"Teaching with radio" training sessions

Train to use radio as a teaching tool in French classes

Radio offers teachers a wide range of authentic sound documents that can be used both to work on spoken French comprehension and to improve oral and written expression, while developing an educational approach to the media and information. These sound documents can also be a springboard for radio production projects in class.

With the development of information and communication technologies, audio recording and broadcasting tools have become a lot more accessible and easier to use. Thanks to the training courses offered by Le français facile avec RFI, you can improve your understanding of radio speech, learn about the progressive, active approach of authentic documents, and explore the teaching potential of radio to move from listening to producing and creating audio content in the classroom.

The courses are adapted to meet the needs of teachers, whatever their speciality: FLE (French as a foreign language), FOS (French with specific objectives/French for professions), DNL (non-linguistic disciplines/teaching of non-linguistic subjects in French, etc.), the way they teach lessons (in person, remote, flipped classrooms, etc.), and the French level of their learners.

Courses "Learn and teach with radio"

Examples

• Work with current events in the FLE classroom from beginner level
  Contrary to popular belief, radio programmes are not only for the most advanced levels. Listening in sound immersion is in fact one of the first steps towards learning a language. This course shows you how to create activities adapted to learners' levels using sound bites that spark the imagination.
• Turn the classroom around with RFI radio resources
  Participants start working on a listening analysis of different radio documents in order to set up oral comprehension activities autonomously, and then extend these activities with oral and written production projects to do in the classroom.
• Produce a radio programme with the class
  Producing radio in class is a great way to involve learners from all levels in a group project that mobilises all kinds of skills: oral and written comprehension, speaking in class, writing, etc. This course introduces the tools and method for setting up a sound production activity.

These courses are available as part of the training events organised by our partners:

Support educational projects involving radio

The radio - an easy-to-access, local media - is a powerful tool for spreading and learning the French language among the general public. It's also a useful addition for teaching in schools and universities.

With over thirty years in the trade, the RFI French language service has developed expertise in producing bilingual radio programmes to raise awareness of French.

Our original series (Les voisins du 12 bis, Le Talisman brisé, Parlez-vous Paris*) are distributed to our partner radios to be used in local teaching projects, with a popular education approach.

Our team supports local educational institutions with training on how to design and produce educational emissions and use them to teach.

*Available for customised listening, these series come with teaching documentation from Le français facile avec RFI.

Examples

• French by radio in Ghana
  This project involves university and association radios and the French departments of universities in Ghana to produce bilingual programmes to raise awareness of French. The project is part of the action plan of the Linguistic Pact run by the OIF (International Francophone Institute) for Ghana, in cooperation with the cultural services of the French Embassy in Ghana.
• Parlons-nous Brest ?
  A series of seven news reports produced during a radio workshop with allophone students at the St-Pol-Roux middle school in Brest (Brittany, France). The project was devised to make them more familiar with life in the city while practising their French oral expression and radio reporting techniques.
• Le Talisman brisé in Burundi
  This project developed in Burundi involved adapting, producing and broadcasting a radio series to be used in the classroom. Support from teams at the Institut Français in Burundi, the Centre for Language Teaching in Burundi (CELAB) and the school radio N'deragakura resulted in a French-Kirundi version of "Le Talisman brisé" radio series. Teachers were trained on how to use the series and teaching material in their French classes.

Self-train online

Le français facile avec RFI offers online self-training modules to learn about using a media approach in French classes and to become familiar with how teaching projects can use the radio.

These modules are free and available on the Le français facile avec RFI website in the form of features and series, as well as on our partners' e-learning websites. They can be used to prepare or supplement training courses and workshops.

Examples

• Use media in the classroom with RFI and TV5MONDE
  This 3-hour module comprises 3 sequences starting with a placement test and ending with an assessment. Once you've completed the module, you'll be able to: use a video or audio clip in your "French as a foreign language" lessons; understand and apply the teaching method proposed by Le français facile avec RFI and TV5MONDE; and browse through the Le français facile avec RFI and TV5MONDE websites to find content to match your needs.
  Do the module on the FEI (France éducation international) website

Vous enseignez le français langue étrangère aux publics primo-arrivants ?

Deux modules de formation à distance et gratuite sont disponibles sur la plateforme FEI+ !

Ces modules gratuits proposent une formation en totale autonomie d’une durée de trois heures chacun, permettant aux formateurs.trices de s’approprier les ressources et la démarche pédagogique pour enseigner à partir de la série radiophonique Les voisins du 12 bis.

• Enseigner le FLE avec une fiction radio
• Enseigner la lecture-écriture avec une fiction radio

Ces formations sont proposées sur la plateforme partenaire FEI+ :