Establish or Enhance a Chinese or Japanese language program. The ALLEX Foundation enables universities to begin or maintain a high quality Chinese or Japanese language program by providing them with professionally trained, native Chinese or Japanese instructors.
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Establishing and Enhancing Chinese and Japanese Language Programs
ALLEX enables universities to begin or maintain a high quality Chinese or Japanese language program by providing them with professionally trained, native Chinese or Japanese instructors. Instructors teach one or two courses of elementary Japanese emphasizing all four language skills–speaking, listening, reading and writing–with a curriculum specially designed for native English speakers.
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ALLEX Program Interviews Completed in Asia
Members of the ALLEX Academic Team spent a total of seven days in December and January in Asia interviewing candidates for the Teaching Associate and Teaching Fellow Programs. Of the more than 200 candidates who submitted paper applications at the pre-interview screening stage, about eighty were invited to the final matching stage where just over [...]
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Case Study: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Anne Stengle is the Assistant Director of Grants at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) in Geneva, New York. In 2006 she set out to find teaching assistants for the Arabic, Russian and Chinese language programs and her first thought was the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program. Then Jonathan Wolff, who was then the Associate Provost, suggested, ‘For Chinese, why not try ALLEX?”