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Professional Development for Teachers

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Asian Studies - Grants and Fellowships
This page, maintained by the Association for Asian Studies, has an extensive list of grants and fellowships available to language professionals interested in Asian Studies
Chinese Language Teachers Association
Awards open for competition to Chinese Language Teachers and Researchers.
* Cheng & Tsui professional Development Award
* Jiede Empirical Research Grant for Chinese Pedagogy / Chinese Applied Linguistics
* Walton Presentation Prize
DAAD Scholarships
Funding Opportunities for German Language Teachers and Researchers
Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
U.S. Department of State program. The Classroom Teacher Programs provides opportunities for teachers to participate in direct exchanges of positions with colleagues from other countries for a semester or a year.
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Development and Research Grants

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Foreign Language Assistance Program
This program by the U.S. Department of Education provides grants to LEAs to establish, improve, or expand innovative foreign language programs for elementary and secondary school students.
Deadline: 2009 Awardees announced. New application deadline not set.
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation funds research on multiple areas of human language development and use including, but not limited to, syntax, semantics, phonetics, phonology, psychological processes, development of linguistic capacities, social and cultural factors in language use.
The Spencer Foundation
The Foundation is intended to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. It offers grant support for Research, Fellowship Awards, and Institutional Initiatives.
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Study and Travel for Students

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American Councils for International Education
The American Councils administers a variety of cultural exchange, study abroad, and research programs to promote mutual understanding between the US and Eurasia, Southeast Europe, and South Asia.
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships for Advanced Asian Study
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships fund a year of advanced study of an Asian language in Asia for American citizens and permanent residents of the United States who have a college degree and who plan to use an Asian language in their careers. Please refer to our language grant main page for grant guidelines and eligibility requirements. We also recommend our FAQ page, which has answers to many common questions. Application forms are printed from this website. For 2010 grants, study must start between June 2010 and May 2011.
Deadline:Tuesday, December 30, 2009
Critical Scholarships for Intensive Language Institutes
U.S. Department of State; administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in eleven critical need foreign languages (Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish, Urdu, Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Russian.)
Deadline: December 18, 2009
Jacob K. Javits (JKJ) Fellowship Program
U.S. department of Education. The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program offers fellowships to eligible graduate students who want to pursue studies in specific fields, including less commonly taught languages (such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hindi, Urdu, Dari, Farsi, Tajiki, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani/Azeri, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, and Uzbek).
Annual competition with applications available usually mid-August.
Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace
Middlebury College grants 100 merit-based, full scholarships for Intensive Language Study at its Summer Language Schools in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese and Russian.
Deadline: February 1, 2010.

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