Ciara R. Wigham

Ciara R. Wigham is a Lecturer at Clermont Auvergne University, affiliated with the Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Communication and the Laboratoire de Recherche sur le Langage (LRL, EA 999). Her research focuses on foreign language learning in digital environments, multimodal interaction analysis, and teacher training for virtual exchange.

• Research Themes: AI in academic literacies, multimodal analysis of online language teaching, educational corpus design
• Projects: E-LIVE (Erasmus+), RACINES, Engaging Languages

Her work emphasizes technology appropriation in pedagogical contexts, with a focus on videoconferencing, text chat, and semiotic resources like facial expressions. She has published extensively on synchronous online language instruction and telecollaboration.

Current leadership roles include:

• Co-responsible for Theme 4 at the ACTé laboratory (since 2021)
• Co-head of the Master's in Multilingual Technical Documentation Engineering (2019-2020)

She supervises PhD students in areas such as multimodal pragmatic competence and emotional interaction in virtual learning.