This text gives an introduction to the Langlands correspondence for function fields and in particular to some recent works in this subject. We begin with a short historical account (all notions used below are recalled in the text).The Langlands correspondence [Lan70] is a conjecture of utmost importance, concerning global fields, i.e. number fields and function fields. Many excellent surveys are available, for example [Gel84,Bum97,BeGe03,Tay04,Fre07,Art14]. The Langlands correspondence belongs to a huge system of conjectures (Langlands functoriality, Grothendieck's vision of motives, special values of L-functions, Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture, generalized Riemann hypothesis). This system has a remarkable deepness and logical coherence and many cases of these conjectures have already been established. Moreover the Langlands correspondence over function fields admits a geometrization, the "geometric Langlands program", which is related to conformal field theory in Theoretical Physics.Let G be a connected reductive group over a global field F . For the sake of simplicity we assume G is split.The Langlands correspondence relates two fundamental objects, of very different nature, whose definition will be recalled later,