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.)

Gavin O’Neill

Gavin O’Neill is an Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. He is pursuing his PhD in Education at Temple University, Japan Campus. In his dissertation, Gavin explores the barriers that professionals and fledgling academics from developing countries face when trying to gain access to and participate in the

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Dildora Khakimova

Dildora Khakimova is a Ph.D. candidate in Teaching and Teacher Education at George Mason University. Her research interests include intercultural competence, internationalization of education, online learning, and multimodal translanguaging. Her research focuses on examining EFL teachers’ attitudes and practices related to and understanding of translanguaging in multilingual contexts. Further information

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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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