During TIRF’s spring Board meeting last year, Trustees unanimously voted to establish the James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts. The prize was created both to promote research on language planning and policy and to honor long-standing TIRF Trustee, Dr. James “Jim” Alatis, who
Yan Chen Doctoral Institution: Northern Illinois University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Conceptualizing a Mobile-Assisted Narrative Writing Practice for Young English learners (iPanchitos) from a Funds-of-Knowledge Approach
Trent Newman Doctoral Institution: University of Melbourne TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: ‘Seidauk sai hanesan ami nia mehi’ – A Study of Lecturers’ Responses to Multilingualism in Higher Education in Timor-Leste
Takashi Oba Doctoral Institution: McGill University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Form-focused Practice and Corrective Feedback in EFL Classrooms: The Role of Analytical Ability and Working Memory
Simon Davidson Doctoral Institution: University of Melbourne TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: How Valid are Domain Experts’ Judgments of Workplace Communication? Implications for Setting Standards on the Occupational English Test (OET) Writing Sub-Test
Ron Darvin Doctoral Institution: University of British Columbia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Digital Identities, Educational Inequities: Investigating Social Class and New Literacies of Migrant Filipino Youth in the Knowledge Economy
Rebecca Bergey Doctoral Institution: University of Virginia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Exploring the Use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a Source of Professional Development for Teachers of English Language Learners
Nicole Pettitt Doctoral Institution: TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Social Positioning in Refugee-Women’s Education: A Linguistic Ethnography of One English Class
Naoki Ikeda Doctoral Institution: University of Melbourne TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Exploring Construct and Practicality of an Interactional Test for L2 Oral Pragmatic Performance
Minjin Lee Doctoral Institution: University College London TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Exploring the Pedagogical Potential of Multimodal Input-Based Tasks: A Study of Captioning, Textual Enhancement, and Working Memory Using Eye-Tracking
Mikako Nishikawa Doctoral Institution: University of Bristol TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Test-takers’ Cognitive Processes While Synthesizing Multiple Texts and Graphs
Marianne Blattès Doctoral Institution: King’s College London TIRF Research Topic Investigated: English as a Medium of Instruction Dissertation Title: English-medium Instruction in French Higher Education: Competing Ideologies, Policies and Practices
Laura Hamman Doctoral Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Reframing the Language Separation Debate: Language, Identity, and Ideology in Two-Way Immersion
Laura Ballard Doctoral Institution: Michigan State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: The Effects of Primacy on Rater Cognition: An Eye-tracking Study
