Deadline: 12-Jul-20
The U.S. Embassy Hanoi Public Affairs Section (PAS) has announced available funding for the American Center Hanoi’s English Language Teaching Program.
Through this funding opportunity the U.S. Embassy aims to provide American Center patrons high quality opportunities to practice their English and to learn more about American culture. The program should be based on sound English Language Teaching pedagogy, combining some structured instruction along with ample time for speaking practice. Having a trained teacher is a critical criterion for all proposals and preference, due to their cultural knowledge, will be given to projects working with trained American teachers.
Priority Areas
Proposals for projects must focus on one of the priority English programs and target audiences specified below:
- Targeted Language Skill Workshops: English class focused on strengthening specific language skills, such as pronunciation, intonation, public-speaking, debate, or standardized test preparation with the goal of helping students and young professionals become more successful in their studies or career tract.
- English for American Culture: Creative English programming to help learners improve vocabulary while exploring components of American culture, such as American music, sports, customs, and holidays.
- English for Activism: English workshops focusing on advocacy, activism, and skills for presentation and writing proposals and letters of intent.
- English for Specialized Purposes: English class to enhance the professional English capacity of students, recent graduates, and young professionals in the fields of STEM, Journalism, Business, and Social Entrepreneurship to improve learning and career advancement opportunities.
- English for Underprivileged Groups: English class for patrons of existing charity groups and organizations, including but not limited to shelters for women, abuse victims or children’s organizations.
- Project Based English Class: Workshops and classes where the medium of instruction is in English, allowing participants to improve language ability.
Funding Information
- Award Amount will be up to $10,000
- Length of performance period: Duration can be up to one year. Successful projects will be eligible for renewal.
Target Audiences
The target audiences for successful projects are Vietnamese students and young professionals ages 15 – 40.
Priority Regions
Activities should be mainly implemented/conducted in the American Center in Hanoi and/or Thai Nguyen University Learning Resources and Information Technology Center.
Eligibility Criteria
- Submissions are encouraged from U.S. and Vietnamese entities with relevant programming and/or teaching experience. This experience should be documented in the proposal. Eligible entities include:
- not-for-profit, civil society/non-governmental organizations
- universities; non-profit educational institutions
- individuals
- For-profit entities are not eligible.
- Previous federal award recipients who are not/were not in compliance with the terms of their financial and program reporting requirements are ineligible to apply. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure they are in compliance with all applicable terms, conditions, and Office of Management and Budget guidance and requirements.
- Those organizations found to be in non-compliance may be found ineligible for funding or designated high risk if selected for funding
Evaluation Criteria
Criteria used for evaluating the proposals are as follows:
- Overall design and implementation plan for English programs at the American Center Hanoi and/or Thai Nguyen University Learning Resources and Information Technology Center should closely align with one or more of the target audiences listed above.
- Target class sizes should range between 25 and 150 students.
- Competitive proposals will have 1.5 hours to four contact hours per week, with a minimum of 20 contact hours in total.
- Duration of the grant should be a maximum of one year. Individual English courses can be shorter than six months in duration.
- The grantee is encouraged to recruit students and course attendees.
- The language of instruction is English, but Vietnamese may be used in some instances. The final presentation or capstone project must be in English.
- The proposal must include detailed information about the project members and instructor(s), including CV, resume and other relevant professional experience.
- The instructors of the class should be trained teachers, professionals working in the field of language instruction.
- The grantee is responsible for obtaining visas and any other legal documents required by the Government of Vietnam for staff to work in the country.
- Budget in the proposal must include:
- Cost of teaching materials for teachers and learning materials for students
- Salary of teachers
- Marketing and recruiting costs
- Field trips/Transportation cost (if any)
- The proposal must include a syllabus and a course monitoring and evaluation plan. Marketing strategies to recruit attendees are recommended but not required
- Provide post-course feedback on the students’ performance.
For more information, visit https://vn.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/Notice-of-Funding-Opportunity-NOFO-for-English-Language-Teaching-Program.pdf