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How do Ukrainian refugees in France learn French?

Audio 29:00

Bernard Franco and Claire Extramiana.

© Cécile Lavolot / RFI

By: Pascal Paradou

1 min

Two months after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, nearly 5.3 million refugees have left the country, some of them having found asylum in France.

In this context, how is the teaching of the French language organized for these newcomers, fleeing the war?

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Guests:

  • Hervé Adami

    , university professor at

    the University of Lorraine

    , and author of

    Teaching French to migrant adults

    (Hachette, 2020)

  • Claire Extramiana

    , Head of the Language Proficiency and Territorial Action Mission, Territorial Action Advisor to the Delegate General and President of the Steering Committee of

    the European Center for Modern Languages ​​of the Council of Europe

    (ECML) 

  • Bernard Franco

    , director of the

    Cours de Civilization française at La Sorbonne

    , an institution with the FLE quality label, currently welcoming 70 Ukrainian refugees, member of the professional grouping of

    ADCUEFE

    (Association of directors of university centers teaching French to foreigners), professor at Paris-Sorbonne, in Comparative Literature

  • Report by

    Cécile Lavolot

    at the

    Catholic Institute of Paris

    .

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