We are very happy to announce that this year’s application window for the British Council Assessment Research Awards and Grants is now open. Applications and nominations are invited for four categories: (1) Assessment Research Grants; (2) Assessment Research Awards; (3) International Assessment Award; and (4) Innovation in Assessment Prize. The deadline

Perhaps every culture has as a part of its holiday festivities the tradition of a meal with family members. This year, my mom and my brother and I went to my Aunt Holly’s house for Christmas Eve dinner. Aunt Holly has five children, fourteen grandchildren, and four great grandchildren, as

The British Council has produced a new publication entitled, English Across the Fracture Lines, edited by Elizabeth J. Erling. The publication is free to download and can be found online at the following link: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Pub_English_Across_Fracture_Lines.pdf According to the British Council website, “This volume takes stock of contexts around the globe

Editor’s note: In case you missed our #GivingTuesday note earlier this week, it is being included in this month’s newsletter just below. Dear TIRF Supporter, Today is #GivingTuesday, a day during the holiday season designed to help support the meaningful work of nonprofit organizations. Of course, we want to encourage

Several years ago, TIRF began visually representing its international work through using Google’s mapping services. We maintain a map that shows the hometowns of each of our Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) awardees. Each year, we update the map after the new DDG recipients are selected. As of August 2017, TIRF

These three simple questions are from Terry Borton’s book, Reach, Touch, and Teach: Student Concerns and Process Education (1970, McGraw-Hill). I am using them as my theme today to think about TIRF. What? As most of our readers know, TIRF is an independent non-profit foundation that strives to accomplish four

We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2018 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. Dr. Sara Kangas, Assistant Professor at Lehigh University, has been named as this year’s recipient of TIRF’s Alatis Prize. Her article is entitled, “’That’s Where

Editor’s note: The following piece was written by Dr. Julie M. Sykes, Director, and Mandy Gettler, Associate Director, for the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS). “I woke up at 4:00 this morning, skipped yoga, and played the game instead,” Harinder excitedly shares. The formula appears simple: The more

Editor’s note: TIRF Trustees travel at no expense to the Foundation. TIRF leaders conducted a site visit for the SUSTech (Southern University of Science and Technology) Center for Language Education (CLE) in Shenzhen, China on 18-19 September 2017. The purpose of the visit was to evaluate the current status of

We are pleased to report that the panel recordings from the TESOL-TIRF Research Symposium are now available online. There are three recordings that resulted from the event – “Building an Inclusive, Sustainable Research Community in TESOL” – held earlier this year in Monterey, California. Each of the three panels that

At TIRF’s meeting last month, the British Council representative to the Board, Mr. John Knagg (Head of Research and Consultancy for English at the British Council), updated the Trustees with a number of exciting British Council developments. This piece shares information about each of the topics Mr. Knagg discussed with

TESOL International Association is currently accepting applications and nominations for a multitude of awards, honors, and grants. With the November 1st deadline rapidly approaching, we encourage our TIRF Today newsletter readers to learn more about this excellent opportunity from TESOL, and to share this news with colleagues and students. According

Join Dr. Joy Peyton for her talk, “Practicing Nonviolent Communication: Speaking the Language of Peace in the Classroom and Society,” which will be held on November 2nd at 3:30pm ET. Interested individuals can either attend in person in Fairfax, VA or online via YouTube. The remainder of this announcement is

Editor’s note: The following piece is not what our readers are accustomed to finding in the “Chair’s Report”; instead, we are offering a “COO Report” this month.  In this piece, TIRF Chief Operating Officer Ryan Damerow reflects on TIRF’s recent collaboration with a university in Shenzhen, China, and shares his