2025 modern language curricula

Ecem Koz-Bektas, Multilingual language practices and morphosyntactic transfer among Turkish heritage speakers in a university context

5.45 pm          Closing        Ivan Šmilauer and Diana Jamborova