TIRF is now acceptiong applications for the 2010 Doctoral Dissertation Grant Competition. Full instructions for DDG applications can be found here. Applications for the 2010 DDG competition are due May 15, 2010.

In 2010, TIRF will once again have a slot on the program for the international TESOL Convention, which will be held in Boston. The presentation will be a panel discussion entitled "Research Evidence and the Global Economic Role of English." Our panelists will be Lorraine de Matos (Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil), Reece Duca (GlobalEnglish Corporation), and Michael Carrier (the British Council). The presentation is scheduled for Thursday, March 25 from 7:30 to 8:15 AM in Room 210 of the Convention Center. There will be a coffee and tea reception for our donors before the presentation, starting at 7 AM.

Dr. Muhammad Abdel Latif, one of the three 2008 TIRF Sheikh Nahayan Fellowship recipients, has received two prestigious awards. He received the 2009 Canadian Modern Language Review Best Graduate Student Paper: "Toward a New Process-Based Indicator for Measuring Writing Fluency: Evidence from L2 Writers' Think-Aloud Protocols." He was also selected by ACTFL (the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages) as the winner of the 2009 ACTFL-MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education.