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
Jessie Curtis Doctoral Institution: Rutgers University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Building Multilingual Communities of Practice
