Maverick Magazine Fall 2022: Fulbright Foreign Language Program Enriches Campus Culture
Eight years ago, supported by a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching grant, Khaled Abunaama spent a year at Mercy College, teaching Arabic language and culture. As a newcomer to the United States, he leaned heavily on his contacts at Mercy to help him apply for the prestigious grant, obtain a visa, and navigate living and teaching in a foreign country for a year.
The Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program was designed to improve Americans’ knowledge of foreign cultures and languages by inviting native-speaking teachers to foreign-language classrooms at American colleges and universities. Now in its 12th year at Mercy, the FLTA program has not only boosted Mercy’s Arabic courses, but also benefits a succession of Arabicspeaking foreign educators, allowing them to hone their professional skills while gaining in-country knowledge of the U.S., its culture and its people.
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