PUB DATE 1994-01-00

elementary and secondary school foreign language teachers, and allows teachers to spend 6 weeks abroad developing language skills and an understanding of the target culture. Evaluation of the program included: teacher oral language proficiency testing; a survey of participants, their principals, state foreign language supervisors, Academic Alliance coordinators, and teachers who requested an application but did not submit it. The evaluation investigated how the program was perceived in the foreign language community, the oral language proficiency level of participants and changes during the fellowship, how the program acts as a professional development tool, whether the program facilitates new perspectives or materials for the foreign language classroom, and how the program could be improved. Results indicate that the program is well-designed and continues to strengthen foreign language teaching in the nation's schools. (MSE) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be mad