FeiFeng Liu Doctoral Institution: Fudan University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Effects of Task Complexity on Chinese EFL Learners’ L2 Oral Performance: A Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Perspective
Lumeng Fang Doctoral Institution: Beijing Foreign Studies University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Validating the Writing Part B of GSEEE: Investigating the Prompt Topic Effect
Wandong Xu Doctoral Institution: Chongqing University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: A Comparative Study on Candidates’ Cognitive Processes Completing IELTS, TOEFL iBT, and CET-6 Reading Tests: Evidence from Eyetracking
Yiting Duan Doctoral Institution: Chongqing University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Assessing the Validity of CSE Self-Assessment Scale for Listening Proficiency
Yiwei Qin Doctoral Institution: University of Macau TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Washback Effect of Classroom-Based Assessment from Learners’ Perspectives
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. Dr. Kate Seltzer, Assistant Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education at Rowan University, has been named as this year’s recipient of TIRF’s Alatis Prize. Her article
Christian Fallas Escobar Doctoral Institution: University of Texas at San Antonio TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Policy and Planning & Plurilingualism in Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Latina/o Bilingual Teacher Candidates’ Negotiation of Raciolinguistic Ideologies
Yingzhao Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Second Language Studies program at Michigan State University. Her dissertation explores how hyperlinked glosses (i.e., short definitions of words) written in learners’ first or second languages influence vocabulary learning from reading. For her doctoral research, she tracks the amount of time learners
