Olivier Crepelliere

In addition to a solid and founding education in the fields of Film Studies and Modern French Literature, Olivier Crépellière decided to study the teaching of French as a Foreign Language, as well as the Didactics of Languages and Training Engineering at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3).

Starting his career in 2007 at the University of Philology of Novi Sad (Serbia), then returning to France on a mission for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication via the General Delegation for the French Language and languages of France, he then continued his teaching in various institutions such as the University of Chicago (Center in Paris), the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm), the École Polytechnique, Sciences Po Paris, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris 3), etc.

For more than sixteen years, he has trained French or foreign students and teachers of absolutely all levels in: French as a Foreign Language, Image Education, French Didactics, Introduction to French Linguistics, French Academic Writing Methodology, French Civilization, French Press and Current Affairs, Corrective Phonetics, French Grammar, TCF and DELF / DALF preparation (test and diplomas of studies or in-depth studies in French).

Working at AUP since 2015, he also holds a double DELF / DALF accreditation issued in 2009 by France Education International (formerly CIEP), the reference center in the field of certification and assessment of French. He can therefore both:

• officially assess any foreigner wishing to obtain a diploma certification in French as a foreign language (which he has done by being a jury, examiner and corrector of DELF / DALF sessions several times, for the Alliance Française in particular),
• and through its education in Language Didactics and Training Engineering, deliver to any establishment that so wishes, extensive expertise in the field of assessment and overhaul of the offer and course content adapted to the CEFR ( Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

Finally, Olivier Crépellière believes in a new approach to language teaching through the arts and culture, which allows both to escape their instrumentalization by avoiding exclusively disciplinary approaches. but also to move to a logic of « appropriation » and not simply of « acquisition », since:

"Like long echoes that intermingle from afar (...)
The perfumes, the colors and the sounds respond." * 

* (1) Baudelaire, C., Correspondences, in The Flowers of Evil, librairie générale, 18