Teaching pronunciation to French-speakers

Programme objectives

Understand the key areas of pronunciation that French-speakers need to work on

Learn techniques for improving pronunciation

Use and implement different activities to make pronunciation part of your everyday training

Catherine's training includes lots of practical advice and tips to use straightaway in your training sessions. Very down to earth about the difficulties our students have and about setting achievable goals with our students.

Jen, English language trainer

Great course as always! Many helpful points were raised and solutions presented.

Helen, ESL Trainer

★★★★★

★★★★★

• What's important to understand about pronunciation for intelligibility

• The link between pronunciation and comprehension

• Bringing pronunciation into your everyday lessons

• The key areas French-speakers need to work on

• Specific sounds and how to improve them

• Word and sentence stress and ideas to work on it

• Connected speech for better pronunciation

• Lots of activities

Course content

​​To sign up, first complete this form and we'll send you any documents you need for FIFPL funding, as well as a Stripe link (Payment by credit or debit card.) Email us if you have any other questions.

Course information

• 3.5h of interactive group online workshop (Zoom) with Catherine

• You'll come away with practical ideas that you can implement immediately

• This course is aimed at anyone who teaches adults

• Cost is 100€ net de taxe. You can use your FIFPL fund to have the training paid for, but tfor this you'll need to do at least 7h of training, which is two modules.

• If you would like to request FIFPL funding, contact us to get the programme and contract that you'll need to make the funding request.

• After the training, you'll receive an attestation that you can give to your place of work to show you have been doing professional development.

About your trainer, Catherine

Catherine has been teaching adults for 25 years. She spent 7 years working for the British Council in Japan and Singapore as a teacher and teacher trainer before coming to Paris, where she had her own corporate training business as well as working in several grandes écoles. Since moving to Grasse in 2014, she has been running her training company, A Star Formation.

She has a Masters in Linguistics and the Trinity College certificate and diploma in TESOL. She is also a certified Neurolanguage® Coach and has done many different professional development programmes including intercultural communication trainer, neuroscience of communication, neuromarketing, language coaching and collective intelligence.