We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. Dr. Kate Seltzer, Assistant Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education at Rowan University, has been named as this year’s recipient of TIRF’s Alatis Prize. Her
ETS, a long-time partner of TIRF, has recently published a new volume in its series co-produced with Routledge. Assessing Change in English Second Language Writing Performance, by Khaled Barkaoui and Ali Hadidi, is the fifth volume published in the “Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment at ETS” series. According to text
In late October last year, TIRF issued a call for support of the Foundation, and our donors stepped up to the challenge. When the pandemic first took hold of the world in early 2020, TIRF decided to forgo its midyear appeal and plan ahead for a matching campaign, in which
Editor’s note: The following text has been adapted from the Center for Applied Linguistic’s website. The virtual migration of student learning and interaction from the classroom to the cloud is leaving many behind. Now that we are nearly one year into the pandemic, policymakers have access to the latest studies,
Editor’s note: The following text is being shared with TIRF supporters via Joyce Chin and Ingrid Chao at LTTC. The Language Training and Testing Center (LTTC) in Taipei, Taiwan, is pleased to announce that online submissions for the 2021 LTTC Teaching and Research Grants Joint-Funded Research Program are now being
