The 2023 East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) conference will be held on Friday, October 27, 2023. For the first time since 2019, the conference will be held in-person at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. ECOLT is hosted jointly by the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center (AELRC) at
Dear TIRF Colleagues and Friends: I was gratified to see so many TIRF Trustees during our Board meeting in Portland last week during the TESOL Convention. Our first post-pandemic face-to-face Board meeting was extremely energized and productive. As the result of our engaging discussion, we came away with four meaningful
Just last week, TIRF Trustees and staff gathered in Portland, Oregon, USA for its spring 2023 Board meeting and presentations, as part of the TESOL 2023 International Convention & English Language Expo. In this piece, we update our supporters on our various activities. TIRF Board Meeting On Tuesday, March 21st,
TIRF is offering an exciting initiative in which you can support both the Foundation and our field in a cost-effective way while delivering recognition of your organization’s brand via TIRF’s website. In short, for US $100, organizations worldwide can sponsor one (or more) of TIRF’s 240+ reference lists, which concern
Editor’s note: The following content is shared with our supporters by TIRF’s partner, the British Council. We are pleased to announce that this year’s call for the British Council and MetaMetrics Research into Reading Grants is now open. The Grants are intended to provide a body of evidence which can
The application window for TIRF’s 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) competition is now open. The Foundation’s flagship program is designed to provide awards for doctoral students nearing the completion of their studies. Along with our long-standing partners – Cambridge (part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment) and the British Council
Russell N. Campbell, a founding Trustee of TIRF and a tireless advocate for language education worldwide, passed away on March 30, 2003. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, the TIRF Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the launch of an endowment in his honor that will support
