TEACHING METHOD
Centre International d'Antibes

Teaching, at the Centre International d'Antibes, is based on : an adapted teaching method, an experience in students' life and their needs and an Excellence Charter, that we are improving year after year.

Depending on the course chosen and the level of written and oral communication needs of each student, our staff will build a structured and progressive set of French lessons which are of interest to the pupil. This style of teaching allows students to improve their abilities in understanding and expressing colloquial and formal written grammar of the French language at a rapid rate.
Teachers will allow students' learning to progress at their own individual rate, within a friendly and captivating atmosphere.

• The teachers at the Centre International d’Antibes are highly-experienced, and all specialized in the teaching of French as a foreign language. All possess the academic qualifications which are mandatory to ensure the highest standard of performance in their field.

• Many teachers complement their experience with a specialty in another field : management - marketing - sociology - psychology - technical foreign language - architecture - ethnology - law..

• The books used to supplement class lessons are directly aimed at teaching French as a foreign language. Each student also receives a grammar book - written and designed by the Centre International d’Antibes's teaching staff specifically for our students.

• Teaching support primarily consists of a range of 'real life' documents, such as newspaper articles, audio and video tapes, adverts, photographs, paintings from different periods in history, cartoons, film clips, novels and French songs.

• The French language school is well-equipped with all the necessary audio-visual equipment necessary : televisions, VCRs, tape-recorders and video-recorders.

• A media library house several hundred documents.

• A library is also at our students disposal.

In 2001, the CIA participated in the 'Year of European Languages', by adopting both the educational standards agreed by the Council of Europe and European Commission, and the European Portfolio - a scheme to promote the study of European languages.
Each student will be in a group set up by level defined by this Common European Framework.

At the close of every successfully completed course, you will be awarded a “Certificat de Français” or the diploma corresponding to the examination you have passed (DELF or Alliance Française).