Awards, Scholarships and Competitions
Scholarships are offered to both primary and secondary teachers for German, Korean and Spanish for short term or long term stay in the target country. Costs of tuition and accommodation are usually met by the hosting government and the Department of Education and Training contributes to the costs of travel for government school teachers.
The Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships, which is a commonwealth program, also offers scholarships for teachers of Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese. Applications for the Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships 2009 have now closed. Further information can be downloaded from: www.endeavour.dest.gov.au/language_teachers_fellowships/
All language teachers are urged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the foreign government awards program. Exposure to the use of the language in a country where it is a normal means of communication is the best way of attaining truly high level skills in that language. The demands of essential, every day interaction in another language provide the crucial broadening and deepening of language competencies that upper-level skills require.
For more information on the scholarships available, click on the links for the individual languages.
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