French by EPITA
Established in 2015, the French language Center of EPITA (French by EPITA) is an accredited French as Foreign Language (FLE) teaching center since its beginning.
Part of EPITA engineering school, the language center at its Paris campus helps international students feel at home with French language and culture, enhancing their day-to-day French language proficiency at the school and in their future careers.
Every year, the French by EPITA center welcomes over 40 different nationalities to its Paris campus. With over 200 students, studying French at EPITA offers you opportunities to connect with many other native French-speaking and international students, promoting personal and professional development in a truly multicultural environment.
Our classes for students
Our classes are based on the recommendations of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL).
EPITA Bachelor’s and Master’s programs include 6 and 3 semesters of on-campus French classes respectively.
Tailor-made programmes for institutions
For institutions, French by EPITA offers tailor-made courses. The teaching team is skilled at delivering programmes that meet the needs of a wide range of French and international partners. The Center currently trains over 130 international students from a variety of institutions, including some of EPITA’s international programme students.
Tailor-made training is ideal for the following student profiles:
- International students at a university: to be able to communicate in French and validate ECTS credits;
- Professionals: to be able to communicate in French in everyday work situations.
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Our teaching and learning method
- Customised training to suit all levels of proficiency in French
- Innovative teaching and learning using digital tools
- Content tailored to students’ interests
French by EPITA Team is composed of dynamic and passionate teachers, all graduated and specialized in French as a foreign language teaching.
Our programs, professionnal, fun, communicative and intercultural, are elaborated regarding the CEFR recommendations. The Centre offers courses to reach all the reference levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2.
Before the beginning of each program, the pedagogical team gives an orientation test to each student in order to know their French level. The aim is to place the student in a groupe adapted to their needs. Each competence level proposed by the CEFR is reachable through several steps and according a rythm adapted by French by EPITA.
The regular conversation with French teachers, exams throughout the whole program and a final exam in the of of the journey allow to observe the student’s progress and the French level obtained.
EPITA entities always make sure to be at the cutting edge of innovation. Therefore, French by EPITA proposes a modern learning process, which does not only include grammar but all the linguistic and cultural practices that teachers transmit to their students. In a continuous search of improvement, the teachers are often trained to the pedagogical innovations and latest teaching methods.
Teachers are able to adapt to every teaching way thanks to the material available in French by EPITA Centre. Wether it is on site courses, online or hybrid, the teaching team adapts the content and offers a variety of activites to the students, in order for them to be able to listen, read, speak and write French in the end of the program. The classrooms are equiped with interactive TVs allowing to show reports, do interactive games, study language with songs, etc.
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