Bruno Maurer

Bruno Maurer is a Full Professor and Director of the School of French as a Foreign Language (FLE) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), serving since August 2019. His career spans teaching in France and Djibouti, focusing on FLE teacher training and sociolinguistic research in Africa. He holds a doctorate from Montpellier 3 Paul-Valéry University, with expertise in language contact dynamics and didactics. Maurer directed the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie’s Indian Ocean Office and the Dipralang laboratory. His research emphasizes language policies, multilingual education, textbook analysis, and post-terrorist discourse. He currently oversees the TDFLE journal and advocates for equitable language education frameworks in diverse sociocultural contexts.

Education: Modern Literature studies at Montpellier 3 Paul-Valéry University, including a teaching qualification (Agrégation). Early career included secondary teaching in France and FLE teacher training in Djibouti, alongside sociolinguistic fieldwork on French-Djiboutian language dynamics.

Research Interests:

• Sociolinguistics of language contact and multilingualism.
• Didactics of French as a second/foreign language.
• Educational language policies and curriculum design.
• Teacher professionalism and institutional challenges in FLE.
• Linguistic representations and discourse analysis.

Leadership and Projects:

• Director of UNIL’s FLE School, driving pedagogical innovation and program development.
• Former Director of Dipralang (Montpellier) and the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie’s Indian Ocean Office.
• Editor of Travaux de didactique du français langue étrangère (TDFLE).
• Key contributor to multilingual education initiatives in Africa, including the ELAN-Afrique program.

Grants and Collaborations:

• Research partnerships in Mali, Madagascar, and Djibouti.
• Consultancy for international organizations on language policy and education equity.

Labs/Teams:

Leads the FLE School’s research group at UNIL and collaborates with Dipralang in Montpellier on sociolinguistic and didactic studies.