Scholarship for Arabic or Chinese Heritage Speakers at the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy

Here's an interesting opportunity. Please pass this along to any grade 7 - 12 HL speakers of Arabic or Chinese you know!

Scholarship for Arabic or Chinese Heritage Speakers at the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy

The Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy (MMLA) has been awarded funding to support a limited number of scholarships for heritage speakers of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese. Broadly speaking, heritage speakers are students from families with an Arabic or Chinese heritage, but who lack formal education in the language.

"STARTALK" is one of the projects of a US government funded effort to expand foreign language education in under-taught critical languages by supporting new and existing programs for students, kindergarten through university, in several targeted languages including Mandarin Chinese and Arabic.

To be considered for a STARTALK partial scholarship at the Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy an applicant must meet these criteria:

• Entering grade 7 through grade 12
• Parents or grandparents speak
either Arabic or Mandarin Chinese
• Have knowledge of the culture and
traditions associated with the heritage language
• Have a willingness to
share that cultural knowledge with others studying the language
• Express a
sincere desire to develop stronger skills in either Arabic or Chinese
• Demonstrate financial need

Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy

The Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy extends the renowned Middlebury Language School summer immersion to middle and high school students for four weeks in a summer camp setting. See more at http://www.mmla.middlebury.edu/

Located at sites in California, Vermont and Massachusetts, MMLA combines rigorous and effective language education with summer camp activities, all conducted in the target language. As a Middlebury language immersion camp, students adhere to a Language Pledge® and agree to refrain from using English except in cases of emergency, safety or when the Pledge has been relaxed in camp for a particular purpose.

Students who do not meet the above criteria for a STARTALK scholarship may still apply to MMLA as regular students.

To apply, call MMLA at 802-296-2459 or email to mmla.info@middlebury.edu