To enhance student engagement in a French foreign language course, two active learning methods were combined: Flipped learning and gamification. This study aimed to explore the efficiency of these teaching methods in a foreign language course with beginner learners and to assess student's perception of the experience. A total of 215 students were enrolled in this university elective course. All sections were taught by the same instructor during one semester. All students experienced both the flipped learning methodology and a traditional teaching approach. The results indicate that students' scores in the gamified quizzes were better when they prepared in advance for the sessions and had a flipped learning session. Moreover, in a questionnaire that was completed at the end of the term, students reported that they preferred the flipped learning sessions because such sessions helped them to better understand and memorize the textual material. Students also appreciated the use of gamification tools to help them learn with interest.

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Arabic and French are fluently spoken in Tunisia. However, the position of French language is variable. In fact, it isn’t uniformly spoken by all the people. This language is more present in the capital and in the big towns (in urban area) and may be absent in other towns (specially in the rural area). Children learn first Tunisian Arabic. At school, they learn the literal Arabic (since the first year school), then they start learning French from the third year of primary school. The variable position of French language may influence the acquisition process of this language. We propose to analyse some narrative productions of 10 pupils selected in two schools (one in a urban area, another in a rural area) in order to observe the development of French language. We pay a particular attention to the narrative structure and the time expression in these productions.