Dear TIRF Board Members and Supporters, Last weekend, I had the honor of participating in the Global English Language Education China Assembly held in Zhuhai, People’s Republic of China, on July 25-28. The event was organized by China Daily in collaboration with Shanghai International Studies University, Beijing Normal University, and
The 2025 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts nomination period is currently open! For the 2025 program, a prize of $500 will be awarded for an article or chapter published in English and dealing with some aspect of language policy and/or
Editor’s Note: Via our “Grantee Corner” column, we will update our supporters on the activities of our various grantees. News about their publications and presentations, the completion of their final reports/deliverables to TIRF, awards they may receive, and so on will be highlighted from time to time in Grantee Corner.
Our mid-year appeal is just about to wrap up. Before it does, we welcome your support of TIRF’s Russell N. Cambell (RNC) endowment! Contributions toward TIRF’s RNC fund will be used to support the top-ranked Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) recipient each year. This year’s mid-year appeal helps to ensure that
The 2024 TIRF-British Council Research Mentoring Awards (RMAs) proposal deadline closed on Sunday, June 30th. Here is a quick glance at some of the key application data we collected from the second year of the program. The RMAs, first offered last year, are designed to support new researchers and improve
TESOL International Association’s Research Professional Council (RPC) has two exciting opportunities detailed below, regarding activities at the 2025 TESOL Convention in Long Beach, CA, USA. Submissions for both are due July 20th. Professional Learning and Mentoring to Support TESOL Educator Researchers The TESOL RPC invites proposals to be panelists at
