Editor’s note: TIRF Trustee Nick Saville, Director of Research and Thought Leadership at Cambridge English, shares details from the LTRC event held in June earlier this year. As highlighted in TIRF’s June Newsletter, the 39th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) took place in Bogotá, Colombia in July. It was the

The ASEAN-ELT conference secretariat invites the ELT community to participate at its first conference, to be held March 15-17, 2018. The conference will convene in Melaka, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage City. The theme of the conference is “Maximizing the Potential in ASEAN Diversities through the English Language.” The deadline

This month, MECA, the Multicultural Education Conference in Anaheim, was organized by Anaheim University and hosted by The Academia Foundation in Anaheim, California. The presentations addressed a wide range of topics that appeal to the teachers, administrators, and teacher trainees interested in multicultural education and intercultural communication. Topics discussed included

We are pleased to share with our readers that Dr. Melanie van den Hoven completed her doctorate at Durham University earlier this year. Dr. van den Hoven is one of nine TIRF Sheikh Nahayan Fellows who were granted awards from TIRF between 2008 and 2010. Dr. van den Hoven’s study

Editor’s note: In this piece, TIRF Trustee Michael Carrier shares information about his activities to support language education in the UK. A TIRF Trustee has just taken up a new government committee appointment to support the language education sector in the UK. Michael Carrier has been asked to take on

Editor’s note: In this piece, long-time TIRF Supporter Dr. Marianne Celce-Murcia explains a unique, tax-saving approach for US residents who pay US taxes to donate to TIRF. I am guessing that many of my fellow supporters of TIRF have tried to find ways to make regular substantial contributions, but have

Editor’s note: TIRF Trustees Lorraine de Matos and Michael Carrier contributed the following piece to “TIRF Today.” TIRF was represented at the 16th biennial conference of the Association of Latin American British Cultural Institutes (LABCI), which welcomed over 450 participants from Latin America, the US, and Europe, from July 13

This has been a very busy month for TIRF! We have been working on the ratings of the 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Grant proposals and publicizing the 2018 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize competition. We have also been finalizing the manuscript of the fifth volume in the TIRF-Routledge series, Global Research

Editor’s note: In this piece, Dr. Rebecca Bergey (EdD Researcher, Center for ELLs at AIR), 2016 TIRF DDG awardee, shares information with TIRF newsletter readers about the Center for ELLs at AIR. The Center for English Language Learners at American Institutes for Research (AIR) is committed to reducing the achievement

ETS is currently accepting proposals for two different grant programs: (1) the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL® Dissertation Award, and (2) the 6th annual TOEFL® English-language Researcher/Practitioner Grant Program. According to ETS’ website, the purpose of the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL® Dissertation Award is to recognize doctoral dissertation research that makes a significant

Editor’s note: Dr. Spiros Papageorgiou (TIRF Trustee and Managing Research Scientist in the Center for English Language Learning and Assessment at Educational Testing Service) and Mr. Justin Rodford (Partnership Manager at Cambridge English Language Assessment) contributed to the following piece. Next month, several individuals from TIRF’s partner network will be

Editor’s note: The following content has been shared with TIRF newsletters readers from Justin Rodford, Partnership Manager at Cambridge English Language Assessment. Scholarship applications are now being accepted for IATEFL 2018 where teach. These scholarships will result in multiple teachers winning a trip to the conference, which is taking place

Editor’s note: TIRF Trustee Michael Carrier contributed the following piece to this issue of “TIRF Today.” TIRF was represented across Europe over the last few weeks. Trustee Michael Carrier gave presentations in Riga, Latvia (at the EAQUALS Conference); in Barcelona, Spain (at the newly founded InnovateELT Conference, run by ELTjam.com);

As I was starting to draft this Chair’s Report for the June 2017 issue of TIRF Today, I realized it was June 21st – the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere. The word solstice, I learned, is from the Latin noun sol