Intensive Summer Language Institute (ISLI)

Eligibility:

- Speak Mandarin Chinese at the intermediate or advanced levels
- Be currently teaching 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
- Be a non-native speaker of Chinese

Length:

6 weeks; June 18 through August 3, 2013

Deadline:

February 11, 2013

This program provides fully funded fellowships for non-native speakers of Chinese who are teaching Chinese to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Chinese in Changchun, China. Fellowships are available to current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Mandarin Chinese, as well as to students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach Mandarin. The ISLI program is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education.

Read more and apply here.

Program Resources

• News