SSH/FIAL Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres (FIAL)
SSH/FIAL/ELAL Ecole de langues et lettres (ELAL)
SSH/ILC Institut Langage et Communication (IL&C)
SSH/ILC/PLIN Pôle de recherche en linguistique (PLIN)
Professeure à l'UCLouvain, mes recherches portent sur le développement des langues additionnelles, en particulier l'anglais, ainsi que sur les technologies éducatives - en ce compris l'intelligence artificielle - et leurs usages dans l'enseignement et l'apprentissage des langues. Je m'intéresse également aux politiques linguistiques dans les contextes multilingues, aux approches plurilingues, aux interactions entre les acteurs humains et les technologies, ainsi qu'à la conception d'environnements d'apprentissage innovants favorisant l'inclusion, l'agentivité, le développement des connaissances en général et des compétences linguistiques en particulier.
I am a Professor at UCLouvain whose research focuses on additional language development, particularly English, educational technologies - including artificial intelligence - for language learning and teaching. My work also explores language policies in multilingual settings, plurilingual education, human–technology interaction, and the design of innovative learning environments that foster inclusion, agency, knowledge development in general and language development in particular.
Fanny MEUNIER
Professor | UCLouvain
Additional Language Development • Educational Technologies • Multilingual Education
Professional profile
Fanny Meunier is Full Professor at UCLouvain and Academic Director of the Circle U. Multilingualism, Intercultural and Language Lab (CU.mil). Her research investigates how educational technologies—including artificial intelligence and social robotics—can support additional language development in increasingly multilingual educational environments. Her work brings together educational linguistics, plurilingual education, language policy, ecological and socio-material perspectives, and design-based research to develop innovative, inclusive and human-centred approaches to language learning and teaching.
Research expertise
Additional Language Development
English Language Education
Educational Technologies
Artificial Intelligence in Education
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning (TELL/CALL)
Human–AI Interaction
Social Robotics for Education
Plurilingual Education
Multilingualism
Language Policy in Multilingual Settings
Educational Linguistics
Ecological Approaches to Language Education
Socio-material Perspectives
Design-Based Research
Teacher Education
Academic leadership
Full Professor, UCLouvain
Academic Director, Circle U. Multilingualism, Intercultural and Language Lab (CU.mil)
Co-spokesperson, TeAMM Research Group (Teaching and Acquiring Multilingualism and Multiliteracies)
Selected funded projects
Beyond Barriers (Horizon Europe)
Language in the Human–Machine Era (COST Action)
TEMPLATE – Technology-Mediated Plurilingual Activities for Teacher Education (Erasmus+)
Pacte pour un Enseignement d’Excellence – Consortium Langues Modernes
Research impact
11 completed PhD supervisions
3 doctoral researchers currently supervised
External PhD examiner in Belgium, the UK, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hong Kong
Leadership and participation in numerous European research and educational initiatives
Research vision
I study how humans, languages and technologies learn together. My research explores how artificial intelligence, educational technologies and multilingual pedagogies can enhance (not replace) human learning, teaching and interaction.
Contact
Institute for Language and Communication (ILC), UCLouvain
Place Cardinal Mercier 31, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Email: fanny.meunier@uclouvain.be
| Année | Libellé | Établissement |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Docteur en philosophie et lettres (langues et littératures germaniques ) | UCLouvain | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
| 1991 | Agrégée de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur ( philologie germanique ) | UCLouvain | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |
| 1990 | Licenciée en philologie germanique | UCLouvain | Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique) |