We are pleased to announce the opening of TIRF’s 2025 Kathleen M. Bailey Teacher-Research Award (hereafter, the “TIRF Bailey Award”). Recipients of the TIRF Bailey Award will receive $1,000 and will have an opportunity to receive mentoring services from the Foundation. The TIRF Bailey Award is meant to recognize Dr.
Editor’s note: Dr. Kathi Bailey recently caught up with Dr. Nick Saville, both TIRF Trustees. The two explored Nick’s career trajectory, his contributions to TIRF, and his broader involvement in language education and assessment. In this piece, we share a ChatGPT-powered summary of key points from the interview; however, we
We are pleased to announce the 2024 TIRF-British Council Research Mentoring Award (RMA) recipients! First offered last year, the RMA program is designed to support new researchers and improve the quality of research undertaken by students in doctoral programs within the field of English language education on issues of mutual
For more than a decade, Dr. Kathi Bailey served as TIRF’s President, stepping down from the position in 2022. Now, due in part to the generosity of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, Dr. Bailey is being recognized with a new TIRF award program named in her honor. The
TIRF partner National Geographic Learning (NGL) is hosting a webinar next month, drawing content based, in part, on the topic of the TIRF Insights: English-Medium Instruction paper co-published by NGL and TIRF earlier this year. The session, offered once at 9am ET and again at 9pm ET on October 17th,
Dear TIRF Colleagues and Friends: Nowadays, everyone is talking about Open AI and how ChatGPT is impacting what we do. Our TIRF Vice President, Professor Suzzanne Panferov Reese, asked the following question not long ago using ChatGPT: “What is the future of English teaching in an AI world?” Within a
If you missed TIRF’s presentation at the 2023 TESOL Convention, we have good news to share. A slidecast has been created and posted to TIRF’s website and YouTube Channel. Click here to access the recording. The presentation is entitled “TIRF Research on Integrating Language and Content in Diverse Contexts.” The
Are you preparing a conference presentation, writing a literature review, or simply looking for information on a particular professional topic? If so, TIRF can help! For several years now TIRF has been providing a collection of reference lists on topics of interest to language teachers researchers, program administrators, teacher educators,
TIRF is offering an exciting initiative in which you can support both the Foundation and our field in a cost-effective way while delivering recognition of your organization’s brand via TIRF’s website. In short, for US $100, organizations worldwide can sponsor one (or more) of TIRF’s 240+ reference lists, which concern
One way TIRF meets its mission is to provide professional services and expertise to language education centers and other entities offering language education programs. Via its Program Review services, TIRF makes research-based recommendations and identifies leading practices to help its clients achieve their goals, thereby helping to advance the field
Earlier this year, the Foundation began offering organizations an opportunity to support both the field of language education and TIRF in a simple and affordable way. In short, TIRF invites organizations to sponsor its reference lists – an activity that also helps to promote their visibility via the Foundation’s channels.
The date of this issue of TIRF Today is June 30, 2022. The end of June often feels like the real beginning of summer to me. Typically by then I’ve finished my grading, the commencement ceremony is over, and my former students – like graduates everywhere whose school years end
English language teachers in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela are invited to participate in a free, online language assessment course. The program is being designed by Professors Frank Giraldo (Foreign Languages Department of Universidad de Caldas in Colombia) and Xun Yan (Linguistics Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
In case you missed the announcement about a new opportunity from TIRF in last month’s issue of TIRF Today, we are now offering an initiative in which you can support both the Foundation and our field in a low-cost way while promoting your organization’s visibility via TIRF’s channels. In short,
