Sophie Milcent has been teaching French and literature at Quebec City's Collège Mérici since 1999. She has also been coordinating the Centre d'aide en français since 2011. After obtaining a master's degree in modern literature from the Université de Caen (France) in 1994 and a master's degree in literature from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 1996, she began her career teaching French as a second language, administrative writing and French refresher courses at university and college levels. These forays into the world of teaching the French language from different angles quickly made her realize that, to teach students with different backgrounds and profiles effectively, you have to get back to basics. She also believes that the fact that she spent many years studying Latin and German, two languages with declensions, led her to adopt a "different" approach to the rules and basic structure of the sentence, despite her subsequent training, which was essentially based on the study and analysis of literary works.
