Center for Language Training and Self-Study - CFAL

Registration for the BONUS langues at CFAL for the 1ᵉʳ semester 2025-2026 will take place between September 15 and 26, 2025.
Three activities are open to the Language Bonus: Guided self-study - Intercomprehension - Tandem.

To apply, in two steps:

• Fill in the BONUSapplication form during pedagogical registration
• Come to the CFAL reception desk (C.115, Bâtiment Egger) to register for one of the activities offered as part of the BONUS Langues program.

The guided self-study program is designed to support students in their language learning. At the start of the course, you will be put in touch with a tutor with whom you will define your objective and the means to be implemented (e.g. work on the online language learning platform, participation in conversation or tutorial workshops, etc.). Throughout the course, you will be accompanied by your tutor.

It is possible to acquire a bonus. Registration is compulsory.

Language bonus conditions (0.5 points)

The aim of this program is to enable you to practice speaking your chosen language in pairs. You will exchange half the time in your partner's mother tongue, and the other half in your own, to enrich each other's knowledge. Tandems can be face-to-face or by videoconference with students from partner universities.

Language Bonus conditions (0.5 points)

" Language Cafe " is a CIVIS project run by Stockholm University. One hour a week, you discuss a given topic with students from different universities (CIVIS partners and UNAM in Mexico, HUFS in South Korea, Osaka University or Leipzig University). The activity takes place online, via the Zoom platform.

If you would like to take part in the Language Cafe workshops, please fill in the registration form.

Intercomprehension is the practice of speaking or writing in one's mother tongue with a speaker of another language. In this workshop, you'll be guided to read and understand texts in several languages you know little or nothing about, including the following: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Provençal and Catalan.

Timetable : six Thursdays (October 9 and 16, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 2025), from 4 to 5.30 p.m.
Location : CFAL, C.105, Bâtiment Egger

For further information, please contact CFAL (C.115)

Sandrine CADDEO is a lecturer in Language Sciences at Aix-Marseille University, and a researcher at the Parole et Langage Laboratory (LPL, UMR 7309, AMU, CNRS).

In this interview, she talks about intercomprehension, a method that enables the learner to understand several new foreign languages, both written and spoken, in a very short space of time. The success of such learning depends on a number of parameters, the main ones being the degree of proximity of the target languages (language families), the transfer of skills already acquired (reading and listening skills) and the type of working aids (their content is based on shared knowledge).

Practice your English through film! Film screening and discussion in English with a native speaker.

• Location : room B007, Bâtiment Egger or le Cube, salle Plateau (depending on dates)
• Times : from 5pm to 8pm, screening of the film in OV with French subtitles, followed by a discussion in English.
• Dates and films: to be announced

The PENSA project aims to develop the techno-pedagogical skills of teachers and the digital citizenship of students, all from a multilingual perspective.