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Documentary resources available for learning French as a foreign language

The Common Documentation Service (SCD) of the University of Paris Nanterre offers collections dedicated to French as a foreign language (FLE) in the university library and in the associated library of Lettres et sciences du langage..

Espaces

The Bibliothèque universitaire offers 7000 m² of premises dedicated to the reception of users: 5 disciplinary reading rooms (including the Literature and Languages Department where most of the FLE collections are located) and 1 room dedicated to digital technology (the Pixel) It is widely equipped with rooms for group work that can be reserved.
It is open all year round (except for one week at the end of the year and four weeks in the summer) from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All Paris Nanterre students are automatically registered and can borrow documents for 2 to 4 weeks depending on their level of study or consult the online resources to which the SCD subscribes. The BU offers various additional services: access to Wifi and fixed computers in the reading rooms, photocopying, printing and scanning services, on-site loan of computers and tablets, home loan of e-readers, interlibrary loan.

Ressources

French learning manuals are available in the Languages and Literatures room at 804.0(07): they may be accompanied by audio CDs or DVDs.
Preparations for language tests (such as DELF, DALF, Certificat Voltaire) are available in file 804.0(02).
Unilingual French and bilingual dictionaries for all languages taught at the university are available for loan (some also for rarer languages: Hungarian, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, etc.). The 9th and last edition of the dictionary of the Académie Française published in 2019 is also available online on their site, as is the dictionary of the Francophonies.

Compiled by the SCD's Literature Department, in conjunction with FLE teachers, there is a selection of literary works accessible to B1 to B2 level allophones via a link on the language sciences page.
The didactics of FLE can be found in the education sciences collection in the social sciences room at number 372.880.

The video library and its large catalog of fictional works with French subtitles (some DVDs in French with audio description which can be used for learning French) can also be a good resource for language learning. In the same way, the comic book section is an interesting entry point for more playful learning.

Formations

The SCD trains FETE students in documentary research in collaboration with the department's teachers. They are offered a visit and training on the catalog as well as a workshop on the discovery of French literature (for levels B1 and B2), during which they have to choose a book which they will report on in class. These works are taken from the bibliography developed with the teachers.

La bibliothèque d'UFR et science du langage

The library of the UFR PHILLIA (Bât. Ricoeur), Lettres et sciences du langage, offers a small collection of books dedicated to FLE. It offers about thirty places in a space of 180 m² near the classrooms.