Author: Mathieu Cladidier, French Teacher

Mathieu Cladidier joined the Lycée in 2018. Originally from the Lorraine region in France, he was born and raised in Nancy. He earned a master’s degree in modern and comparative French literature at Université Nancy 2 and began teaching in 2001. Mathieu’s first experience abroad was in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011. He moved to the U.S. in 2012 to teach at École Bilingue in Berkeley, CA, where he eventually took on the newly-created position of French curriculum coordinator. In 2016, he taught at Lycée Condorcet of Sydney, Australia while also overseeing the school’s support program for non-native French speakers. Mathieu is interested in the teaching of French as a second language, introducing new technology to the teaching of French and to language acquisition as well as to neuroscience in a bilingual environment.