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

- Researcher associated In the Laboratory DILTEC Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris

https://www.sorbonne-nouvelle.fr/membres-du-diltec-129170.kjsp?RH=1310459875314

- Teacher in German as a foreign language at two secondary schools in Munich, where I carry out my research. 

-Co-coordinator of the working Group  AIRSL "Film and Research in Social Sciences".

https://www.aislf.org/squelettes/annuaire/annuaire11.php?num=03378

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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. (2025) "Autobiographical Language Comics as a Didactic Tool and Identity Marker: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study in Germany" (Forthcoming)

• 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. (2025): Madame Marceau, FLE Didactic. Zeothers Verlag.

• 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:

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• 11th EDiLiC Conference - Plurilingual Literacies in Education: Pluralistic Approaches inside and beyond the classroom/Students’ and teachers’ education 
  Titre : Littératies plurilingues et médiations artistiques : Révéler les trajectoires identitaires des jeunes migrants par la co-construction narrative et artistique:Mots-clés : Littératie plurilingue, pratiques narratives, médiations artistiques, automédialité, identité narrative, recherche-création
   

• International conference "French and Francophone Studies: Blurring Disciplinary BoundariesEFLU, Hyderabad India: invited speaker"Language and Creativity: Action Research/Creation for a Transformative Didactics in Foreign Language Teaching" 

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• 10th Interdisciplinary Conference of the DAAD-funded Centers for German and European Studies
  "Belonging(s) in a Globalized World" | May 19–23, 2025 | CDEA | Porto Alegre Brazil:"Belonging and Identity in a Globalized Context: The Pedagogy of Transformative Subjectivation as an Identity Tool for Young Migrants.

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• Study Days on the theme "Additional Language Acquisition by Migrants Resettling in a New Country", organized at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès on May 26–27, 2025.

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• 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.

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• 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."

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

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• 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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Projet Erasmus + 2025/2026: The Echoes of Silence

An anthropological, linguistic, and sound-based project

The Echoes of Silence is an Erasmus+ initiative implementing artistic and didactic practices based on my pedagogical works in three high schools in France and Germany.

Through visual, narrative, and sound-based expression, the project explores migration, language, and identity with students from diverse backgrounds.

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Projet Erasmus + and OFAJ  2024/2025: "Raconte moi ta migration"

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

For more informations:

https://www.ofaj.org/recherche-et-evaluation/projets-de-recherche/ideal-immersion-defi-alterite/raconte-moi-ta-migration-histoires-de-vie-travers-lart-et-lapprentissage-de-la-langue

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Projet Erasmus + Volare 2024:

intervention as a research artist as part of the Projet Erasmus + Volare . The project aims to create a digital repository that captures real-life testimonies from people belonging to minority groups and to familiarise students and educators with interdisciplinary methodology and participatory ethnographic approaches.

For more informations: 

https://volare-project.eu/fr/description-objectifs-du-projet/

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Educational and didactic interventions in schools
Project Title: “Momo and Schmolly. Didactic and artistic approaches based on life narratives”

• Description: Conducted year-long interventions in schools in Germany and France, implementing didactic practices derived from my educational books. These workshops were designed to support young migrants in learning the host language and expressing their identity through art and storytelling.

• Partnership and Funding: Supported and funded by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ).

• Outcomes: Active student engagement in artistic productions (narratives, drawings, videos) and strengthened linguistic and cultural inclusion.​

 

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.