Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs: Foreign Language Assistants from Abroad Teaching at German Schools

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Every year about 800 foreign students come to Germany as foreign-language assistants (FLA) to be placed in host schools and support the local subject-specialist teachers in their native languages. The FLA assist the teachers during 12 lessons per week and help make the situation of learning a foreign language lively and inspiring for the pupils.

The FLA’s responsibilities include

• language tutorials and providing information for cultural studies lessons
• role playing or rehearsing exam situations with the pupils
• conversation exercises in small groups
• preparing illustrative and teaching materials.

students from Australia, Belgium, Canada (anglophones and Quebec), France, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and China.

As a rule, the future foreign-language assistants should have completed a degree course of at least 2 years at a higher education institution in their home countries with one of the subjects being German.

about 800 grants each year

about 6 to 9 months

• monthly stipend of 1,000 EUR
• health-, accident- and liability insurances
• contribution to travel expenses, if necessary

International students may apply directly in their home countries. The contact data of the relevant partner organisations are available here .

The competent partner organisations in your country of origin will provide you with the application deadlines. Please find a detailed list at the website of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs .