Project Grant 90NL0454

This Project Grant award of $250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215) will support the development and implementation of a professional development framework for school administrators and teachers. The framework aims to build...

The Federal Project Grant award of $183,619.00 from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) program is funding an initiative led by National Louis University to improve P-12 bilingual education. The project, titled "CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC RESTORATION - IMPROVING P-12 BILINGUAL EDUCATION," aims to enhance modern foreign language and area studies education in the United States through training,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $132,291 to the University of Chicago to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationship between sound perception and sound production in second language learning. The goal is to better understand how these skills develop over time and interact, which will help inform more effective pronunciation training methods for language learners. The study will...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 two-year Project Grant to support research titled "MECHANISMS TO SUPPORT WORD LEARNING IN A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE" located in Eugene, Oregon. The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2023 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $124,539 to support research examining the links between perception and production of second language speech sounds over time. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to the University of Texas at Austin will lay the foundation for developing a comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Researchers will train...

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will use a $164,792 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Economic Development program (CFDA 15.032) to continue and expand an Umatilla language immersion preschool program and develop curriculum and teaching materials. The program aims to revitalize the critically endangered Umatilla language, of which only three fluent speakers remain. Services include a four-hour preschool with 50%...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $752,048 supports research into early bilingual language development from 2023 to 2027. The award is made under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to further understanding of how young children learn two languages simultaneously. Specifically, the University of California, Davis will examine parent-child interactions in monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English families of Mexican heritage. Researchers will observe...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

The Cultural Heritage Improves Learning and Development (CHILD) Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education through the Alaska Native Educational Programs grant program (CFDA 84.356), aims to prepare Alaska Native preschool students in partnership schools to be kindergarten ready. The $3.042 million project grant was awarded to the Bristol Bay Borough School District on September 30, 2021 for a three-year period concluding on September 29,...

MELE: Indigenous Methodology for STEM and Language Education Kahuli LEO LE A, a minority-owned Native Hawaiian non-profit organization based in Kaneohe, Hawaii, received a $627,837 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Native Hawaiian Education program (CFDA 84.362) on August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2026. The MELE project develops and delivers innovative educational resources that integrate Hawaiian...