For: Young Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
What: The opportunity to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American cultures and customs while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at colleges and universities in the United States.
Appplication Deadline: April 30 2013
The Fulbright FLTA Program provides young teachers of English as a Foreign Language the opportunity to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American cultures and customs while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at colleges and universities in the United States.
Program Length
One Academic Year
Eligibility and Application Overview
To participate in the Fulbright Foreign Languate Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA), the applicant must:
- have completed undergraduate education and hold a degree equivalent to a bachelor’s degree.
Application details and grant terms for the Fulbright Program vary by country of citizenship and program. Potential applicants should consult individual country pages for program availability and contact information or see a list of current programs.
In the 50 countries with a Fulbright Commission, applicants must meet citizenship requirements as defined by the binational agreement. In countries where the program is administered by the U.S. Embassy, applicants must be a citizen, national, or permanent resident qualified to hold a valid passport issued by that country.
Applicants cannot hold citizenship in a partner country and U.S. citizenship/permanent residency.
See contact information on the participating country pages for specific eligibility requirements and limits on numbers of awards.
Application details and grant terms for the Fulbright Program vary by country of citizenship and program. Potential applicants should consult individual country pages for program availability and contact information or see a list of current programs.
The Fulbright Program’s application process is lengthy and rigorous, and prospective applicants are encouraged to consider carefully their intentions, goals, future plans and prospective projects before applying for a Fulbright grant. The competition for Fulbright Program grants is merit-based. Candidates are selected based on a variety of factors, that may include (but are not limited to):
- academic qualifications,
- project feasibility,
- personal leadership ability,
- available grant funds.
Fulbright operates on a yearly application cycle, which generally (but not in all cases) opens approximately 15 months before the anticipated start of the grant with a deadline approximately 11 or 12 months before the grant’s start date.
Because a variety of cooperating agencies, binational Commissions and U.S. Embassies administer the Fulbright Program in the participating countries, this site neither provides nor accepts applications directly.
Eligible Countries from Africa for the The Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant
North Africa
Sub Saharan Africa
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Congo, Republic of the
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Institute of International Education
Attn: FLTA Program
809 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Fax: +1 (212) 984-5578
General E-mail: flta@iie.org
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[…] The Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program is a nine month non-degree course funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. The objective of the program is to strengthen foreign language instruction at U.S. colleges, universities, and some high schools, while providing future teachers from abroad the opportunity to refine their skills, increase their English language proficiency, and expand their knowledge of U.S. society and culture. FLTA fellows must return to their home countries upon completion of their programs to teach English at the secondary or university level. All applications must meet the following criteria: […]