About the ELTF

The Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships (ELTF), part of the broader Endeavour Awards, provide opportunities for practising languages teachers and trainee (pre-service) languages teachers to improve their language proficiency and cultural knowledge through an intensive, short-term study program.

The Asia Education Foundation manages the ELTF on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

The broad objectives of the ELTF program are to:

• provide practising languages teachers and trainee languages teachers with the opportunity to improve their knowledge, skills and understanding of the languages and cultures about which they will teach;
• help develop a pool of languages teachers with recent in-country experience and expertise as a resource at school, system, state/territory and national levels;
• strengthen linkages between educators in Australia and in targeted countries;
• promote the value of languages education in Australian schools; and
• strengthen mutual understanding between the people of participating countries. 

More specifically the ELTF program aims to:

• provide intensive professional learning to increase language proficiency levels of languages teachers and trainee languages teachers; and
• strengthen networking among languages teachers and trainee languages teachers nationally and in each state/territory.