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

Over the past several months, TIRF has been sharing information about the TESOL-TIRF Research Symposium which was held in Monterey, California earlier this month. Now that the event has taken place, we want to provide our readers with a recap about the event. As reported earlier, the Symposium featured alternating

Editor’s note: The text below is being shared from TESOL International Association’s website. The TESOL International Association Research Agenda seeks to promote spirited inquiry and systematic investigation that will contribute to the knowledge base of the TESOL field. As described in the agenda, TESOL research may focus on individual, community,

Each year, the Foundation solicits financial support from the public during its mid-year fundraising campaign. The aim is to raise money to support TIRF’s programmatic offerings and to help offset its administrative costs. To put things simply, meeting our fundraising goals over the past several years has been difficult. For

As an outstanding alumnus of Suzhou University, TIRF’s Vice President, Dr. Jun Liu, was invited to participate in the first-ever Jiangsu Development Summit on May 20th in Nanjing, China. The summit aims to offer a platform where Jiangsuers from different walks of life, scattered throughout the world, can communicate and

Editor’s note: The announcement below is being shared with TIRF newsletter readers from the IRIS team. We are pleased to announce that the first round of the IRIS Replication Award is now open! The winning published (or accepted) self-labelled replication, using material available on IRIS, will be awarded £300! Submissions

As you may have read in the March edition of TIRF Today, TIRF Trustee Dr. MaryAnn Christison and TIRF supporter Dr. Denise Murray gave a presentation on behalf of the Foundation at the 2017 TESOL Convention in Seattle, Washington earlier this year. The title of their talk was “Online Language