Grant Type: Doctoral Dissertation Grant

Junko Hondo Doctoral Institution: University of Pennsylvania TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Grammar Dissertation Title: Constructing Knowledge in SLA: The Role of Timing of Form-focused Intervention

Andrea Revesz (TIRF’s 2006 Russell N. Campbell Awardee) Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Grammar Dissertation Title: Focus on Form in Task-based Language Teaching: Recasts, Task Complexity, and L2 Learning

Antonella Valeo (Russell N. Campbell Awardee) Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Grammar Dissertation Title: The Integration of Language and Content: Form-focused Instruction in a Content-based Language Program

Yasuyo Tomita Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Grammar Dissertation Title: The Role of Form-Focused Instruction: Learner Investment in L2 Communication

Sang-Ki Lee Doctoral Institution: University of Hawai‘i at Manoa TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Grammar Dissertation Title: Salience, Frequency, and Aptitude in the Learning of Unaccusativity in a Second Language: An Input Enhancement Study

Polina Vinogradova (Russell N. Campbell Awardee) Doctoral Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: Digital Storytelling in ESL Instruction: Identity Negotiation through a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

Zhuo Li Doctoral Institution: University of Florida TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Digital Technology in Language Education Dissertation Title: An Exploration into the Writing Ability of Generation 1.5 and International Second Language Writers: A Mixed Methods Approach

Youn-Hee Kim Doctoral Institution: University of Toronto TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: An Argument-based Validity Inquiry into Empirically-derived Descriptor-based Diagnostic (EDD) Assessment in ESL Academic Writing

Kristen di Gennaro Doctoral Institution: Teachers College, Columbia University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Adolescent English Language Learners’ Second Language Literacy Engagement in World of Warcraft (WoW)

Erin Marie McCloskey Doctoral Institution: Harvard University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Planning & Policy Dissertation Title: Online Professional Development and Intercultural Competence: A Qualitative Study of Learning Processes and Outcomes

Cecilia Guangfang Zhao (Russell N. Campbell Awardee) Doctoral Institution: New York University TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: The Role of Voice in High-stakes Second Language Writing Assessment

Zhiling Wu Doctoral Institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Washback Effects of the Reformed CET-4 on College English Teaching and Learning in China: Students’ Perspectives

Tomohisa Machida Doctoral Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Teacher Education Dissertation Title: Teaching English for the First Time: Anxiety Among Japanese Elementary School Teachers

Soodeh Eghtesad Doctoral Institution: Sorbonne Universtity TIRF Research Topic Investigated: Language Assessment Dissertation Title: Cultural Implications of Assessment Procedures in English, French and Persian as a Foreign or Second Language Classes in the USA, France and Iran