Chantal DOMPMARTIN-NORMAND

Chantal DompMartin-Normand is an Associate Professor at the University of Lorraine who successfully defended her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) on December 1, 2023. Her research focuses on experiential writing workshops as a sensitive pedagogical approach for culturally and linguistically diverse students learning French as a foreign or additional language.

Her work sits at the intersection of multilingualism didactics and sociolinguistics, examining how narrative writing mediates language acquisition and cultural adaptation during migration. She frames writing workshops as spaces for crafting emancipatory narratives, raising critical questions about power dynamics in language education through philosophical, political, and epistemological lenses. Key innovations include treating writing as both cognitive tool and sociopolitical act in repatriating learners to new linguistic territories.

Dr. DompMartin-Normand's research is institutionally anchored in the SLTC Doctoral School (Sciences du Langage, du Texte et de la Communication) under University of Lorraine's academic framework, with her HDR supervised by Professor Dominique Macaire from the ATILF Laboratory (UMR 7118).