English Language Fellow Program
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The English Language Fellow Program provides American professional expertise in teaching English as a foreign language by sending American experts on ten-month fellowships to overseas academic institutions to advance the Department's mutual understanding objectives; enhance English teaching capacity overseas in order to provide foreign teachers and students with the communications skills they will need to participate in the global economy; improve foreign teachers' and students' access to diverse perspectives on a broad variety of issues; and give foreign teachers and students information that will enable them better understand and convey concepts about American values, democratic representative government, free enterprise, and the rule of law.
Since the events of September 11, 2001, the English Language Fellow Program has become a major public diplomacy tool for combating terrorism and democracy building. More than 400 English language professionals have conducted programs in over 80 countries. Some of the projects are:
EFL Classroom Teaching
Teacher Training
In-Service and Pre-Service Training
Curriculum Development
Workshop and Seminar Design
Testing
Program Evaluation
Needs Assessment
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
As appropriate in the institutions where the Fellows work, they may introduce contemporary issues (civic and environmental education, health and current events). They model and demonstrative EFL classroom practices that help create thoughtful and responsible behavior in students (critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, etc.).
Georgetown University, Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED) will conduct recruitment for the English Language Program for academic year 2006-2007. Visit CIED's website http://elf.georgetown.edu for additional program and recruitment information.