When Ryan and I were discussing a plan for this year’s midyear appeal for TIRF, we decided to focus on the idea of monthly, recurring giving. As noted above, you can make a small donation to TIRF each month instead of sending a larger annual gift. When we were talking,

A number of TIRF’s Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) awardees have recently submitted their final reports to TIRF. In this piece, we share information about those grantees’ studies. Click on any of the grantees’ names to read summaries of their doctoral work. Chris Bacon Title of Project: Language Ideology and Policy

This week I missed a very important deadline. The manuscript for a book I’ve been writing for over a year was due to the publisher on May 27th, but somehow I’d gotten in my head that May 31st was the deadline. Well, to be fair – I didn’t actually miss

Editor’s note: The following piece is shared with TIRF Today readers by Jackie Kerstetter, who is the Director of Communications for the Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL), as well as the founder of Alessi Communication & Design Co., which specializes in education policy and research outreach. For

Editor’s note: The following piece is shared with TIRF Today readers by Ms. Shannon Brook Olson, Curriculum Manager at Laureate Languages. The OLLReN 4th Annual Online Conference, organized by the Laureate-Cambridge Online Language Learning Research Network (OLLReN) in association with the IATEFL Learning Technologies SIG (LTSIG), gives both experienced and

TESOL Journal is seeking 200- to 300-word proposal abstracts for the 2020 Special Issue, “Exploring the Transformative Potential of English Language Teaching for Social Justice.” The guest editors of this issue are Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe and Dr. Jason Martel, both from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Proposals

Two leading professional organizations in our field are currently offering their calls for proposals for their 2020 conferences. Please note the following details from TESOL International Association (TESOL) and the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). TESOL 2020 (TESOL International Association) Dates: March 31, 2019 – April 3, 2020 Location:

TIRF is pleased to announce its new publications activity – the TIRF Language Education in Review (LEiR) series. The aim of this exciting new series is to address some of the most salient issues affecting language education around the world, both today and in the near future. Papers in the

The competition for the 2020 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts will open on May 1st. The 2020 Alatis Prize competition marks the fifth year of TIRF offering the program. For the 2020 competition, a prize of $500 will be awarded

For all those who were unable to attend the TESOL Convention last month in Atlanta, Georgia, TIRF is pleased to share access to a slidecast (which features the PPT slides used during the talk matched with the audio from the session) of its organizational presentation hosted on Friday, March 15th.

Last year in February, the Foundation announced a series of four quizzes that were developed to help commemorate TIRF’s 20th anniversary. And, as promised, TIRF has selected one of the individuals who successfully answered all five questions on one or more of the quizzes. (Click here to review the quizzes

TIRF 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Grantee, Dr. Jessie Curtis, received an outstanding accolade from her alma matter, Rutgers University. For her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Building Multilingual Communities of Practice,” Jessie has been recognized with Rutgers’ Dr. Arleen H. Urban Excellence in Education Award. The Award was established in 2017 to honor

According to its website, the L2 Journal is an open-access, fully refereed, interdisciplinary journal which aims to promote the research and the practice of language learning and teaching. It publishes articles in English on all aspects of applied linguistics broadly conceived, i.e., second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, bilingualism and

Are you interested in a volunteer teaching opportunity to help individuals affected by conflict? If so, you might consider getting involved with Paper Airplanes. The students in the Paper Airplanes project are young adults, primarily in the age range of 18 to 35, who have been affected by conflict in