Sg. Colvillehall et Dm. Hunn, CHARTING A COURSE FOR CHANGE - BASIC GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING FOR FOREIGN-LANGUAGE TEACHERS, Foreign language annals, 27(3), 1994, pp. 325-334
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6
Categorie Soggetti
Language & Linguistics","Education & Educational Research
Foreign language teachers who face decreasing budgets can acquire need
ed materials and develop new units or programs through small grant fun
ding. It is believed that all teachers have the capability of obtainin
g grants because of their pedagogical knowledge of lesson-planning whi
ch has strong similarities with grant proposal writing. Pairing that k
nowledge with the ability to locate an appropriate source is key to su
ccessful grant writing and enables teachers to effectuate the organizi
ng of a proposal. This article suggests seven steps for novice proposa
l writers, provides the names of agencies and addresses of potential f
unding sources, presents examples of successful proposals written by f
oreign language teachers, and encourages all teachers who want new mat
erials, equipment, programs, resources, and study or travel funds to m
ake the necessary application to obtain them.