Briana Ronan Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Making Meaning across Modes: English Language Learners and their Academic Writing within a Digital Space
Derya Kulavuz-Onal Doctoral Institution: University of South Florida TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: English Language Teachers’ Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action
HyoJung Lim Doctoral Institution: Michigan State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Exploring the Validity of Evidence of the TOEFL IBT Reading Test from a Cognitive Perspective
Joyce Kling Doctoral Institution: University of Copenhagen TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Teacher Identity in English-Medium Instruction: Teacher Cognitions from a Danish Tertiary Education Context
Lixia Cheng Doctoral Institution: Purdue University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Effects of Pragmatic Task Features, English Proficiency, and Learning Setting on Chinese ESL/EFL Learners’ Spoken Performance of Requests
Pasty Egan (Vinogradov) (Russell N. Campbell Awardee) Doctoral Institution: University of Minnesota TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Little Desks, Big Ideas: The Unlikely Meeting of Adult Educators in Kindergarten to Explore Early Literacy Instruction
Tasha Darbes Doctoral Institution: New York University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: “Hard to Place”: Multilingual Immigrant-Origin Students in Community Colleges
WeiWei Yang Doctoral Institution: Georgia State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Mapping the Relationships among the Cognitive Complexity of Independent Writing Tasks, L2 Writing Quality, and the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency of L2 Writing
