When Nathalie Burguet first left her home in Dordogne to teach French to Louisiana schoolkids in the early-to-mid-1990s, the lessons relied largely on textbooks and rote grammar. Three decades later, ...

The French language is one of the most poetic of languages. You only have to leaf through a book of poetry or listen to a classic song to understand the evocative power of the French lexicon. For ...

Schools across Louisiana will welcome 80 teachers from around the world into their classrooms in the upcoming school year. The teachers, who come from France, Belgium, Canada, Senegal, Cameroon, ...

France will continue sending internationally recruited teachers to work in immersion schools across Louisiana. For decades, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) has had ...

Despite the achievements of the Njogera Français Initiative, educators observe that there are still barriers that continue to ...

From French to Spanish, creators are remixing her slow, sing-song style for families raising multilingual kids.

Mimi Masson receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is affiliated with the University of Toronto, Canadian Parents for French and Ontario Multilingual Education.

NEW ORLEANS — The number of French speakers in Louisiana has fallen over the decades. Between 1921 to 1974, the Louisiana Constitution banned French as the primary language taught in public schools, ...