Applications have closed for 2010
The Ministry of Education is offering up to 15 fully-funded Language Immersion Awards (LIAs) for travel in 2011 to New Zealand secondary school students who study the following languages:
- Chinese
- Cook Island Māori
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Samoan
- Spanish
- Tongan
- Vagahau Niue
- Tokelauan
Live for up to six months in a country where the language you study is spoken and gain understanding and skills in a real life context while living with a host family and going to a local school. Gain greater cultural awareness, knowledge and competency and contribute to the growth of New Zealand’s knowledge economy by using your new skills and knowledge in your classes when you get back home.
Awards are for language not country placements.
All applications must be received on or before closing date to be considered.
For more information, check out the frequently asked questions, or email prue.elwood@afs.org .
”This whole experience has been simply amazing. I am so thankful for the opportunities I have had, for the people I have met, and for the things I have learnt (about my host country, and about myself). AFS and the MoE, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity. It is definitely life changing (in a good way!) and it can never be forgotten.”
Amy Dacombe
LIA recipient,
Japan, 2008
