About Us

French.ie is a portal site created by and for French teachers in Ireland and is part of the broader Scoilnet portal.

The site aims to provide resource material for teachers and the opportunity to consult pedagogical material online.

The main feature of the site is the Resource Finder which is designed to get the reader directly to the web resources they require. Readers choose the level, skill and theme they plan to cover in class and they find specific webpages that have been selected and catalogued by practising teachers of French.

All material is presented within an environment that includes a forum and newsletter supporting the teaching of French in Ireland. It offers an ideal opportunity to expand and extend the use of ICT in language teaching.

The development of the site was initiated by the French Embassy in Ireland and is a product of collaboration between the French Embassy, The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) and the Education Department in NUI Maynooth.

An initial consultative committee involved representatives from the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), DES Post Primary Inspectorate, French Teachers Association, Dublin City University, University of Limerick, and Waterford Institute of Technology.