Caroline Mekhaeil

Sessional Lecturer
caroline.mekhaeil@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • French Language
  • French Linguistics

Areas of Interest

  • French language acquisition
  • Multilingualism
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Eye-tracking
  • Syntax, semantics and language comparison
  • French teaching and learning
  • Heritage language 

Biography

Caroline Mekhaeil earned her PhD in French Linguistics where she explored how different languages are learned and processed. She also worked in different Linguistics labs, getting hands-on with research on how brains process communication. Caroline has also a lot of experience teaching French; she taught learners at every stage of their language journey. She loves making language learning fun and engaging.

 

Conference Article:

Mekhaeil, C. (2024). Influence des langues premières sur l’acquisition du français L3 de niveau débutant: Une étude exploratoire de l’association entre la dominance langagière et le positionnement adjectival chez les enfants bilingues simultanés. Actes des JDL 2024. 

Education

PhD in French Linguistics, University of Toronto
MA in French Linguistics, University of Toronto
BSc in Psychology and French Linguistics, University of Toronto