Language Training Grant Details
- Deadline: January 15, 2010
- Amount: up to $10,000
- Period: Summer 2011
The purpose of these grants is to provide summer language training for graduate students and other researchers in East European Studies who cannot obtain the language instruction they need during the academic year.
Introductory and Intermediate Level Courses
ACLS invites U.S. institutions of higher education to apply for grants to support intensive summer programs in Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, or Slovene. Course instruction should be so designed that it covers the basic structures of the language at either the introductory or intermediate level in the summer equivalent of two full academic-year semesters.
Advanced-Mastery Level Courses
ACLS invites U.S. institutions of higher education to apply for grants to support intensive summer courses in professional skills such as translation of texts, interpretation of speech, editing, and working with non-standard dialects. Courses should be designed for those who have already attained at least an intermediate level of language proficiency, either as heritage speakers or as a result of instruction. In view of the special effort required for design and recruitment of advanced-mastery courses, ACLS will provide a one-time additional payment of $5,000 to every institution offering its first advanced-mastery course.
For further information, please contact Eszter Csicsai, Program Assistant for International Programs.