Theatrical Production in French as a Foreign Language

Course Description

How can theatrical practices support learning French as a foreign language (FLE) and help students speak the language more effectively? How can you use your body and voice to improve French pronunciation? How can you work with the group to enhance each student’s learning? How do you bring a theatrical text to life through voice and movement? You’ll get to experience it for yourself! This first training module involves creating a theatrical production collaboratively with the group, which will be presented at the end of the course.

Working methods :

This training module will blend creative work with pedagogical reflection. During the collective creative process, you will gradually work together to develop a short theatrical piece based on a text by a Francophone author drawn from the contemporary dramatic repertoire. Structured teaching reflection sessions will also be offered to help you formalize the pedagogical progression of the activities you’ve explored and adapt the objectives to your specific teaching situations.

Training Objectives

Language Improvement

This training isn't something you do in front of or behind a screen—it's something you experience. Depending on the learning context, it's an opportunity for the trainee to:
  • to immerse oneself in the French language and perform it on stage
  • to improve one's own spoken French skills
  • to improve one's fluency, regardless of one's level of proficiency in the language being taught
  • experience a collective adventure among peers to forge links and bind together a community of teachers.

Teaching Improvement

By the end of this training, participants will have gained hands-on experience with creative teaching methods designed to develop their students’ oral skills, as well as theatrical techniques for staging a play with their classes. They will leave with:
  • tools for correcting pronunciation and working on diction, rhythm, and breath control
  • techniques for projecting your voice and playing with intonation, pauses, and silences
  • rituals to stimulate and motivate learning
  • Ideas for fun exercises to build group cohesion 
  • techniques and tips for bringing a play to life through voice and spatial arrangement with a large group of participants
  • techniques and strategies for memorizing a text and playing with emotions 
  • ideas for texts suitable for school theater, and an opening onto the contemporary dramatic repertoire for young people.

The instructor

Gaëlle Karcher
Teacher and Trainer of French as a Foreign Language (FLE) instructors at theUniversité Grenoble Alpes.
Specializes in oral communication pedagogy; holds an additional certification in theater from the French Ministry of Education; trained in scripted reading, clowning, and dramatic acting.
She has been leading theater workshops for international students for 15 years and trains teachers of French as a foreign language (FLE) in a sensitive approach to literature, the vocal delivery of poetic texts, phonetic correction through movement, and choral work.
Updated on 22, September 2026