grant announcement

[David J Birnbaum]

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Grants for
INSTRUCTION in EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
1999-2000 competition

The ACLS will offer grants of up to $10,000 to U.S. institutions to support
beginning or intermediate courses providing intensive instruction in the
East European languages in year 2000 summer programs in the United States.
Support will be available for Albanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian,
Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, or Slovene.  The
intent of this program is to assure the availability of elementary
instruction in all of these languages and of intermediate instruction in
the more commonly taught of them.  Ten or more awards may be made, and a
single school may apply for several awards.

The deadline for the receipt of completed applications is December 15,
1999.  Send completed applications to:  Office of Fellowships and Grants,
ACLS, 228 East 45 Street, New York, NY 10017-3398.  There are no
application forms.

To apply, a proposal should be submitted not exceeding five typed,
double-spaced, 8½ x 11" pages, plus short, teaching c.v.'s of the proposed
instructors, and a detailed budget describing how the award will be used.
Non-xeroxable brochures, catalogues, or bound material should not be
included.  Proposals must be submitted by mail; they will not be accepted
by fax, e-mail, or other electronic means.

The in-struction should be offered in an intensive course lasting 6-8
weeks.  It should be designed to prepare the students to do further work on
their own after returning to their home institutions and also to activate
their use of the language when they go abroad to an area where it is
spo-ken.  The course should therefore cover all of the basic structures of
the language, emphasize reading ability, and include conversational skills.
Emphasis should be given to attaining usable profi-ciency in the language
as quickly as possible.  Courses should provide at least 3-4 contact hours
of language instruction, five days per week.  Instructors should have
appropriate aca-demic cre-dentials and demonstrated teaching skills
Applications should describe proposed teaching meth-ods and materials,
listing the texts and other materials to be used, and should es-timate and
cate-gorize enrollment by numbers of graduate students, undergraduates,
etc.  A short budget for the course, listing expected sources of income and
projected expenses should be included.

Grants are primarily intended to support faculty salaries.  Support may
also be requested for in-structional materials and other expenses, but not
for university overhead.  Supported programs must waive tuition for
graduate students specializing in East European studies in any discipline.