2016 Awardees
The ACTFL/NFMLTA/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education
Tara w. fortune and diane j. tedick, University of Minnesota. “Oral proficiency assessment of English-proficient K–8 Spanish immersion students” Modern Language Journal, 99, 4, 637–655 (2016)
The ACTFL/NFMLTA/MLJ Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in Foreign Language Education
Sarah young, Ph.D., Georgetown University (American University). “Reframing metalinguistic awareness for low literate L2 learners: Four case studies”
NFMLTA/MLJ Dissertation Support Grants
- Laura Hamman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. “Bilingualism for all?: Interrogating language and equity in dual language education”
- Hyung-Jo Yoon, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. “Investigating the interactions among genre, task complexity, and proficiency in L2 writing: A comprehensive text analysis and study of learner perceptions”
- Ju Seong Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Informal, digital learning of English: The case of Korean university students”
The NFMLTA/NCOLCTL Graduate Students Research Support Award
- Myriam Abdel-Malek, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. “A genre-based approach to teaching writing in Arabic: A mixed method investigation”
- Miaochun Wei (魏妙純), George Washington University, Washington, DC. “The practice of placement procedures of less commonly taught languages at U.S. postsecondary Institutions: In the Chinese case”
- Xin Zhang, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. “Using literary language in spoken discourse: Native speaker perceptions and pedagogical insights for advanced level Chinese language learner”
- Renot Hendryanti, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. “The impact of an intensive professional development institute on Chinese teachers’ transfer of training into their U.S. classrooms”
- Shinsuke Tsuchiya, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. “The construct and effects of the native speaker fallacy in a U.S. university Japanese language program”
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