About Grants
Our 2006-2007 grant competition is currently closed. To see past and current projects underway, please see our Awards page.
SALRC supports projects to create and disseminate new resources for teaching and research on South Asian languages notably via the World Wide Web. Specifically, SALRC commissions integrated course materials for language instruction, graded readers, and language reference works such as grammars and pedagogical dictionaries.
A closely coordinated effort with broad consultation and involvement by leading U.S. language teachers is structured to produce new resources and refurbishing of the best of older pedagogical materials. As part of this process, the University of Pennsylvania, the coordinating center for pedagogical resources creation, organized two two-day workshops for teachers of South Asian languages from universities participating in SALRC. Participating teachers formed working groups in their languages of expertise and identified the greatest needs for South Asian language teaching materials.
During these workshops, the participants developed generic guidelines for commissioning projects. Further, working groups also prepared specific reports assessing needs in Hindi, Urdu, Pakistani languages other than Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.
SALRC invites proposals during each academic year to support projects. Submitted proposals are reviewed by a panel of language faculty and the SALRC executive committee. In addition to this, SALRC will also make small mini grants throughout the year to support a specific need or activity for language teachers, specifically in line with the mission indicated above.
To better serve those submitting letters of intent and proposals, the SALRC posts several Sample Letters of Intent and Sample Proposals to serve as references. These are available along with our other Awards pages.