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Welcome to TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators—a video series spotlighting real educators exploring AI tools that support language teaching and learning. Each resource offers practical demonstrations, classroom-ready takeaways, and educator insights to help you understand how generative AI can enhance instruction, assessment, curriculum design, and learner engagement.

In this video, Ana Clara Petersen shares a focused walkthrough of Microsoft Copilot. You’ll discover key features, step-by-step examples, and tips for applying this tool in your own teaching practice.

Use this link to access the Teacher’s Review Card that accompanies this video: Microsoft Copilot_Review Card_Ana Clara Petersen

📌 Learn more about the background of the AI Show & Tell series:
Introducing TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators

TIRF’s DDG Fellows hosted a one-hour webinar designed to assist prospective Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) applicants as they prepare their proposals for the 2025 DDG program. Moderated by Ryan Damerow, TIRF's Chief Operating Officer, the panel featured the following TIRF DDG Fellows: Alisha Biler (Boyce College), Beth Clark-Gareca (Binghamton University), Tabitha Kidwell (American University), Jonathan Malone (University of Maryland, College Park), Bedrettin Yazan (The University of Texas at San Antonio), and Ying Zhang (University of Utah). Learn about TIRF's DDG program here: https://www.tirfonline.org/doctoral-dissertation-grants/.

Michael Carrier at 2010 TESOL Convention – Michael Carrier (March 2010)

In this interview, we get to hear from Fiodhna Gardiner-Hyland on how their experience with receiving a TIRF grant affected their personal and academic journeys.
Fiodhna Gardiner-Hyland shares about their research on teacher education, their thoughts on English language education, and observations about TIRF.
To learn more about TIRF, visit the TIRF website or scan any of the QR codes at the end of the video!

TIRF’s AI Show & Tell initiative—introduced as a practical, educator-driven exploration of AI in English language teaching—now features a growing library of short videos and accompanying scorecards available on the TIRF website. Through these resources, educators from diverse contexts demonstrate tools such as ResearchRabbit, Atlas, TurboScribe, Connected Papers, and others, offering concrete classroom applications alongside structured “Teacher Review Cards” that highlight each tool’s key features, best uses, limitations, and instructional value. This video features a webinar hosted by four of TIRF's AIstronauts, who build on their insights and engage directly with webinar participants.
To learn more about TIRF's AI initiatives and to see the videos and review cards in the TIRF AI Show & Tell series, please visit:
TIRF AI Show & Tell Initiative

TIRF at 2018 TESOL: Language Planning & Policy (March 2018)

TIRF Grantee Joyce Kling Soren

A Case for Online English Language Teacher Education – Denise Murray (March 2013)

TIRF Grantee Ching-Ni Hsieh

In this interview, we get to hear from Gautam Bisht on how their experience with receiving a TIRF grant affected their personal and academic journeys.
Gautam Bisht shares about their research on decolonizing knowledge in classrooms, their thoughts on English language education, and observations about TIRF.
To learn more about TIRF, visit the TIRF website or scan any of the QR codes at the end of the video!

Welcome to TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators—a video series spotlighting real educators exploring AI tools that support language teaching and learning. Each resource offers practical demonstrations, classroom-ready takeaways, and educator insights to help you understand how generative AI can enhance instruction, assessment, curriculum design, and learner engagement.

In this video, Dao Xuan Phuong Trang shares a focused walkthrough of Manus AI. You’ll discover key features, step-by-step examples, and tips for applying this tool in your own teaching practice.

Use this link to access the Teacher’s Review Card that accompanies this video: Manus AI_Review Card_Dao Xuan Phuong Trang

📌Explore more videos from TIRF’s AI Show & Tell series:
TIRF AI Show & Tell Initiative

📌Learn more about the background of the AI Show & Tell series:
Introducing TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators

This video features the acceptance speech by the co-recipients of TIRF’s 2026 James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts, Dr. Scott E. Grapin and Ms. Eunae Kim. Their prize-winning article is entitled “District Supervisors’ Sensemaking and Implementation of English Language Development Standards: WIDA 2020 Edition” (2025, AERA Open, Sage).

Learn more about the TIRF Alatis Prize: View here

TIRF’s DDG Fellows hosted a one-hour webinar designed to assist prospective Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) applicants as they prepare their proposals for the 2026 DDG program. Moderated by Ryan Damerow, TIRF's Chief Operating Officer, the panel featured the following TIRF DDG Fellows:

- -Gavin O’Neil, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University;
-Ying Zhang, Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University;
-Tabitha Kidwell, Faculty Member, TESOL Program, American University.

Learn about TIRF's DDG program here:
https://www.tirfonline.org/doctoral-dissertation-grants/

Welcome to TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators—a video series spotlighting real educators exploring AI tools that support language teaching and learning. Each resource offers practical demonstrations, classroom-ready takeaways, and educator insights to help you understand how generative AI can enhance instruction, assessment, curriculum design, and learner engagement.

In this video, Onur Burns (University of California, Riverside) shares a focused walkthrough of SchoolAI. You’ll discover key features, step-by-step examples, and tips for applying this tool in your own teaching practice. Use this link to access the Teacher’s Review Card that accompanies this video: School AI Review Card_Onur Burns

📌 Learn more about the background of the AI Show & Tell series: Introducing TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators

Chinese Perspective on English: Current Status and Future Trends – By Jun Liu (March 2011)

TIRF Research on Integrating Language and Content in Diverse Contexts (TESOL 2023 Presentation)

TIRF Grantee Katie Bernstein

Welcome to TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators—a video series spotlighting real educators exploring AI tools that support language teaching and learning. Each resource offers practical demonstrations, classroom-ready takeaways, and educator insights to help you understand how generative AI can enhance instruction, assessment, curriculum design, and learner engagement.

In this video, Raquel Ribeiro shares a focused walkthrough of Google Gemini. You’ll discover key features, step-by-step examples, and tips for applying this tool in your own teaching practice.

📌 Learn more about the background of the AI Show & Tell series: Introducing TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators

A Paradigm Shift in Democratizing Learning Access – TIRF’s 2014 TESOL Panel Presentation (March 2014)

Welcome to TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators—a video series spotlighting real educators exploring AI tools that support language teaching and learning. Each resource offers practical demonstrations, classroom-ready takeaways, and educator insights to help you understand how generative AI can enhance instruction, assessment, curriculum design, and learner engagement.

In this video, Onur Burns shares a focused walkthrough of ATLAS.ti. You’ll discover key features, step-by-step examples, and tips for applying this tool in your own teaching practice.

Use this link to access the Teacher’s Review Card that accompanies this video: ATLAS.ti_Review Card_Onur Burns

📌Explore more videos from TIRF’s AI Show & Tell series:
TIRF AI Show & Tell Initiative

📌Learn more about the background of the AI Show & Tell series:
Introducing TIRF’s AI Show & Tell: Practical AI for English Language Educators