Project Grant P017A230049

This Project Grant award of $1,150,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA 84.283) to Loyola Marymount University. The funding will support the establishment of the Center on English Learners and Multilingualism, which will provide capacity-building services, training, professional development, and technical assistance to state, regional, and local educational agencies to improve...

The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $123,618 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants. The project aims to explore how experimental linguistics studies can be leveraged for public engagement, by examining participants' perceptions of language and linguistics and testing whether improved science...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $661,598 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell on September 1, 2024. The grant, titled "Responsive Opportunities for Personalized Educator Systems and Supports (ROPESS): A Multi-Tiered System of Support for Bilingual Educator Development and Retention," aims to support English language learners (ELs), including immigrant children and youth, in attaining English proficiency and...

The Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $576,000 Project Grant under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365) to the University of Colorado-Denver. The grant, titled "PROJECT NXTGEN COLORADO BILINGUE", will support the university's efforts to improve English language instruction, academic achievement, and educational outcomes for English language learners (ELs), including immigrant children and youth, in the state of...

The University of Maryland Baltimore County was awarded a $125,016 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024 on linguistic production, perception, and identity in the career mobility of Black faculty in linguistics and language sciences. The project aims to contribute insights on...

The Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition awarded a $918,336.13 Project Grant to Eastern University under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365). The grant, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will support the university's efforts to improve English language instruction, academic achievement, and educational outcomes for English language learners, including immigrant children and youth. Key services to be provided include...

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 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...

This federal Project Grant award of $360,506.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, under the English Language Acquisition State Grants program (CFDA 84.365), supports the "Language in Society Teaching Apprenticeship (LISTA) Program" at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The program aims to increase the recruitment and retention of multilingual teachers through an apprenticeship model. The grant, which runs from September 1, 2024,...