Doctoral Dissertation Grant

TIRF DDG recipients

Recipients and Findings

The Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) was held online this year from June 14 to 17, and as has been the custom for several years, TIRF was represented there. At the awards ceremony, plaques were given to seven TIRF Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) recipients – five 2019 TIRF DDG recipients and two 2020 awardees. (Since last year’s LTRC event was cancelled due to the pandemic, recognizing the 2019 grantees was not possible.)

Minkyung Kim

Minkyung Kim Doctoral Institution: Georgia State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Assessing English Writing in Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study

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Qie Han

Qie Han Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Investigating the Combined Effects of Rater Expertise, Working Memory Capacity, and Cognitive Functionality on the Scoring of Second Language Speaking Performance

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Panjanit Chaipuapae (TIRF’s 2018 Russell N. Campbell Awardee)

Panjanit Chaipuapae (Russell N. Campbell Award Winner) Doctoral Institution: Northern Arizona University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment | Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Accents and Workplace Listening Comprehension of Thai Undergraduates in Asian ELF Contexts

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Ruth Rouvier

Ruth Rouvier Doctoral Institution: Universiy of California, Berkeley TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Research on Revitalization of Endangered Indigenous Languages Dissertation Title: Yurok Language Revitalization: Affective Stance and Language Learning

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Wei Yan

Wei Yan Doctoral Institution: Queen’s University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: An Argument-Based Approach to the Validity of Interpretation and Use of Chinese High School Students’ Grades across Educational Contexts

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Wenjing (Wendy) Li

Wenjing (Wendy) Li Doctoral Institution: Michigan State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Tracing Chinese Transnational English Learners’ Language Learning across Digital Spaces and First-Year Writing: A Language Socialization Perspective

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Yecid Ortega

Yecid Ortega Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Teaching English to Young Learners Dissertation Title: Pedagogies of Be[ing] and Be[coming]: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study to Understanding Youth Experiences of Social Justice and Peacebuilding in English Teaching in Urban Schooling in Colombia

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Nga Nguyen

Nga Nguyen Doctoral Institution: Edith Cowan University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: An Evaluation Study of an English for Academic Purposes Program in a Vietnamese University

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Chaoran Wang

Chaoran Wang Doctoral Institution: Indiana University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Examining Synchronous Hybrid English Learning for Children in Rural China: A Hybrid Ethnographic Study

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Pakize Uludag

Pakize Uludag Doctoral Institution: Concordia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Developing and Validating a Rubric for Assessing the Construct of Integration in L2 Integrated Writing Tasks

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Amanda Earl

Amanda Earl Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Endangerment and Revitalization Dissertation Title: Understanding Roles and Meanings of an Intercultural Higher Education for Rural Youth and Communities in Mexico

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Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan

Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan Doctoral Institution: University of British Columbia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: English for Academic Purposes in Canada: Practitioners’ Construction of Assessment Literacy and Practices

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Ayşenur Sağdıç

Ayşenur Sağdıç Doctoral Institution: Georgetown University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Learning by Simulating: Second Language Pragmatic Development in a Technology-Mediated Task-Based Simulation with Feedback

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