National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) supports U.S. high school students in intensive language study and cultural immersion abroad to spark lifelong interest in languages and cultures.
Virtual NSLI-Y supports U.S. high school students through beginner-level online instruction in Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, or Russian and cultural learning to foster intercultural understanding.
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program supports U.S. undergraduate and graduate students in intensive summer language study and cultural immersion to build critical language skills for their careers.
The NSF Linguistics Program supports basic research on human language including syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics, and more, but doesn't fund clinical or applied research.
Language Learning Early Career Research Grant Program supports early-career researchers’ language-science studies to advance understanding of language learning and lay groundwork for larger funded projects.