Deadline: 4 March 2011
Program Information:
This program provides fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Chinese in Mainland China and Egypt. The Intensive Summer Language Institutes are funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and administered by American Councils for International Education. The program is open to current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, as well as to students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages.
Applicants Must:
* Speak Arabic or Mandarin Chinese at the intermediate or advanced levels;
* Be currently teaching Arabic or Chinese as a Foreign Language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school or community college or be enrolled in a program leading to this career;
* Hold U.S. citizenship; and
* Be a non-native speaker of the target language (Arabic or Chinese).
American Councils defines a Native Speaker of Arabic or Chinese as a person who has finished high school (or equivalent) in an Arabic- or Chinese-speaking country. A Heritage Speaker is someone who speaks the target language at home, but has not spent an extended period of time in a country where the primary language is Arabic or Chinese. Heritage speakers may be eligible if they do not possess native fluency in the target language.
Program Benefits:
* Intensive language training
* Peer tutors
* Cultural enrichment activities and excursions
* Ten hours of graduate credit through Bryn Mawr College
* Pre-departure orientation
* Full-time resident director
* Room and board
* Books and shipping allowance
* Visa fees and travel insurance
* International and U.S. domestic airfare
Application deadline: March 4, 2011
Program length: 6 weeks; June 21-August 6, 2011
Downloadable Documents:
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For questions please contact isli@americancouncils.org