About

I am a documentary filmmaker, scriptwriter, and author of several educational works. My research interests lie in the field of pedagogy, arts, and entertainment, as well as second language didactics, focused on a target audience of migrant children within a European context, specifically in Germany.

I am completing a dual doctorate in collaboration with the Experice laboratory at the University Paris 8, in partnership with the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. Additionally, I am affiliated as a researcher at the Doctoral College of Haut-Rhin.

 

Responsabilities

I am currently a teacher of German as a foreign language in two secondary schools in Munich, where I am conducting my research.

 

Editorial Contributions
Coordination of Journal Issues

Revue PFA, Special Issue: Pluri/translingualism, Pluri/transculturality, and Language Autobiographies (2025)
Coordinators: Ilhem Belarbi, Nicole Blondeau, Pascale Prax-Dubois
Description: This issue explores the challenges faced by contemporary societies marked by global migrations and the urgent need to accommodate refugees fleeing war-torn countries. It examines the sociolinguistic and sociocultural dimensions of these displacements, highlighting language and educational practices in unequal multilingual contexts, focusing on language autobiographies as a tool for the valorization and awareness of the psycho-social stakes of languages.

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 Research topics

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Linguistic identity of adolescents: Study of identity development through languages among adolescents, considering migratory, social, and cultural factors.

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Multicultural Education : Analysis of educational practices fostering the integration of youth in culturally and linguistically diverse school environments.

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Sociolinguistics of Migrations: Study of linguistic variations and language interactions among young people in migratory or similar situations.

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Longitudinal Research on Youth Identity: Long-term analysis of linguistic identity developments among adolescents.

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Narratology and Adolescent Psychology: Exploration of young people's life stories and psychological aspects linked to identity construction through language.

 

Scientific Field of Activity:

• Educational Sciences

• German Linguistics

• Arts and Performing Sciences

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Key Publications:

Articles

• BELARBI, I. (2023) "Identity acculturation through body language: Case of recently arrived Muslim allophone youth in Germany." The Year of Research in Educational Sciences 2023, Paris, L'Harmattan.

• BELARBI, I, et al.(2022) "Crossed voices around AL experiences: singular pathways and collective journeys." in: Title of the forthcoming book, 2023, Paris, L'Harmattan.

• BELARBI, I. (2022) "Self-narratives through artistic practices." ICEM Echoes: The Bulletin, January-February 2023.

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Books

• BELARBI, I. (2024): Le livre bleu. Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2023): Milan. Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2021): Audiobook Momo and Schmolly at the Emperor GENUS. Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2021): Picture book Momo and Schmolly at the Emperor GENUS. Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2020): Workbook for the fairy tale book Momo and Schmolly at the Emperor GENUS. 2nd edition. Munich, Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2019): Coloring book for elementary school. Momo and Schmolly at the Emperor GENUS. Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2018): Momo and Schmolly in the Land of Lost Nouns. Munich, Zeothers Verlag.

• BELARBI, I. (2018): Logbook for school. Munich, Zeothers Verlag.

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Communications:

Conferences:

• International Communication in Ottawa, Canada AISLF on the Incarnation of the Researcher-Filmmaker in the Narrative of Documentary Films in Humanities and Social Sciences: A Reflexive Approach.

• Communication in the Inter-Congress Colloquium Aref 2023: 'Engagement in research, engaged research, research on engagement: what do educational and training sciences tell us?' "The researcher's involvement in their research."

• Language Autobiographies: Concepts, Forms, Devices. Study Day Roundtable led by Nicole Blondeau Crossed voices around AL experiences.

• Contribution to the RIDEF of Agadir. Presentation of didactic and pedagogical work with allophone children in Munich.

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Interventions:

Participation in doctoral seminars and various interventions in multiple universities and educational institutions.

 

European projects:

 

 IDéAl: Immersion - Challenge - Alterity: Participation in multidisciplinary action research aims to bring together psychologists, psychosociologists, teachers, researchers in Education Sciences, and linguists to study the processes and effects of immersion in a language other than the native language, among children and adolescents, allophones, and newly arrived individuals.

For more informations: 

https://www.ofaj.org/recherche-et-evaluation/projets-de-recherche/ideal-immersion-defi-alterite

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Erasmus +

Gymnasium Marion Dörr in Hamburg and France

Implementation of artistic and didactic practices based on my didactic works in two high schools in France and in Germany.

 

Filmography:

For a more exhaustive list or excerpts of films, please contact.

• "One Minute Rock Star" - Screenplay 2009 

• "Where is Batman" - Documentary 2018.

• "The Language of the Body" - Documentary 2019.

• "The Dragonfly Woman" - Documentary 2021.

• Several short films and commercials since 2009.