Veronique Paolacci

Veronique Paolacci is a Senior Lecturer in Language Sciences at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, affiliated with the National Higher Institute of Teaching and Education (INSPÉ) and the CLLE-ERSS-UMR 5263 laboratory. Since 2009, she has focused on didactic approaches to learners' writing, grammar, punctuation, and teacher training. Her work spans primary and secondary education, emphasizing sentence structure and text segmentation.

• Doctorate in Language Sciences (2005, University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail)
• DEA in Language Sciences (2000)
• Agrégation of Modern Letters (1998)
• CAPES in Modern Literature (1992)

Her research investigates pedagogical strategies for writing instruction, comparing French and Brazilian educational practices. Key projects include analyzing sentence segmentation in student texts, innovating punctuation teaching, and integrating multimodal tools like emoticons. She co-supervises doctoral research and manages large-scale teacher training programs.

Recent publications highlight cross-cultural differences in writing proficiency and the role of institutional prescriptions in shaping grammar instruction. She actively contributes to conferences on didactic methods and educational innovation.

As co-facilitator of the DILIFOR axis since 2020, she drives collaborative research in language teaching and student assessment. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with classroom practices, particularly for primary education.