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TIRF DDG recipients

Recipients and Findings

The Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) was held online this year from June 14 to 17, and as has been the custom for several years, TIRF was represented there. At the awards ceremony, plaques were given to seven TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) recipients – five 2019 TIRF DDG recipients and two 2020 awardees. (Since last year’s LTRC event was cancelled due to the pandemic, recognizing the 2019 grantees was not possible.)

WeiWei Yang

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

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Tasha Darbes

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

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Lixia Cheng

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

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Joyce Kling

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

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HyoJung Lim

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

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Derya Kulavuz-Onal

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

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Briana Ronan

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

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