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About

A second-language school born out of teaching practice.

More than 30 years of combined experience in language teaching and professional second-language training. The company has operated under the name Insitu SL since 2012, and has delivered all of its training online since 2020.

Institutional illustration: five stylised silhouettes standing together, representing the teaching team.

Our teaching team

Our teaching team

Insitu aims to provide instructional continuity where possible while adapting training arrangements to the needs of the learning plan. That is what allows a session to resume where the last one stopped.

Teaching is delivered in French and English as a second language, to adults in a professional setting, using Insitu's own learning materials.

Our approach

Assessment preparation is integrated into a training plan adapted to the learner's level, professional objectives and language needs.

Work may include understanding instructions, organizing responses, oral communication, language accuracy and strategies useful in an assessment setting.

The two directors of Insitu SL working together at a desk.

Our history

About Insitu SL

Insitu SL was founded in 2012. Both founders were teaching before it existed — Stéphane Deschênes has taught French since 1997 — and that is where the more than 30 years of combined experience this site refers to comes from. The business then grew by word of mouth, among a clientele made up mostly of employees of federal departments and agencies.

Since 2020 all training has been delivered online: live on Microsoft Teams and Zoom, with programmes built for each learner. Workplace sessions remain available on request.

The name still says the essential part — in situ, where the language is actually used. What changed is where that happens.

Direction

The founders

  • Portrait of Noubya Bouali-Deschênes.

    Noubya Bouali-Deschênes

    Director and Co-founder

  • Portrait of Stéphane Deschênes.

    Stéphane Deschênes

    Director and Co-founder

Adapted paths

Training is delivered online, in one-on-one or group sessions, live on Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Alongside it there is a supported self-study programme and paths designed for learners with learning difficulties, where the pace and the kind of exercise are adapted without lowering the language objective.

Workplace sessions are available on request. They are an option, not the default mode of delivery.

Get in touch

Let's talk about your objective.

For any question about the company or about the training.

or write to us directly info.insitusl@gmail.com