2025

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.)

Junghee Byun

Junghee Byun is a visiting researcher at Iowa State University and a high school English teacher in South Korea with 25 years of teaching experience. She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Seoul National University and an MA in TESOL from New York University. Her research focuses on technology-enhanced

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Mary Hillis, Jane Holelker, Monica Baker, & Anastasia Khawaja

Mary Hillis is an English language instructor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. She also has experience coordinating university writing centers. She currently serves as Chair of TESOL’s Membership Professional Council and the Japan Association for Language Teaching’s Awards and Recognition Committee. Her research interests are teacher professional development and

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