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c. Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching d. Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
Assistant Program Program
The Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Program
(FLTA) Program, funded by the U.S. Department brings scholars and professionals from other
of State is a nine-month, non-degree program for countries to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities
young and early career English teachers at college that do not often host visiting scholars. Under this
level or educators in related fields. Fulbright FLTA program, interested U.S. institutions submit
participants have the opportunity to refine their proposals to invite scholars for one or both terms
teaching skills, increase their English language of the academic year to teach courses in area
proficiency and extend their knowledge of the studies, in inter-disciplinary programs that focus on
society and culture of the United States, while global issues, or in courses where participation of
strengthening the instruction of foreign languages the foreign scholar can provide a cross-cultural or
at U.S. colleges and universities. Selected Fulbright international perspective. The SIR program is
FLTA participants from India would be teaching especially appropriate for small liberal arts colleges,
assistants in Bengali, Hindi or Urdu classrooms at minority-serving institutions and community
select U.S. campuses. Placements range from large colleges in the U.S.
institutions and small liberal art schools to
How to Apply
community colleges and minority-serving This is a program for which U.S. institutions of
institutions. Fulbright FLTA candidates should be higher education apply. They can either name a
adaptable to different locations and situations. scholar or request recruitment of one through the
How to Apply Fulbright agencies worldwide. Therefore, Indian
scholars should draw the SIR program to the
The competition for 2018 is likely to be announced
sometime in Spring 2017. Application material and attention of their U.S. counterparts. Further
information is available on the CIES website
program details will be available on the USIEF
www.cies.org/sir.
website www.usief.org.in
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