ETS is currently accepting proposals for two different grant programs: (1) the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL® Dissertation Award, and (2) the 7th annual TOEFL® English-language Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program. According to the ETS website, the purpose of the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL® Dissertation Award is to recognize doctoral dissertation research that makes a

Editor’s note: In this piece, TIRF Trustee Dr. David Nunan shares information about the assembly in China, co-organized by TESOL International Association, which took place earlier this month in Shanghai. Please note that TIRF Trustees travel at no cost to the Foundation. In July, three members of the TIRF Board

The nomination window will soon be closing for the 2019 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts. This is the fourth year we are offering TIRF’s Alatis Prize competition. A prize of $500 will be awarded for an article or chapter published

As you can see from Wyatt Boykin’s report above, we are halfway through the competition for new donors that Ryan Damerow, TIRF’s Chief Operating Officer, proposed as the driving strategy for this year’s mid-year appeal. The idea – as explained in the June issue of TIRF Today – is to

Editor’s Comment:  As long-term readers of TIRF Today know well, summer (in the northern hemisphere) is when the Foundation conducts its midyear appeal. This year, however, there is a new twist to the effort, as noted below by Wyatt Boykin, TIRF’s new intern. News Flash: TIRF launches its 2018 Midyear

We are pleased to share with TIRF Today readers that a number of our Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) recipients have completed their studies recently. The list of grantees below are those awardees who have both finished their doctorate and completed their final reports for TIRF since the beginning of the

Editor’s note: In this piece, TIRF President Kathi Bailey interviews one of TIRF’s founding and current Trustees, Dick Tucker (pictured right). To see a video of Dick Tucker talking about the work of TIRF, click here and scroll down.   Kathi: You were part of the original committee that TESOL

There is still time to submit your proposal for the 2019 TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo! Next year’s convention will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The submission deadline is July 2nd at 5pm ET. Click here to learn more about the proposal submission procedures.

Back in February of this year, we announced that TIRF would be offering a series of quizzes about its organizational and programmatic history. We invite you to take the second TIRF quiz between now and the end of September – click here. And do not forget – if you fare

TIRF is embarking on a new project to further its work in language education. The TIRF Language Education in Review (LEiR) series is being developed to address some of our field’s most pressing issues. Papers in the series will be relatively short in length and will appeal to a wide

As I announced in my Chair’s Report for the May issue of TIRF Today, it was at the June 1998 TESOL Board of Directors meeting that TIRF was voted into existence. For the next several months, the Foundation’s leaders worked to write the bylaws and meet the requirements of incorporation

Supposedly, the month of May is named for the goddess Maia, a figure in Greek mythology. She was supposedly the goddess of growth and increase, which makes sense since May is springtime in the northern hemisphere. There is also a saying that April showers bring May flowers. Taken literally, it

In case you missed TIRF’s session at the 2018 TESOL Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA in March, you now have the opportunity to watch the TIRF panel presentation. The talk was entitled “TIRF-sponsored Research on Language Education Policies: Contexts and Realities” and is now available as a slidecast (the PowerPoint

We are pleased to announce that for the next four months, Mr. Wyatt Boykin will be working for the Foundation as TIRF’s first volunteer intern. Wyatt is a graduate student in the International Education Management (IEM) program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). The IEM degree