DU French as a foreign language

Cross-disciplinary skills

• Acquire the skills and knowledge needed to better manage the diversity of languages and cultures in a multilingual school environment
• A better understanding of the difficulties encountered by learners and teachers during the teaching/learning process

Scientific and technical skills

• Understanding the linguistic difficulties encountered by allophone learners when learning French
• Activities to promote oral and written expression in the FLE classroom
• Programming teaching sequences
• Analysing French as a foreign language or French as a second language textbooks
• To be familiar with the history of methodologies in the teaching of French as a foreign language
• Understanding the boundaries between FFL/FLS and FLE

Subject-specific skills

• Managing the diversity of languages and cultures in schools,
• Analysing French as a foreign language or French as a second language textbooks
• Selecting media to suit the audience
• Creating fun activities
• Carry out assessments that take account of the skills targeted

Recruitment level : Bac +1

Accessible in : initial or continuing training

Training required :
Bac + 2, in particular in Humanities, Languages, Social Sciences or equivalent diploma or professional experience

Registration form:
Enrolment is by application.

Semester 1

• Writing techniques, 12 hours TD, 2 ECTS
• Teaching French in a plurilingual environment, 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Le FLE, le FLS, le FOS, le FOU : notions, tools and approaches 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Language policies and language cooperation 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Oral and written practice of a language spoken in French Guyana, 24 hours TD, 2 ECTS

Semester 2

• Languages spoken in French Guiana: dynamics and issues, 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Introduction to language didactics: the case of FLE, 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Textbook analysis and evaluation in FLE, 10 hours CM, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Oral and written practice of a language spoken in French Guyana, 24 hours TD, 2 ECTS
• Reading and writing in the FLE classroom, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS
• Internship and report writing, 12 hours TD, 3 ECTS

Internship: compulsory work placement. The work placement in initial training alternates between a school and a company.

Students with the DU FLE and a bachelor's degree (or other equivalent university qualification) can study for a master's degree, which, depending on the university, can take several different forms:

• Language Didactics (French as a Foreign Language/French as a Second Language)
• Master's degree in French as a foreign language (didactics of French as a foreign language/French as a second language, professions in French as a foreign language, training engineering and international cooperation, language policies - education policies, etc.).

Career opportunities

• Teacher of French as a foreign language abroad (cultural centres and institutes, associations, etc.)
• Teachers of French as a foreign language in France (trainers in charge of integrating migrant populations into schools, such as CASNAV: Centre académique pour la scolarisation des nouveaux arrivants et des enfants du voyage, UPE2A (Unités pédagogiques pour élèves allophones arrivants))
• Cooperation attaché for French
• Educational cooperation attaché
• Director of institutes or Alliances françaises
• Head of Education
• Education coordinator
• Designer of FLE teaching materials (publishing houses)

Sectors of activity

• Professions in education and training in a plurilingual environment