TOEFL® Grant and Award Recipients
Samuel Messick Memorial Lecture Award
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Dr. John Michael Linacre | Winsteps |
| 2010 | Michael Kane | ETS |
| 2009 | Lorrie A. Shepard | University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 2008 | James Dean Brown | University of Hawai’i, Manoa |
| 2007 | Robert J. Mislevy | University of Maryland |
| 2006 | Mark Wilson | University of California, Berkeley |
| 2005 | Bruno Zumbo | University of British Columbia |
| 2004 | Eva Baker | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 2003 | Patricia Broadfoot | University of Bristol |
| 2002 | Geoffrey Masters | Australian Council for Educational Research |
Jacqueline A. Ross Dissertation Award
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Kirby Cook Grabowski | Teachers College, Columbia University |
| 2010 | Alister van Moere Dissertation Adviser – Charles Alderson |
Lancaster University |
| 2009 | Spiros Papageorgiou Dissertation Adviser – Charles Alderson |
Lancaster University |
| 2008 | Guoxing Yu Dissertation Adviser – Pauline Rea-Dickins |
University of Bristol |
| 2007 | Usman Erdosy Dissertation Adviser – Alister Cumming |
University of Toronto |
| 2006 | Eunice Eunhee Jang Dissertation Adviser – Fred Davidson |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2005 | Annie Brown | University of Melbourne |
| 2004 | Mikyung Kim Wolf | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 2003 | Janna Fox | Carleton University |
| 2002 | Thomas Lumley | University of Melbourne |
| 2001 | Dianne Wall | University of Lancaster |
| 2000 | Angela Hasselgren | University of Bergen |
| 1999 | Liying Cheng | University of Hong Kong |
| 1998 | Brian North | Thames Valley University |
| 1997 | Dorry Mann Kenyon | University of Maryland |
| 1996 | Caroline Clapham Sara Cushing Weigle |
University of Lancaster University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 1995 | Craig W. Deville | Ohio State University |
| 1994 | Antony John Kunnan | University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 1993 | Gary S. Buck | University of Lancaster |
TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dr. Aek Phakiti | The University of Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 | Paul Matsuda | University of New Hampshire |
| 2003 | Christine Coombe | Dubai Men's College — Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| 2001 | Micheline Chalhoub-Deville | University of Iowa |
2011 TOEFL Board Grants
| Recipient |
|---|
| Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) |
| Northern Arizona University — 2nd year |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota — 2nd year |
2011 TOEFL Small Grants for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment
| Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|
| Larry Davis | University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Jia-Ying Lee | The University of Iowa |
| Katharina Schuhmann | SUNY Stonybrook |
| Sara Ashley Smith | University of Oxford |
| Maryam Wagner | University of Toronto |
| Jong-il Yi | University of Leicester |
| Kyung-Ah Yu | Ewha Womans University |
2011 TOEFL International Speaker Award
| Conference | Location |
|---|---|
| Facultad de Idiomas, Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca | Mexico |
| MATE-TESOL Haiti | Haiti |
| TESOL/Beijing Normal University | Beijing, China |
2011 TESOL Awards for International Participation at TESOL
| Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|
| Zhenjing Wang | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Francois Vilmenay | Haitian American Institute |
| Aymen Elsheikh | Qatar University |
| Amina Megheirbi | University of Garyounis in Libya |
2011 Library and Resource Center Award
| Center Name | Location |
|---|---|
| The Library, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Altiplano | Solola, Guatemala |
| De La Salle University Library | Manila, Philippines |
| Institute of Philology, Sumy State A. S. Makarenko University | Sumy, Ukraine |
TOEFL Committee of Examiners Research Grants
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Khaled Barkaoui | York University, Canada | An Investigation of the Impact of Computer Skills on Test-Takers' Writing Processes and Scores in the TOEFL® iBT Writing Section |
| 2010 | Deena Boraie | The American University in Cairo, Egypt | Investigating the Use of English Language Proficiency Assessments for Admissions and Placement in English-Medium Universities in the Arabic-Speaking Countries |
| 2010 | April Ginther Catherine Elder |
Purdue University, USA University of Melbourne, Australia |
A Comparative Investigation into Understandings and Uses of TOEFL iBT & IELTS (Academic) in U.S. and Australia: A Case Study of Two University Contexts |
| 2010 | Yasuyo Sawaki | Waseda University, Japan | Investigating the Relative Effectiveness of Various Types of Performance Feedback on Reading Performance for TOEFL iBT Test Preparation |
| 2010 | Merrill Swain | University of Toronto, Canada | Comparing TOEFL iBT Speaking Tasks with Performance on Real-life Academic Speaking Tasks |
| 2010 | Guoxing Yu | University of Bristol, UK | Preparing for TOEFL iBT Speaking Tasks — An Investigation of the iBT-ed Journeys of Chinese Test-Takers |