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TIRF Issues Report on Plurilingualism in Corporations

Dennis Hogan presents the results of a recent TIRF study on plurilingualism in business.

There was a presentation about recent TIRF initiatives at the TESOL Convention in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, March 26, 2009. During this presentation, Dennis Hogan shared the results of a TIRF-commissioned study on plurilingualism in global business. To read the report or an executive summary, click on the links below. The TIRF Board of Trustees thanks all our donors for their continued support.

TIRF is developing a series of reports that addresses key, unanswered questions regarding policies and practices in English language education worldwide. TIRF is proud to announce the first of these reports, "The Impact of English and Plurilingualism in Global Corporations." To see a summary of this report, please click here. For the full version of the report, click here.

Good News for Doctoral Students

Thanks to generous support from Cambridge ESOL, TIRF is pleased to announce increased funding for TIRF DDG Awards for 2009. Priority funding will be given to doctoral proposals that address TIRF's research priority on assessment (see TIRF Research Priorities); however, all DDG proposals will be considered for this funding (see DDG 2009 Call for Proposals).