INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE COMPLETING THE LANGUAGE FORMS

A Foreign Language Evaluation is required for all non-English-speaking countries, even if the Country Summary indicates that knowledge of the host country language is not necessary for most projects.

To have access to Form 7: Language Background Report, you must answer “Yes” to Preliminary Question #3 when you create your online application account.

To be completed by applicant:

• Form 7: Language Background Report
• Form 7A: Critical Language Enhancement Award Supplementary Statement (if applicable only)

To be completed by Language Evaluator:

• Form 8: Foreign Language Evaluation

General Instructions

• One set of forms must be completed electronically, as applicable.
• For applicants who do not have knowledge of and/or training in the host country language: Only complete the online Form 7: Language Background Report and indicate your plans for obtaining a hospitality/survival level of the language to accomplish the program’s goal of increasing mutual understanding. Form 8 from a language evaluator is unnecessary.
• For applicants who have knowledge of the language: Both Form 7: Language Background Report and Form 8: Foreign Language Evaluation must be completed electronically if you are applying to a country where English is not commonly spoken and/or if you are required to have knowledge of the host country or other language.
• For applicants who need evaluation in more than one language: If you need to be evaluated in more than one language, complete the forms electronically for the primary language. For additional languages, print the PDF forms and manually complete them.
• If you do not have Form 7: Language Background Report in the online application, you need to “Update Your Answers” to Preliminary Question #3 and answer “Yes”. See the online application for instructions.
• All forms, including those completed electronically, must also be printed out and submitted with your hard copy application. This applies both to forms that you, the applicant, completes, and to forms completed by the language evaluator.
  

Form 7: Language Background Report

Form 7A: Critical Language Enhancement Award Supplementary Statement

Form 8: Foreign Language Evaluation

Choosing a Language Evaluator: In choosing your language evaluator, consider:

• Language evaluations may be conducted by someone who has taught you and knows your language ability.
• The Fulbright Program prefers that the Foreign Language Evaluation be completed by a college or university faculty member.
• If the language is not commonly taught in the U.S. and a professional teacher of the language is not available within a reasonable distance, the Evaluation may be completed by a native speaker, who is not a family member.
  

Materials to Provide Your Language Evaluator: You must make sure that the person completing the Foreign Language Evaluation has the information necessary for them to make an adequate assessment of your language skills relative to the Fulbright Research/Study project or as required for a specific country’s ETA grant.

• Research/Study applicants should provide the evaluator with a summary of their Statement of Grant Purpose.
• ETA applicants should give the evaluator the description of the ETA Program for the country to which they are applying and a summary of there their Statement of Grant Purpose.
• Give the evaluator(s) a copy of your completed Form 7: Language Background Report.
• Provide evaluators with a self-addressed-business-size envelope for the printed copy of the Evaluation, so that they can return the completed Form 8 to you as indicated below.
  

Electronic Completion: This is the preferred method and it is to the applicant’s advantage that the form be completed electronically. Remember, electronically submitted forms must also be printed out and submitted with the hard copy application.

• You must register the person completing the language evaluation in Step E in the online application. You will be asked to provide the name, address, institution/organization, and email of the evaluator.
• This registration will generate an email to the evaluator which will give him/her instructions on how to complete the form online.
• The form will be completed online by the language evaluator.
• Once completed online, the evaluator must print out a copy, sign it, put it in a sealed envelope, sign across the back flap of the envelope, and give the envelope to you, so that you can submit it with the application. The instructions to the evaluator will tell them to do this, but you may need to remind them.
  

Hard Copy Completion: If the language evaluator is not able to complete the electronic form or if you have more than one language to be evaluated, the person may complete the form in hard copy only and give it to you in a signed, sealed envelope.

Submitting the Language Forms: You will collect the Foreign Language Evaluation from the evaluator and submit it along with the rest of the hard copy application materials. The envelope containing the Foreign Language Evaluation can be attached, using a paper clip, to the copy of the Language Background Report.