Denyze TOFFOLI

# Denyze Toffoli 115C route de Narbonne 31077 Toulouse cedex, FRANCE e-mail : dtoffoli@lairdil.fr **HIGHER EDUCATION** 2018 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (Highest qualification in French system – post PhD), Applied Linguistics. Université de Lille, France. 2000 Doctorat (PhD), Applied Linguistics. Université de la Rochelle, France. 1985 Master of Arts, Comparative Literature. University of Toronto, Canada. 1983 Bachelor of Arts, French, First Class Honours, University of British Columbia, Canada. # PROFESSIONNAL POSITIONS **since 1 septembre 2019 Full professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III.** - 2020-present: Board Member of Linguistics Research lab Lairdil http://lairdil.fr. - 2020-2024: Prize in recognition of research activity (PEDR). - 2022: Responsible for institution-wide English Language Certification. **2006-2019 Associate professor, Applied linguistics, Université de Strasbourg.** - 2015-2019: Elected Head of Institution-wide language provision (10 Language Centres; 15.000 students; 41 tenured teachers and 40 contract instructors; 8 administrative staff; 120 student employees; annual budget 450K€). Elected Board member and president of IWLP steering committee. - 2018: Prize in Recognition of Pedagogical Investment (PRIP). - 2014-2015: Nominated Head of IWLP steering committee. - 2010-2016: Elected Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics (14 teaching staff, 3 administrative staff, 2 technicians, 200 Masters students, several hundred students in optional courses). - 2014-2019: Elected Board Member Language Faculty. - 2007-11 and 2018-19: Board Member of Applied Linguistics Research lab LiLPa http://lilpa.unistra.fr/ddl. - 2008-2017 : Secretary General, then President of the international research association Acedle (Association des chercheurs et enseignants en didactique des langues). - 2007-2014 Co-editor in chief of Acedle's international peer-reviewed publication (http://acedle.org/spip.php?rubrique40). **1992-2012 Owner / manager / senior consultant, Development & Training** (up to 4 employees). Senior consultant for all instructional design, quality control and call-to-tender contracts. Management of in-house language training centres for major clients. Teacher training. English and French language training. Communications and personal development training. Daily management of company affairs: finances, marketing, human resources, production, bookkeeping. Significant contracts and projects: - Renault – definition and deployment of language-training policy; assistance with calls to tender for training organisations; quality control. - Bank de France – definition and deployment of language-training policy; assistance with calls to tender for training organisations. - Rank Xerox – definition of language-training policy; set-up and management of 3 in-house language-training centres. - Eurotunnel – definition of recruitment and training policy for English and French languages on both sides of the Channel; definition of language profiles per job profile; design of language tests in both languages. **1990-1991 National language training manager, AFPA** (National Association for Adult Vocational Training – 135 Training Centres and 10000 employees throughout France). Design of national policy for integration of language instruction (primarily English, but also Spanish, German and Italian) into vocational training. Experimentation and deployment of self-access-based language training. Teacher training. **1987-2006 Instructor**, various prestigious institutions of higher education in the Paris region, notably the l’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris and Polytechnique. Specialty language courses for engineers, management, political sciences, etc. **1987-1990 Training Consultant, Institut Français de Gestion** (300 employees). Paris, France. Sales and language training for management. 1986-1987 Trainer, Executive Language Services (30 employees). Paris, France. 1985-1086 Lecturer, Université de Nice, France. 1983-1985 Teaching Assistant (T.A.), University of Toronto, Canada. 1981-1983 French language Assistant, Vancouver School Board, Vancouver, Canada. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS 1986-présent Numerous short courses in pedagogy, psychology, negotiation, marketing, human resources, personal development, ICT use, management, etc. 1992 Master practitioner diploma in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), Insititut Français de PNL, Paris, France. 1986 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) Certificate, Royal Society of Arts, London, UK.