Angélica Montoya-Ávila Doctoral Institution: University of Maryland – College Park TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English | Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Newcomer High Schoolers’ Writing Development through Participatory Action Research

Carolina Fabiola Arias Contreras Doctoral Institution: The University of Queensland TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Content-based Instruction Dissertation Title: English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in the Field of Agriculture: From Needs Analysis to ESP Task Design and Implementation

Chiara Bruzzano Doctoral Institution: University of Leeds TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Teachers’ and Learners’ Beliefs about Listening in English as a Foreign Language: A Multiple Case Study in an Italian Secondary School

Amy Kim Doctoral Institution: Georgetown University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Rethinking Post-Entry Language Assessment Policies in U.S. Higher Education: A Socially Responsible Approach

Kathy MinHye Kim Doctoral Institution: Michigan State University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Exploring the Interface of Explicit and Implicit Second-Language Knowledge: A Longitudinal Perspective

Kendi Ho Doctoral Institution: University of Hawai’i TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Health Communication in Home Care for Elders in Hawai‘i

Celia Reddick Doctoral Institution: Harvard University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English Dissertation Title: Language for an Unknowable Future: How Language Ideologies and Pedagogies Shape the Lives of Refugee Children

Bingjie Zheng Doctoral Institution: University of Wisconsin – Madison TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Appropriating and Legitimating Chinese-English Dual Language Education: Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Language Policy, Repertoires, and Socialization

Heesun Chang Doctoral Institution: The University of Georgia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Multidimensional Analysis of Linguistic Features of International Teaching Assistants: Linguistic-level Authenticity in ITA Assessment

Hyunah Kim Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Content-based Instruction Dissertation Title: Differential Item Functioning Due to Cultural Familiarity on Reading Achievement Test: Does the Length of Residence Matter?

Jade Kim Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Plurilingualism in Business, Industry, the Professions, and Educational Contexts Dissertation Title: Seminars as Communities of Practice: The Structural Analysis of Four Graduate-Level Seminars and the Spoken Participation Experiences of International Students in a Canadian University

Lei Jiang Doctoral Institution: University of Georgia TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Migrants and Refugees: Teaching and Assessing English Dissertation Title: English Learner Students and College Access in the US: Analyzing Thirty Years of Evidence from the National Secondary School Longitudinal Studies

Mama Adobea Nii Owoo (Russell N. Campbell Award Winner) Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Language Policy as Personal Experience: Rereading Medium of Instruction policy in Ghana

Tsung-han Weng Doctoral Institution: University of Kansas TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Global and Multicultural Education as Policy: An Ecological Study of Taiwan High School EFL Education