Phan Nhu Hien Luong Doctoral Institution: University of New South Wales TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: A Case Study of the Support Needs of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers at Foreign Language Centers in Vietnam
Sonca Vo Doctoral Institution: Iowa State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Effects of Task Types on Interactional Competence in Oral Communication Assessment
Yoo Young Ahn Doctoral Institution: Indiana University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Analysis of Classroom Dynamics in a Teaching Methods Course: An EFL Teacher Educator’s Beliefs and Instructional Decisions about Teaching English in South Korea
Apichat Khamboonruang Doctoral Institution: University of Melbourne TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Development and Validation of a Diagnostic Rating Scale for an EFL University Writing Classroom
Chris Bacon Doctoral Institution: Boston College TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Language Ideology and Policy Interpretation: A Critical Policy Analysis of a State-level Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement Mandate
Jenna Altherr Flores Doctoral Institution: University of Arizona TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Social Semiotics and Literacy: How Refugee-Background Adult Second Language Learners with Emerging Literacy Make Meaning in Multimodal Assessment Texts
Kevin Wong Doctoral Institution: New York University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: The Promise of Educational Media for Dual-language Learners’ L1 and L2 Vocabulary Development
Lara Bryfonski Doctoral Institution: Georgetown University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Task-based Teacher Training: Implementation and Evaluation in Central American Bilingual Schools
Leanne Cameron Doctoral Institution: University of Bristol TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: “Looking out”: Neoliberal Discourses and English Language Teacher Professionalism
Laura Kennedy Doctoral Institution: Michigan Sate University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: 쌤 [Ssam; teacher] I am: An (Auto)Ethnographic Exploration of Novice EFL Teachers’ Imagined and Enacted Teacher Identities in South Korea
Meichan Huang Doctoral Institution: Texas A&M University – Commerce TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: An Investigation of the Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Speakers of Inner-, Outer-, and Expanding-circles of English by Listeners of Similar and Different Backgrounds
Maria Treadaway Doctoral Institution: The University of Auckland TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Developing and Validating Diagnostic Speaking and Listening Tests for Ab Initio Cadet Pilots
Mingxia Zhi Doctoral Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Investigating the Authenticity of Paper- and Computer-Based ESL Writing Tests
Nora Lang Doctoral Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English Dissertation Title: “Vamos Juntos en esto”: Peer Interaction and Affordances for Language Development among Adolescent Newcomers in Language and Content Classrooms
