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.)

Aicha Rahal

Aicha Rahal is a doctoral student at Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary, as well as a researcher in linguistics celebrating a decade of research (2014-2024). Her scholarly interests include language pedagogy, sociolinguistics, language policy, and psycholinguistics. She is the author of many research papers and of two forthcoming books on

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Anastasiia Gorlova

Anastasiia (Asya) Gorlova is a doctoral candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation explores the knowledge, experiences, and ideologies of ESL teachers in adult refugee and migrant-serving programs across the US. Based on her research, she will develop evidence-based training materials to support

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