Trained at the Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques, Dr. Hind Louali founded Ecole Jean-Jacques Rousseau (the French School of Austin) in 2005. As the director of the school, Dr. Hind Louali, oversees a specialized language immersion program that emphasizes language, math, arts, and music for preschool through eighth-grade students.
The French School of Austin includes in its curriculum a mandatory French performing arts program, designed to reinforce French fluency and cultural education. Recent research shows the value of performing arts to learning a second language and related cognitive skills. Performing arts offer students the opportunity to express an idea using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic sensory information. Once they have developed this skill, students can more easily map concepts into more abstract forms such as oral or written language.
A 2014 study found that among second language learners, lessons that included drama components contributed to more linguistically specific and productive language. Additionally, teachers and students were more engaged with the multi-sensory learning process.
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