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Fellowship Levels

English Language Fellows are graduates who have received their TEFL/TESL M.A. degrees within the past seven years and who may or may not have prior overseas teaching experience. Fellows serve as full-time teacher of English of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Normal teaching duties are 20 contact hours per week with additional work in pre-service and in-service training, curriculum development and testing. Together these duties should not exceed 40 hours per week and should not include administrative work.

Senior English Language Fellows are experienced teacher trainers who have an M.A. or higher degree in TEFL/TESOL or a closely related field and who have significant overseas teaching experience. Fellows serve as fill-time teacher trainers and participants in the following program-related activities: teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in a variety of professional fields, designing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curricula materials, conducting program evaluation and testing, and organizing workshops and conferences.

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