Moise Lemonnier, Ph.D.

Moïse Lemonnier, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, where he has been teaching since 2021. His courses include French as a foreign language (A1–C2), phonetics and phonology, FLE didactics, geographical and Social Variation in French, and French culture and civilization. Since 2017, he has also been teaching in the French-Czech bilingual section of the Pierre-de-Coubertin secondary school in Tábor, where he teaches French, literature, and argumentation, while also serving as national pedagogical coordinator for French in the Czech bilingual sections. In France, he worked as a certified teacher of Lettres modernes and French as a second language in the Rennes education authority. He is also an accredited DELF-DALF examiner and marker (A1–C2).

His academic path is interdisciplinary and distinctive. After obtaining a French Baccalauréat in Economics and Social Sciences, he first trained in bakery and obtained a CAP/BEP in this field. He then pursued studies in sociology, including a Bachelor’s degree completed in Tallinn, Estonia, through the Erasmus programme, followed by a Master’s degree in Sociology in Rouen. He then completed a Bachelor’s degree in Law with a specialization in Public Administration, a Master 1 in Arts, Languages and Linguistics, and a research and professional Master’s degree in French Literature and Teacher Education (MEEF), specialising in Literature and Teaching Professions. In 2025, he defended a doctoral dissertation in Romance Studies at the University of South Bohemia devoted to the dynamics of foreign language learning in the Czech educational system.

He is a member of TMMCLR (Theories, Methods, and Models in Contemporary Linguistic Research), of the EFE research network, Gallica, and of the organizing committee of the international SIHFLES 2026 conference in Prague. His research profile lies at the intersection of sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, educational policy, cultural transfer, and discourse analysis.

Doctoral dissertation
In 2025, he defended a doctoral dissertation entitled "Étude longitudinale (2004–2024) des dynamiques d’apprentissage des langues étrangères dans le système scolaire tchèque : analyse des politiques éducatives, des transferts culturels et de l’imaginaire linguistique". The dissertation combines a longitudinal analysis of statistical data from the Czech Ministry of Education, the study of Franco-Czech educational and cultural transfers, and a sociolinguistic analysis of linguistic imaginaries.

Publications
Published articles:
- Lemonnier, M., "Výuka cizích jazyků na základních a středních školách v letech 2005 až 2023 v České republice", Cizí jazyky, 2023, s. 13–26.
- Lemonnier, M., "L’apprentissage du français dans le système scolaire tchèque : présentation des dernières données", Bulletin SUF, č. 108, 2023, s. 23–25.
– Lemonnier, M., "Le transfert culturel dans l’apprentissage des langues étrangères dans le système scolaire tchèque de 2005 à 2023", Romanistica Comeniana, 2024, s. 194–218.
– Lemonnier, M., "L’imaginaire linguistique à travers l’analyse d’adjectifs : comprendre les motivations des apprenants dans le choix d’une langue étrangère", Studia Romanistica, roč. 24, č. 2, 2024, s. 23–41.
– Lemonnier, M., "L’imaginaire linguistique des langues étrangères dans la presse tchèque : une étude à partir du corpus Korpus.cz", Folia Litteraria Romanica, roč. 20, č. 2, 2025, s. 125–137.
–Lemonnier, M., « L’évolution de l’apprentissage du français dans le système scolaire tchèque : défis dans un contexte multilingue en recomposition depuis la guerre en Ukraine », Annales de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de Novi Sad, 50(3), 2025, p. 237–252. DOI : 10.19090/gff.v50i3.2618.

Conferences and presentations
– 26th Francophone Doctoral School of the Visegrád Countries, Bratislava, 13–14 October 2023: L’évolution de l’apprentissage des langues étrangères dans le système scolaire tchèque.
– International Conference in Linguistics and Literature, Ostrava, 9–10 May 2024: Étude de l’imaginaire linguistique des élèves tchèques.
– International Meeting of the EFE Network, Warsaw, 17–18 June 2024: <em>État des lieux et défis des études françaises en République tchèque.
– ALPF Summer University, Lithuania, 26–28 June 2024: Évolution de l’apprentissage du français dans le système scolaire tchèque.
– 27th Visegrád Doctoral School “Correspondances”, Toruń, 26–27 September 2024: L’influence de l’imaginaire linguistique médiatique sur l’apprentissage des langues étrangères.
– 17th International Conference “Les Études françaises aujourd’hui”, Novi Sad, 25–26 October 2024: Défis pour le français dans un paysage multilingue.
– International Conference “Learner Corpora and Academic Corpora…”, Pamplona, 3–4 February 2025: Imaginaires linguistiques médiatiques et perceptions des apprenants.
– International SIHFLES Conference, Prague, 28–29 May 2026: <em>Institutionnaliser le français en Tchécoslovaquie : transferts éducatifs et culturels à travers les accords de 1923 et 1945.

Current research interests
His current research focuses on sociolinguistics, language policy, cultural transfer, and linguistic imaginaries, especially in relation to the teaching of French in the Czech and Central European context. He is also developing a comparative research project on foreign language learning in the school systems of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland between 2004 and 2024.