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American Institute of Indian StudiesAdvanced Language Programs in India Project Type: Long-Term Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Host Country: India Amount of Time in Country: 36 weeks Number of Participants: 32 Project Director: Professor Rebecca Manring, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IA 47405, E-mail: aiis@uchicago.edu Abstract: The objective of this proposal is to continue and further strengthen the Advanced Language Programs in India (ALPI), which provide intensive advanced-level training in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, and other modern languages of India for a period of one year. These programs are run by the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), a consortium of eighty-six U.S. colleges and universities that have significant programs on India and other South Asian countries. Through its junior and senior research fellowship programs, its many services to American scholars working in India and to U.S. study abroad programs, its two research archives, and its language centers, the AIIS enjoys wide recognition as the pre-eminent institution promoting informed knowledge of the Indian Subcontinent in the United States. This application meets Competitive Preference Priority 3 established by the U.S. Department of Education as the AIIS ALPI programs provide superb advanced-level immersion training in ten out of the 78 languages included on the Department of Education’s list of Less Commonly Taught Languages, and offer the only well-established programs for advanced immersion study in South Asian languages that are rarely taught in the U.S., including Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. The fellowships offered with funding from GPA would provide maintenance stipends and program costs for about 36 language fellows (and for some round-trip travel to India) who have had a minimum of two prior years of study in the target language. Building on nearly five decades of experience and with partial support from previous Fulbright GPA awards, the AIIS has created a unique infrastructure of language training centers and has assembled a cohort of gifted instructors who are regularly trained in current Second Language Acquisition methodology. ALPI language fellowship recipients are selected through a national competition. Successful applicants plan on academic careers which require proficiency in modern foreign languages or area studies, or plan careers in government service or in the public health, private, and NGO (nongovernmental organization) sectors. Each ALPI language is taught through an intensive immersion approach, in a well-equipped center located in a city in which the target language predominates. Rigorous classroom instruction is supplemented by field trips, community and independent study projects, home-stay accommodations with native speaker families, and a wide range of cultural and social activities designed to maximize the immersion experience. Periodic evaluations by students and teachers, proficiency-based testing, and site visits by language pedagogy specialists and program officers monitor students’ progress and enable the fine-tuning of instruction. An annual workshop for the teaching staff emphasizes innovative approaches to language teaching and assessment, including audiovisual and computer-based instructional materials. The success of these methods is demonstrated by generations of AIIS-trained teachers and other area specialists, who represent a national pool of expertise that enhances our nation’s security as well as its economic, political, and cultural relations with India, and that promotes intercultural understanding within the United States. The relatively low cost of living in India and careful management of finances by AIIS insures a highly cost-effective use of the requested GPA funds, which provide only a portion of the total expense of running the ALPI. American Research Institute in TurkeyARIT Summer Fellowships for Intensive Advanced Turkish at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Project Type: Long-Term Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Training Host Country: Turkey Amount of Time in Country: 24 weeks Number of Participants: 18 Project Director: Dr. Sylvia W. Önder, Division of Eastern Mediterranean Languages, 210 Poulton Hall, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057, onders@georgetown.edu, (202) 687-6175 Abstract: Under this project, we seek to enable university students and faculty to study advanced Turkish through an intensive summer language program utilizing the resources and facilities of Boğaziçi University (BU) in Istanbul, Turkey. This program was initiated by the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) in 1982 and is designed to provide the equivalent of a full academic year course in advanced Turkish. Fellows, recruited nationwide, benefit from direct and constant exposure to the language and culture in its native setting, including multiple instructors in daily classroom hours of Grammar, Reading, Speaking, and Writing, along with laboratory exercises, work with native-speaker teaching assistants, and a full program of Turkish films and lectures. USED grant funds would be used to support the advanced level language training of eligible undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty. As a US and NATO ally connected to Europe, Eurasia, and the Middle East, Turkey plays an important economic, political, and strategic role in the region. Turkish language programs in the US have not yet been able to create stable programs that consistently allow students to reach the advanced levels. The BU program has proven to be an effective means of addressing this shortcoming by training students to proficiency levels that can be maintained and improved independently. The ARIT Summer Fellowship supports Middle East, Central Asian, and European Language and Area Studies Centers in the United States in attaining their primary objectives, that is, to prepare American students to pursue various careers related to the region. The program aids scholars from fields such as Anthropology, Economics, History, International Relations, Islamic Studies, and Linguistics while forging ties between the American and Turkish academic communities. Turkish has long been a research language useful to scholars of Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Kurdish and other minority groups in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey – as well as a link to the Turkic languages of Eurasia – but has more recently become an important research language for scholars of Arab Studies, Migrant and Refugee Studies, and other emerging regional topics. Under the directorship of Dr. Sylvia Önder, 66 fellows have been supported in the 2013-2016 grant period. The purpose of this application is to secure support for this fellowship program for the next year. The project would again be administered jointly by ARIT and the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT), with administrative and program director support from Georgetown University. This project meets the Competitive Preference Priority 3: Substantive Training and Thematic Focus on Priority Languages: Turkish. Directory: programs -> iegpsgpa programs -> Summaries of Relevant Studies Reviewed by the Department That Meet the Standard for Moderate Evidence of Effectiveness programs -> Project Scoring Template Pre-Construction Phase New Core/Branch Campus Projects programs -> University of Hawai‘i Maui College dental assisting program review october 21, 2013 programs -> Invitation for Bid Calact/mbta for Standard Floor and Low Floor Rural Duty Vehicles ifb no. 12-03 November 14, 2012 programs -> Schedule of Events for 2014-2015 Camp Trotter vts & Golf June 20-22, 2014 programs -> Interpreting Weather Satellite Data Introduction programs -> Canadian Forces (CF) programs -> China News in Brief August, 2011 programs -> Kerry B. Dumbaugh iegpsgpa -> Table of Contents Plan of Operation 1 Download 153.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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