Instituted in 2014 by the NFMLTA and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), this grant supports graduate student research in the fields of applied linguistics and language education with small grants focused on the teaching and learning of less commonly taught languages (all languages except English, Spanish, French, and German). The grants provide resources at any stage of dissertation writing, e.g., data gathering, data transcription, data analysis, or write-up of the findings.
FMLTA/MLJ Learning and Teaching Priorities Grants
Initiated in 2019, this grant offers one $7000 conference panel grant or workshop organization and three $1000 webinar grants to address learning and teaching priorities. While any topic will be considered, ideas related to improving second-language learning and teaching by introducing practical solutions to concrete problems are encouraged and applicants should focus on the following issues:
- Integrating various student populations into a learning community
- Incorporating intercultural competency into language classes and assessing intercultural competency
- Forms of formative and summative assessment
- Cross-university course sharing
- Teaching across the curriculum
- Creating pathways for long-term language learning across the K-16 spectrum
- Hybridizing language courses
- Less common teaching and learning contexts (community teaching, distributed teaching, tutoring, etc.)
- Language learning for special purposes
- Immersion component in language programs
- Language study abroad
- Learning and teaching technology
- World language curriculum development
- Developing Standards for Less Commonly Taught Languages
- Developing Learning Plans for Language Instruction