We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2020 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. Dr. Nicholas Limerick, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been named as this year’s recipient of TIRF’s Alatis Prize. His
Amanda Earl Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Endangerment and Revitalization Dissertation Title: Understanding Roles and Meanings of an Intercultural Higher Education for Rural Youth and Communities in Mexico
Ayşenur Sağdıç Doctoral Institution: Georgetown University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Learning by Simulating: Second Language Pragmatic Development in a Technology-Mediated Task-Based Simulation with Feedback
Carolina Fabiola Arias Contreras Doctoral Institution: The University of Queensland TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Content-based Instruction Dissertation Title: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the Field of Agriculture: From Needs Analysis to ESP Task Design and Implementation
Kendi Ho Doctoral Institution: University of Hawai’i TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Health Communication in Home Care for Elders in Hawai‘i
Celia Reddick Doctoral Institution: Harvard University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English Dissertation Title: Language for an Unknowable Future: How Language Ideologies and Pedagogies Shape the Lives of Refugee Children
Heesun Chang Doctoral Institution: The University of Georgia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Features of International Teaching Assistants: Linguistic-level Authenticity in ITA Assessment
Hyunah Kim Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Content-based Instruction Dissertation Title: Differential Item Functioning Due to Cultural Familiarity on Reading Achievement Test: Does the Length of Residence Matter?
Jade Kim Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Seminars as Communities of Practice: The Structural Analysis of Four Graduate-Level Seminars and the Spoken Participation Experiences of International Students in a Canadian University
Lei Jiang Doctoral Institution: University of Georgia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English Dissertation Title: English Learner Students and College Access in the US: Analyzing Thirty Years of Evidence from the National Secondary School Longitudinal Studies
Mama Adobea Nii Owoo (Russell N. Campbell Award Winner) Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Language Policy as Personal Experience: Rereading Medium of Instruction policy in Ghana
Tsung-han Weng Doctoral Institution: University of Kansas TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Global and Multicultural Education as Policy: An Ecological Study of Taiwan High School EFL Education
Andrew Scott Doctoral Institution: Lancaster University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: The Pedagogic Discourse of Teacher-led Responses to Student Writing: An Investigation into the Knowledge, Language and Pedagogy of Teacher Feedback Practices in Academic English Writing Classrooms for International Students
Carmen Durham Doctoral Institution: University of Maryland, College Park TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Bridging and Expanding Language Through Digital Tools: Pre-Service Teachers Learning About Technology
