STARTALK@NYU admits a total of twenty participants with a Bachelor’s or higher degree and Arabic, Hindi or Urdu language proficiency at the Advanced level or beyond on the ACTFL scale (for those applicants unfamiliar with this scale please see below what you should be able to do in the language). Applicants need to submit all documents by May 25:
- STARTALK application form
- C.V.
- Filled-out questionnaire
- Two statements of purpose of about 500 words — in English and in the target language (they provide us with information about the applicant’s language proficiencies).
Address: STARTALK, 50 Washington Square South, 2nd fl., New York, NY 10012 or email: Rajni Bhargava rb154@nyu.edu
Speakers at the Advanced level engage in conversation in a clearly participatory manner in order to communicate information on autobiographical topics, as well as topics of community, national, or international interest. The topics are handled concretely by means of narration and description in the major time frames of past, present, and future. These speakers can also deal with a social situation with an unexpected complication. The language of Advanced-level speakers is abundant, the oral paragraph being the measure of Advanced-level length and discourse. Advanced-level speakers have sufficient control of basic structures and generic vocabulary to be understood by native speakers of the language, including those unaccustomed to non-native speech (Source).