Gwenola Le Gall
Gwenola LE GALL
Professeure agrégée in English
Director of Pôle Langues
20 avenue Le Gorgeu
29200 BREST
France
An English teacher at the University of Brest, France (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) since 1996, Gwenola Le Gall has been the head of Pôle Langues, a department in charge of coordinating Language Courses for the university for 3 years.
Trained in Brest, she passed a Research Master’s degree in Celtic Studies in ‘Ideology and Cultural Expression in the Work of Hugh McDiarmid’, with the highest honours, in 1995. She took the Agrégation, the selective exam organized in France to recruit teachers for the last 3 years of secondary school, which also allows teaching at University level.
She later passed a Master’s degree in French as a Foreign Language.
In her 27 years of experience both in France and in the United Kingdom, she has displayed a great team spirit and held several positions of leadership
- managing a team of 10 English and French communication teachers for 4 years, or organizing internal and external communication for the Faculty of Science in Brest
- coordinating French as a Foreign Language classes for the University of Kent in Britain and liaising with their Paris Campus 2014-2016
A creative and dedicated English teacher, she has always been a keen user of new technologies. She developed her first online course in 2007 for third-year science students and tutored it with a colleague for 5 years. She has since kept looking for the most efficient tools to address students and staff needs in language learning.
She and her team in the Faculty of Science have devised courses of English for Specific Purposes for all the scientific courses offered at UBO, ranging from Biology and Environmental science to Physics and Material science, from BSc to doctoral level.
She was trained in providing support in English as a Medium of Instruction by Oxford EMI Ltd in 2017 and has organized several courses at UBO, as part of the University’s internationalization objectives.
As head of Pôle Langues, she is in charge of recruiting temporary language teachers for all the schools of Brest University, coordinating language curricula for non-linguists as well as organizing language training for staff.
She was a member of the first SEA EU’s Identity subcommittee and as such, participated in the creation of the Virtual Language Course platform, and co-organised the final Staff Week for the subcommittee in Brest in May 2022. She is now part of SEA EU’s Task 4.6 group on ‘Promoting multilingualism, fostering language competence in English and establishing a common SEA-EU Policy’.