These programs are designed to support the needs of French families wishing to continue native language instruction, as well as for American and foreign families seeking a bilingual learning environment for their English-speaking children.

- Mark White Elementary is the first public school in Texas to offer a French Dual Language Immersion Program for Pre-K and Kindergarten in addition to traditional instruction in English. Two French Immersion classes will be offered at both the Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten level for the 2016-2017 school year.  In addition, on a yearly basis, new grade levels will be added, starting with 1st grade in 2017-2018.

- The Village School will also be opening a French immersion program for students three-year old to fourth grade students.

- Eagles on the Rock Bilingual Academy is opening a French bilingual program for Pre-K and Kindergarten that follows the curriculum guidelines of the French Ministry of Education. The school is also currently looking for teachers for the new academic year.

EFGH (Educatin Française Greater Houston) classes will start September 17th. Assessment for newcomers will be held on September 10th. EFGH is also opening a new class for French as a second language (FLE) for 4 year olds.

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It’s well known that being bilingual has cognitive benefits: switching between two languages has been compared to mental gymnastics. But now, research suggests that mastering two languages can fundamentally alter the structure of your brain, rewiring it to work differently than the brains of those who only speak one language.

Ananda Devi is a novelist and scholar born in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius in 1957. Ananda Devi has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry, and was featured at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York in 2015. Her latest novel Eve out of her ruins is published by Deep Vellum in Dallas, Texas.
She will be speaking in:
• Austin, September 26th
• Houston, September 27th
• Dallas - Fort Worth, September 28th and 29th

The Book Department of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy works with FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), the Institut français and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote French and Francophone literature and to encourage English translations of French fiction and non-fiction. To that effect, it provides a range of grants and awards. It oversees three bi-annual programs concerning translations from French into English of works that have not yet been published in the United States. All these grants are awarded to fiction and non fiction translations (including comic books, poetry and digital books).

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