Dear TIRF Board Members and Supporters, Last week, I received a video clip from Yolanda Yang, a former colleague whom I hired while serving as the Founding Director of the English Language Center (ELC) at Shantou University. The video, produced in 2006, never went viral, so seeing it after nearly
Nonprofit organizations like TIRF depend on support from the public to meet their mission goals. Two of the most common types of giving are cash donations and time, in the form of volunteering. However, there are other ways you can support TIRF. In this piece, we highlight the various options
Editor’s note: In this story, we share an interview between TIRF Trustee, Dr. Kathi Bailey, who works on TIRF’s collection of reference lists, and Ryan Damerow, TIRF’s Chief Operating Officer. Ryan: Kathi, there are currently 251 reference lists available on TIRF’s website – all of which are Word documents that
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
We are pleased to announce the 2024 TIRF-British Council Research Mentoring Award (RMA) recipients! First offered last year, the RMA program is designed to support new researchers and improve the quality of research undertaken by students in doctoral programs within the field of English language education on issues of mutual
