TOEFL Grants & Awards
The TOEFL Grants and Awards Committee of the TOEFL Board announces a new award, the TOEFL International Speaker Award. The purpose of this award is to encourage the broad dissemination of information on English language testing and teaching.
The award will provide an organization outside the U.S. or Canada with funds up to $2500 to help support the travel, hotel, and meal expenses of one or more speakers to address issues of English language testing, teaching, or teacher education at a conference outside the U.S./Canada. The conference must take place outside the U.S. or Canada. Up to three awards may be given each year.
Any professional association, organization, or institution may apply for the award to support the expenses of speaker(s).The speaker(s) must be invited to deliver both a plenary address and a follow-up session of discussion or a workshop.
Recognition of TOEFL sponsorship should be made in published conference materials and conference introductions. A copy of the presentation will be published on the TOEFL Web site as soon as possible after the conference, or (b) as soon as possible after it has been published elsewhere.An organization is eligible for funding only once every five years.
The deadlines for submission are August 1 and February 15.
For information on the application process and evaluation criteria, visit the TOEFL Web site or email the TOEFL Grants and Awards Program.
Other available TOEFL Board grants/awards include:
TOEFL SMALL GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
This program makes available small cash awards (approximately $1000 each) to promising students to facilitate the timely completion of their dissertations.Deadline dates: August 1/February 15.
TOEFL SMALL GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT
This program makes available small cash awards (approximately $1000 each) to promising students to facilitate the timely completion of their dissertations.Deadline dates: August 1/February 15.
TOEFL BOARD GRANTS
This grant award program is designed to help support external activities or projects that are related to the field of international education.Deadline for proposal submission: February 15/August 1.
TOEFL PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE AWARD
This award recognizes international students and faculty/staff/administrators who work together to initiate and develop a program involving international education or international educational exchange at a U.S. post-secondary institution.Deadline for proposal submission: August 1.
JACQUELINE A. ROSS DISSERTATION AWARD
This award recognizes doctoral dissertation research that makes a significant and original contribution to knowledge about and/or the use and development of second/foreign language tests and testing.Deadline for receipt of abstract: May 15.
Deadline for receipt of dissertations is August 1.
TOEFL POLICY COUNCIL AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AT TESOL
These awards are offered to TESOL members who are from a country outside the U.S. or Canada who will be first time presenters at the annual TESOL Convention.Deadline: The application deadline will be the same as the TESOL Convention’s Call for Participation.
For more information about any of these awards including calls for proposals, eligibility requirements, submission procedures, application forms and timelines, see the TOEFL Web site at http://www.toefl.org or contact the TOEFL Grants and Awards Program:
TOEFL Program Office, ms 06-L,
P.O. Box 6155,
Princeton, New Jersey 08541
U.S.A.Telephone: (609) 683-2078;
The TOEFL Grants and Awards Committee is chaired by Kathy Plante, Registrar and Director of Admissions, Louisiana State University, Shreveport. The other committee members include:
Fax: (609) 683-2090;
E-mail: kjohnson@ets.org.John Clark, Program Evaluation, Research and Testing (emeritus), Defense Language Institute; Jodi Crandall, Department of Education, University of Maryland – Baltimore County;
Mohammed Dahbi, Department of English, Mohammed V University, Morocco;
Joy Reid, Department of English, University of Wyoming;
G. Richard Tucker, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University.