International programs of state support for professional development of foreign language teachers in France

The need to reform the educational system of Ukraine, the inconsistency of the modern teacher with the needs of society, the organization of the New Ukrainian School initiate appeals to foreign experience in order to implement its main features in Ukraine. The European integration vector of our country's development determines the priority of foreign language learning and new approaches to the professional development of foreign philology specialists in secondary education. In the article we analyze the existing systems of advanced training of foreign language teachers in France on the one hand, as well as the professional development of French language teachers as a foreign language, on the other hand, under conditions of state support. The results of the study revealed that in France, significant changes take place in secondary and postgraduate institutions. In the era of the Council of Europe's advocacy of plurinism, the study and teaching of modern live languages, including French as a foreign language, is of particular importance, the promotion of which in the world is one of the strategic components of this country's language policy. The French Government encourages the involvement of foreign language teachers in the professional development, which is one of the important ways to develop and expand international mobility programs and projects. Proposed and urgently recommended are: the Jules Verne Program; the training program in Germany for teachers of history and geography; Franco-German exchange of elementary school teachers; post-graduate exchanges for elementary school teachers with Quebec; professional stay for teachers of modern languages and second-level non-linguistic subjects in Germany, Austria, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom; courses in linguistic, pedagogical and cultural development abroad for first and second grade teachers of German, English, Italian and Spanish; Codofil program: visiting first and second year French as a foreign language teachers (FLE) in Louisiana; improvement centers for technical training abroad. Distance education and its main provider in the field of French as a foreign language, the National Center for Distance Education (CNED), is a partner of institutions for the organization of professional practice abroad in the framework of international exchanges. We consider the prospect to be in finding ways to implement the French experience in state support for professional development programs for the foreign language teachers in Ukraine.