Langues

Organisation

• Director: claire.lambard [at] ens-paris-saclay.fr (Claire LAMBARD)
• 6 permanent lecturers and teacher-researchers, one agrégée préparatrice, two ATERs and one lecturer.

The language department is organised into three divisions:

• Anglicists: initial training for students in the department
• LANSAD and language centre: for students from other departments and school staff
• Continuing education and English courses: for continuing education students and those with specific needs.

Training

Anglicists

The Languages Department trains students to a very high level in English, recruited by competitive examination or on the basis of their academic record. The course covers a wide range of subjects (literature, literary translation, American and British civilisation, specialised English, linguistics, corpus linguistics, terminology, oral English) and lasts three or four years, leading to a Master 2 in research.
Almost all students take the agrégation externe d'anglais (option civilisation or linguistics) during their course.
Anglicists trained by the Department are particularly well prepared to enter teaching environments where specialised English is at the heart of the language training system (grandes écoles, IUT, language courses for specialists in other disciplines in universities).

• Bachelor's degree in English studies, specialised English course, in partnership with Université Paris Diderot
• Research Master's in Foreign and Regional Languages, Literatures and Civilisations (Specialised English), M1 and M2 jointly with Université Paris Diderot (M1 year in an English-speaking country)
• Preparation for the agrégation extern d'anglais (civilisation and linguistics options) combined with a Master 2 FESup (teacher training in higher education).

Main subjects taught in the first and second years of study

• Specialised English (discourse analysis, English didactics, terminology, corpus analysis)
• General English linguistics
• Literary translation
• Literature and civilisation of the English-speaking world
• Spoken English

LANSAD and language centre

The Languages Department runs LANSAD (languages for specialists in other disciplines) courses for other departments. These courses include preparation for the Cambridge (Advanced) diplomas, as well as modules specific to each discipline (for example, English scientific writing courses for doctoral students in the Doctoral Studies department).

Evening courses are offered to ENS Paris-Saclay students and staff at the language centre: English, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, French as a foreign language and, in partnership with ESTP, Arabic, Japanese and Portuguese.

Continuing education and English courses

In agreement with the Continuing Education Service of ENS Paris-Saclay, the Language Department offers English courses tailored to specific needs (written and oral scientific English, techniques of expression for teaching a subject in English).

Admission

Competitive entrance exam for 1st year

After a preparatory class for the grandes écoles (BEL English), competitive entrance exams give students the status of "normalien-ne-élève". Salaried during their studies, Normalien-ne-s-élèves are obliged to succeed and are subject to a ten-year commitment.

• BEL English competitive entrance examination

2nd year entrance exam

For direct entry into the 2nd year of the ENS Paris Saclay diploma, a competitive entrance examination for the Master's programme, which provides three years of paid study.

• 2nd year competitive entrance exam English

Application and interview

Candidates are recruited on the basis of their academic record, which gives them the status of "normalien-ne-étudiant-e". This status offers the same training and pedagogical support as for students, except that they are not remunerated during their studies and are therefore not subject to the ten-year commitment.

• Admission is by application.

Partnerships

• Paris Diderot University