French Language Teaching Assistant Program — Professional Role

The China Education Association for International Exchange runs this exchange with France Éducation international and the cultural and education cooperation department of the French Embassy in China. It rests on a 2014 agreement between the Chinese and French education ministries to swap language teaching assistants.

Each year the French side sends French language assistants into Chinese schools and universities, and CEAIE selects Chinese graduates to support Chinese teaching in French schools. CEAIE gives the standing scale as 14 French assistants in China and 45 Chinese graduates in France; the 2024–25 cohort was 16 and 55.

About 900 assistants have taken part since 2014, across more than 100 schools. Recent placements sat in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and Shandong in China, and in Versailles, Marseille and La Réunion in France.

Benefits & funding

Chinese assistants in France earn about €1,010.67 a month before tax and are covered by French medical insurance for the placement.
The placement in France runs about seven months, from October to April.
Housing and return flights are the assistant’s own cost.
Chinese applicants pay a 500 RMB application fee, and 5,500 RMB more once they are accepted.
Pay and contract terms for the French assistants placed in China sit in the France Éducation international destination sheet for China.

Eligibility

To teach Chinese in France: Chinese nationality, Chinese as a first language, and residence in mainland China.
To teach Chinese in France: aged 20 to 30, in the fourth year of a bachelor’s degree or enrolled in postgraduate study, and holding a bachelor’s degree or higher before departure.
To teach Chinese in France: French at CEFR B1 or above; applicants from teaching-Chinese-as-a-foreign-language or education backgrounds are given priority.
To assist French teaching in China: French nationality, which France Éducation international notes some destinations widen to other nationalities, and French as a first language.
To assist French teaching in China: aged 20 to 35 on 31 December of the year the post starts, most of secondary school completed in a French institution, and enrolment at a French higher-education institution.
To assist French teaching in China: the diploma and language level set in the France Éducation international destination sheet for China.

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Eligible nationalities
China · France
Education required
Bachelor Enrolled · Bachelor · Master Enrolled
Age requirement
≥ 20 yrs

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Application process

1
To assist French teaching in China, apply on the France Éducation international ADELE platform; the 2026–27 campaign opened on 6 January 2026.
2
Ask a teacher to assess your motivation and language level inside ADELE, which the file needs before it can be validated.
3
France Éducation international and the receiving institutions decide the outcome, placing each applicant on a main list, a supplementary list, or a refusal.
4
To teach Chinese in France, submit through your university’s international office, which forwards the file to CEAIE; the 2025–26 round closed on 21 March 2025.
5
Pay the 500 RMB application fee before that cutoff, then the 5,500 RMB program fee after acceptance.

Program timeline

Cutoff of the most recent published selection round for Chinese assistants (2025–26)
Mar 21, 2025
France Éducation international opens the 2026–27 assistant campaign on ADELE
Jan 6, 2026
Assistants take up their posts
October
The seven-month placements in France end
April