§1132–6 Science and technology advanced foreign language education grant program

Summary

The Secretary must set up a grant program to help colleges create new ways to teach foreign languages, especially tied to science and technology. The program aims to get students to learn science/technology and foreign languages, support future international science teamwork, train K–12 teachers of critical foreign languages, and raise the number of U.S. students who reach the highest level of skill in those languages. Grants can pay for things like on-campus cultural programs taught in a foreign language, study-abroad immersion in science or technology, intensive summer workshops, teacher recruitment and training, internships, and distance-learning options. Grants may also support preparing teachers. The Secretary must give priority to colleges that combine language study with science or technology and to schools teaching critical foreign languages. Not later than one year after August 14, 2008, the Secretary must do a study on best practices and send a report to the authorizing committees. The law allows whatever money is needed to run the program for fiscal year 2009 and each later fiscal year.