Teaching A Foreign Language to Earn Financial Aid

[lelick1234]

Hello, 

I am not exactly sure where I should post this, but maybe you all might be able to give some advice. My wife is an Egyptian immigrant to the United States who has her bachelor's degree English from the University of Alexandria.  She would like to obtain her Master's degree in English, but is quite intimidated by the costs.  She was wondering if there were any colleges in the United States that offer financial assistance to graduate students who are able to teach a language other than English.  She was a Fulbright teaching assistant at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Arabic a couple years ago, therefore she has at least a full year of college teaching experience. I am looking forward to your responses. 

--Leonard. 

[xolo]

Others may know more, but it is very common for grad students to teach foreign languages as TAs. I know that sometimes TAs in Spanish are actually students in a different department but they work something out with the Spanish department. If Arabic is her language, I wouldn't know about that specifically, it is generally a much smaller department.

[Francophile1]

It is very common here to get a TA job as part of the funding package basically most programs (MA+PhD) only accept students if they can offer them funding. This means they cover your tuition while you teach (for a relatively low salary) a class or 2 per semester. This is more common in MA+PhD joint programs. Some MA only programs may also offer this or may say that there are teaching possibilities once she gets there.

You should look at each's school's site to see what they offer. Definitely consider applying for MA's that have an option to continue on to a PhD, even if you don't intend to do this. There is a bigger chance to be funded here. If you have any more questions about this, feel free to PM me

[unræd]

It is very common here to get a TA job as part of the funding package basically most programs (MA+PhD) only accept students if they can offer them funding. This means they cover your tuition while you teach (for a relatively low salary) a class or 2 per semester. This is more common in MA+PhD joint programs. Some MA only programs may also offer this or may say that there are teaching possibilities once she gets there.

You should look at each's school's site to see what they offer. Definitely consider applying for MA's that have an option to continue on to a PhD, even if you don't intend to do this. There is a bigger chance to be funded here. If you have any more questions about this, feel free to PM me

 

This is helpful, but I think the OP's point is that his wife is looking to be admitted to a program in English, rather than in the Arabic program. I think that kind of cross-posting to teach languages is more common with students in Comp Lit than with students in straight English programs.