About the ELTF

The Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships (ELTF), part of the broader Endeavour Awards, provide opportunities for practising language teachers and trainee (pre-service) language 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 are to:

• provide practising language teachers and trainee language 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 language teachers with recent in-country experience and expertise as a resource at school, system, State 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 language teachers and trainee language teachers; and
• strengthen networking among language teachers and trainee language teachers nationally and in each State/Territory.