A number of TIRF’s Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) awardees have recently submitted their final reports to TIRF. In this piece, we share information about those grantees’ studies. Click on any of the grantees’ names to read summaries of their doctoral work.

Chris Bacon

  • Title of Project: Language Ideology and Policy Interpretation: A Critical Policy Analysis of a State-level Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement Mandate
  • Doctoral Institution: Boston College
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Planning & Policy
  • Year Awarded: 2018

Eloise Caporal-Ebersold

  • Title of Project: Language Policy and Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): A Case Study of an English-French Bilingual Crèche in Strasbourg
  • Doctoral Institution: Université de Strasbourg
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Planning & Policy
  • Year Awarded: 2014

Ron Darvin

  • Title of Project: Digital Identities, Educational Inequities: Investigating Social Class and New Literacies of Migrant Filipino Youth in the Knowledge Economy
  • Doctoral Institution: University of British Columbia
  • TIRF Research Priority: Digital Technology in Language Education
  • Year Awarded: 2016

Iftikhar Haider

  • Title of Project: Re-Envisioning Assessment of Inter-language Pragmatics (ILP) through Computer Mediated Communicative Tasks
  • Doctoral Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Assessment
  • Year Awarded: 2014

Tabitha Kidwell

  • Title of Project: A Cultural Balancing Act: The Learning, Beliefs, and Practices of Novice Indonesian Teachers of English
  • Doctoral Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Teacher Education
  • Year Awarded: 2017

Mikako Nishikawa

  • Title of Project: Test-takers’ Cognitive Processes While Synthesizing Multiple Texts and Graphs
  • Doctoral Institution: University of Bristol
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Assessment
  • Year Awarded: 2016

Nicole Pettitt

  • Title of Project: Social Positioning in Refugee-Women’s Education: A Linguistic Ethnography of One English Class
  • Doctoral Institution: Georgia State University
  • TIRF Research Priority: Language Planning & Policy
  • Year Awarded: 2016

Please join us in congratulating these grantees on finishing their studies!