A New Français Interactif

Updates and Publishing Timeline

Français interactif is getting an update!

Twenty years after its inception, a team of UT-Austin French faculty led by Dr. Morgane Haesen, along with graduate and undergraduate students, and COERLL‘s support, are updating FI to ensure another twenty years of continued high-quality, accessible, and free French language education!

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Curriculum components will eventually include updated:

• Website platform on Pressbooks
  • Compliant with the 2026 Digital Accessibility Policy (as of September 2026)
• Vocabulary pages
  • Featuring inclusive spelling
  • Individual audio recordings
  • “Focus on spelling/pronunciation” interactive activities
  • Integrated and interactive flashcards
• Integrated and revised grammar explanations (from Tex’s French Grammar)
  • With revised and integrated “Testez-Vous” interactive activities
• Videos filmed abroad (with accompanying activities)
• “Tex & friends”: new characters and storyline
• Robust vocabulary practice activities
  • Based on the former FI textbook/PDFs
• Robust grammar practice activities
  • Based on the former FI textbook/PDFs and will include the “Testez-Vous” and “Texercices” activities from Tex’s French Grammar
• Educator resources
  • Scope and sequence documents
  • Pedagogical Approach documents
  • Sample syllabi
  • LMS integration / textbook export instructions
  • Audio and video files
  • Lesson plans and in-class activities (available upon request to verified educators via a personalized URL)
  • Assessments (available upon request to verified educators via a personalized URL)

Timeline

This curriculum update consists of work beyond faculty’s regular coursework and responsibilities. As such, the curriculum and its various components will be published in several phases over the next few years.

This timeline is subject to change.

Fall 2026

• Chapters 1-6 (former chapters 0-7)
  • New website platform on Pressbooks
  • Vocabulary pages (without robust practice activities)
  • Integrated and revised grammar explanations
• (Chapters 7-12 may appear/disappear sporadically in fall 2026, but these will not be published permanently until spring 2027. Do NOT use Ch. 7-12 in fall 2026 even if they appear).

Spring 2027

• Chapters 7-12 (former chapters 8-13)
  • New website platform on Pressbooks
  • Vocabulary pages (without robust practice activities)
  • Integrated and revised grammar explanations (from Tex’s French Grammar)

Fall 2027

• Chapters 1-6
  • New videos filmed abroad (with accompanying activities)
  • “Tex & friends”: new characters and storylines
  • Robust vocabulary practice activities
  • Robust grammar practice activities
  • Educator resources
• Chapters 7-12
  • “Tex & friends”: new characters and storylines

Spring 2028

• Chapters 7-12
  • New videos filmed abroad (with accompanying activities)
  • Robust vocabulary practice activities
  • Robust grammar practice activities
  • Educator resources
• Chapters 1-12
  • Student proficiency testing to ensure that student learning outcomes are met

Summer 2028

• Call for reviewers
• Final revisions

Fall 2028

• Formal launch and dissemination of the textbook

Spring 2029

• Textbook available for purchase in print format