As news about COVID-19 developed in the early stages of 2020, TIRF’s Trustees knew the Foundation would face financial difficulties. They quickly decided to team up to help TIRF by making generous pledges to support the Foundation via a matching campaign. The result of their efforts is a $15,000 fund
To help demonstrate the “I” in “TIRF,” we maintain the “TIRF Alumni” map. Using Google’s services, each year we add our newest grantees to the map by sharing their names, hometowns, information about their studies, and a link to summaries of the awardees’ research. As of October 2020, TIRF’s programs
Editor’s note: Via the piece below, we share information about free resources that may be helpful to individuals in our field. But you’ll want to act quickly, as the tools will soon be unavailable. For more than a decade, Dr. Betty Azar has been sharing grammar-related resources via a website
Editor’s note: In this piece, Caleb Powers and Grace Davis, co-chairs of the SOWLE student organizing committee at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, share information about the 2020 Symposium on World Languages Education. Registration is now open for the 2020 Symposium on World Languages Education (SOWLE). The event
In this month’s issue of TIRF Today, we are pleased to announce that in our partnership with Routledge (Taylor & Francis), the Foundation is producing the eighth book in the “Global Research on Teaching and Learning English” series. This edited volume is entitled Research on Teaching and Learning English in
Editor’s Note: Dr. Vahid Aryadoust (left) is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. In this piece, TIRF’s President, Kathi Bailey, interviews Vahid to learn more about the resources he creates and manages for individuals in our field. Kathi Bailey: When and
ETS, a long-time partner of TIRF, has recently published a new volume in its series co-produced with Routledge. Assessing English Language Proficiency in U.S. K–12 Schools, edited by Mikyung Kim Wolf, is the fourth volume in the “Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment at ETS.” According to text on Routledge’s website,
Editor’s note: In this piece, we share information, adapted from Cambridge.org’s website, to promote news about an exciting prize opportunity in our field. Language Teaching, a Cambridge University Press journal, has announced the award of an essay prize which honors one of the founding editors of the journal – the Christopher
Chair’s note: Simply reading the text of this Chair’s Report will take just a few minutes, but it is a multi-media report. Getting the entire reading and viewing and listening experience will take about 30 minutes – but I promise you, if you need something to cheer you up, the
As many supporters of TIRF are well aware, the Foundations’ Board of Trustees meets two times per year, once during the annual TESOL Convention in the spring (Northern Hemisphere) and again in the Washington, DC area in the fall. Like nearly all organizations, however, TIRF’s meetings this year have moved
The competition for the 2021 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts is underway, but the deadline to nominate a paper is nearly here. Tomorrow, October 1, 2020, is the last day TIRF will accept nominations! For the 2021 Alatis Prize offering,
Editor’s note: In this piece, we share information about British Council’s “New Directions” conference. The text in this article has been adopted from the British Council’s website. “New Directions in English Language Assessment” is a series of annual conferences organized by the British Council. The events provide perspectives and insight
TIRF has been supporting junior researchers and their work via the Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) program over the last nineteen years. During this period of time, TIRF has awarded more than US $400,000 total to 155 individuals from nearly 30 countries, spanning all the continents of the world excluding
The competition for the 2021 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts is underway, but the deadline to nominate a paper is quickly arriving. This announcement is TIRF’s final reminder to submit a paper soon for consideration in TIRF’s 2021 Alatis Prize
