Teaching Quality
If you are to remember but one thing about our Alliance Française, we hope that it will be the high quality and efficiency of our teaching. We strive to be the best in our field.
Highly qualified teachers
All our teachers are native speakers of the language they teach + hold a Master's degree in teaching
Who helped write a textbook!
Anaïs DOREY-MATER and Émilie PARDO, both of whom have more than ten years' experience at the Alliance Française Nice Côte d'Azur, are co-authors of the Cosmopolite French method (published by Hachette), which is used all over the world by tens of thousands of students, including those at our Alliance until 2023.
They train other teachers!
+40% of our teachers also teach as part of the university's FLE Master’s degree and/or in our Teacher Training Programme.
- Jérémy JOLIVALT dispenses the Cultures and Intercultural Approches (L3), the Methods Analysis (M1) and the French on Specific Objectives courses (M2).
- Sten ROI is a chair member of the Council of the Language Sciences / French as a Foreign Language Departments / Master 1 Internships Supervisor Lecturer, Master 1 : Grammar didactics and Introduction to Research and Career building. Lecturer, 3rd year of Licence / University Diploma (DU) French as Foreign Language (FLE) : Grammar didactics and Phonetic Correction Techniques applied to FLE.
- Christelle BOCCHIARDO instructs courses in Didactics of Writing (M1), Digital Language Teaching (M1), Francophonie (M1), Didactics of Grammar (M1), French for Specific Purposes (M2), and ICT Tools and Distance Learning (M2).
Study in small groups
Over the past four years, an average of 6 to 7 students per class! *
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HOURS OF CLASSES |
STUDENTS/CLASS AVERAGE |
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TOTAL HOURS |
TOTAL STUDENTS |
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2023 |
11048 |
161124 |
14,5 |
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2022 |
17094 |
152137 |
8,9 |
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2021 |
11536 |
81909 |
7,1 |
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2020 |
70457 |
14484 |
4,9 |
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2019 |
135970 |
20240 |
6,7 |
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2018 |
143476 |
19660 |
7,3 |
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2017 |
89320 |
13931 |
6,4 |
*These are yearly averages. We may occasionally have up to 18 students per class.
Cutting edge technology
Your classrooms are equipped with computer and digital display devices (iMac, Samsung Frame) and/or a Samsung Flip IWB.
iPads are also available for teachers for the smooth running of interactive activities and digital class projects. Your Alliance also benefits from its own fibre optic and 4G network allowing very high speed internet connection (50-200 Mbps).
We want to hear from you
Every two months, each student completes an anonymous satisfaction survey containing around thirty questions.
Your teacher, the premises, our friendliness or professionalism... your opinion (and your criticisms) are sought on many criteria. For us, these questionnaires are an important tool for managing and maintaining quality.
A recognised quality
FLE Quality label with the maximum score in each category.
Since 2013, we have systematically obtained the maximum score (3 stars) in each of the five criterias evaluated. Our students' satisfaction rate is close to 100% via public reviews on Google or Facebook.
Learn French at the Alliance Française de Nice
Classes adapted to all student profiles
The Alliance Française de Nice proposes a variety of French courses, general French, professional French, specialised workshops, examination preparation as well as personalised packages for all levels, all year round.
The course rhythm and hours vary and are adaptable to your availability:
- Super intensive (26h per week)
- Intensive (20h per week)
- Standard (12.5h per week)
- Evening classes (4h per week)
- Workshops (2h - 4h per week)
Contents aligned with CECRL recommendations
All our course contents correspond to the various levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CECRL) and we actively take into account its updates and the addition of new criteria, allowing you to acquire an internationally recognised learning level.
You will be placed in a class that corresponds to your level of French after doing a placement test and an individual interview aimed at determining your needs in order to learn French.
You are able to join all morning classes every Monday of the year, with the exception of complete beginners who are welcomed on the first Monday of each session (link to the session calendar) in order to guarantee an optimal teaching quality.
As for the evening classes and the various workshops, they are flexible and designed to allow registration at any time, throughout the year.
Nice is an attractive destination for so many students thanks to you. Our city takes great pride in this fact. I would like to reaffirm my greatest admiration.
Christian ESTROSI
Mayor of Nice - Minister
Honorary President of our Alliance Française
Our methodology
In our general and (super) intensive French courses, we use the Défi method from Editions Maison des Langues (EMDL), whose lessons provide a real introduction to the French language and French-speaking society. The activities, authentic materials and communicative situations proposed involve you actively in your learning and encourage you to think about how the language works and how it is used.
Our teaching team also makes a point of using all the teaching and digital resources at its disposal to make lessons more dynamic and offer you a wide variety of authentic multimedia materials: film extracts, press articles and cartoons, French songs, literary extracts, television reports, radio extracts, etc.
Fun, interactive activities, active participation in collaborative class projects and an emphasis on interculturality are just some of the aspects that will facilitate your social and professional integration into a French-speaking environment.
And because we are fully aware that each student is unique, our highly qualified teachers take into account your specific profile and adopt a differentiated approach adapted to your current level, your progress and your objectives. Alternating between work groups and one-to-one support will perfectly meet your expectations and needs: grammatical and lexical reinforcement, focus on a particular skill, development of strategies, preparation for an exam... because helping you develop strategies to become autonomous in French is our priority!.
Regular evaluations
In order to identify your strengths and to help you overcome your difficulties throughout your learning process, evaluations will be done on a regular basis:
- Grammar, conjugation and vocabulary quizzes related to the program;
- Skills tests (oral and written comprehension and expression) at the end of each level.
