Barbara Dobson Latin America Research Grant

Barbara Dobson Latin America Research Grant is a grant from Michigan Language Assessment that ponsor: the spencer foundation title: empirically validating measures of listener attitude and stereotyping in higher educational contexts role: pi (co-pi: dr. Masha Kostromitina) Sponsor: Duolingo (the Duolingo English Test) Title: Investigating the Predictive Validity of the DET Test Scores for Students’ Academic Success at a Tertiary Institution in North America.

Sponsor: The British Council Title: Impacts of young Learners’ Socio-Economic Factors on Their Test Performance Title: Development of attitudinal and stereotyping measures Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Eligible applicants include: Faculty, graduate students, and other language assessment professionals.. Awards are valued at See official notice.

Sponsor: The Spencer Foundation Title: Empirically validating measures of listener attitude and stereotyping in higher educational contexts Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Masha Kostromitina) Sponsor: Duolingo (the Duolingo English Test) Title: Investigating the Predictive Validity of the DET Test Scores for Students’ Academic Success at a Tertiary Institution in North America.

Sponsor: The British Council Title: Impacts of young Learners’ Socio-Economic Factors on Their Test Performance Title: Development of attitudinal and stereotyping measures Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Maria Kostromitina) Sponsor: Duolingo (the Duolingo English Test) Title: Construct and predictive validity of the DET speaking tasks for ITA contexts Role: PI (Co-PIs: Dr. Johh Hansen at UT-Dallas, Co-PI; Dr. Stephen Looney at PSU) Sponsor: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Title: Collaborative Research: Second Language Speech Production: Formulation of Objective Speech Intelligibility Measures and Learner-Specific Feedback Role: PI (Co-PI: Dr. Maria Gutierrez Nelly Arvizu) Sponsor: The TOEFL Young Students Series Research Grants, ETS Title: Learners’ Score Gains in the TOEFL Primary Tests and their English Language Progressions.

Sponsor: The British Council Title: Equality, diversity, and inclusion: Different varieties of accents in Aptis English listening tests Title: FY2023 TRIF Student Mentor ed Research Training Grant Sponsor: The IELTS Joint Funded Research Program, IELTS Title: Speaking and writing features: Distinguishing IELTS proficiency levels and progression over time Role: PI (Dr. Johh Hansen at UT-Dallas, Co-PI; Dr. Stephen Looney at PSU, Co-PI) Sponsor: The National Science Foundation (NSF), RETTL Title: Collaborative research: Second Language Speech Production: Formulation of Objective Speech Intelligibility Measures and Learner-Specific Feedback Sponsor: The Duolingo Competitive Research Grants program, Duolingo Title: Fairness of using different accents in Duolingo listening tasks Sponsor: The IELTS Joint Funded Research Program, IELTS Title: Test takers’ attitudes and perceptions towards IELTS and the use of technologies in IELTS preparation and tests Sponsor: The Barbara Dobson Latin America Research Grant, the Michigan English Language Assessment Title: Relationship between Latino learners’ language growth and score gain on MET Go!

over time Title: Development of second language speech corpus Sponsor: The Alianza Inter-Universitaria Sonora-Arizona, Fondo de Apoyo para el Fomento de la Investigación sobre la Región Sonora-Arizona Title: Relationship between Young English Language Learners’ Backgrounds and their Proficiency in English Sponsor: Research Bridge or Seeds Awards, NAU Title: Developing an Affective Interactive Oral Communication Tutor Sponsor: College of Arts and Letters Research Grants Sponsor: The IELTS Research Grants and Awards, IELTS Title: Investigation of Relationship among Learner Background, Linguistic Progression, and Score Gain on IELTS Sponsor: The Language Learning Grant Title: The Language Learning Roundtable conference program, Language Learning Sponsor: Scholarly Creativity Award, NAU Title: Linguistic analysis of spoken discourse Sponsor: The Global and Interdisciplinary Research Fund Program, CIE, NAU Title: Application development for prosody-based automated scoring systems Sponsor: The British Council Research Grants Title: Linguistic analysis of speaking performance and automated extraction Sponsor: The iBT TOEFL Committee of Examiners (COE) Research Grants, ETS Title: Intelligibility of Different Varieties of English in the TOEFL iBT Listening Test Sponsor: Technology Research Investment Fund (TRIF), Arizona Board of Regents Title: Development of communicative features in automated speech systems Sponsor: The 2014 NAU Scholarly and Creative Arts award Title: Communication enhancement among high school students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds Sponsor: The Cambridge English Language Assessment Title: Impact of Different Task Types on Candidates’ Speaking Performances and Interactive Features that Distinguish between CEFR Levels Sponsor: The TOEFL Board Grants, ETS Title: Enhancing communication between U.S. undergraduates and international students through structured contact activities Sponsor: NAU Faculty Grant Program Title: Enhancing communication between U.S. undergraduates and international students Sponsor: The TOEFL Board Grants, ETS Title: Cultural immersion in study abroad programs Role: Co-PI (PI: Shelley Staples) Sponsor: The University of Virginia Title: Impact of collaborative project-based intercultural interaction.

Institutional assessment and studies Sponsor: The PIE Research Grant Title: Demonstrating PIE students’ linguistic gains in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary Sponsor: Faculty Grant Program, NAU Title: Thresholds of second language study for overseas immersion Sponsor: The Cambridge English Language Assessment Title: Linguistic Analysis of Speaking Features Distinguishing General English Exams at CEFR levels B1 to C2 and Examinee L1 Backgrounds Sponsor: The TOEFL Board Grants, ETS Title: Thresholds of second language study for overseas immersion Sponsor: The TOEFL Board Grants, ETS Title: Students’ Individual Characteristics that Predict Success in Studying Languages Abroad Sponsor: Faculty Grant Program, NAU Title: Undergraduate Students’ Individual Characteristics that Predict Success in Studying Languages Abroad Sponsor: College of Arts and Letters (CAL) summer research grant, NAU Title: Validation of oral proficiency test Role: Consultant and Linguistic analyst Sponsor: The TOEFL COE Research Grant, ETS Title: Acoustic analysis as part of the project, TOEFL COE Research Grant Role: Consultant and Linguistic analyst Sponsor: Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education (CASIE) Fund Sponsor: The iBT TOEFL COE Research Grants, ETS Title: Impact of rater background and acoustic analysis of speech Sponsor: The Spaan Fellowship Fund Title: Impact of rater background and acoustic analysis of speech in international teaching assistant’s oral performance 04/2021 Recipient, President’s Award for Faculty and Academic Professionals , 2021-2022 03/2020 Recipient, Research and Creative Activity NAU 2020 Award for Graduate Research Mentorship 09/2018 500 Women Scientists 06/2016 Recipient, Scholar selected for Language Learning Scholar-in-Residence 05/2013 Recipient, TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award by the TOEFL Grants and Awards based on the numerous professional activities and contributions to the field of language assessment.

09/2012 Recipient, “Most Promising New Scholar at NAU” award. For the demonstration of outstanding achievement in the areas of research, innovation, international scope, collaboration, productivity, external funding, etc. 06/2010 Recipient, Winner of Christopher Brumfit PhD/Ed. D.

Thesis 2009 Award by Cambridge University Press and Journal of Language Teaching: Highly competitive both nationally and internationally. The dissertation was recognized for its significant and original contribution to the field of SLA and/or FL teaching and learning.

01/2010 Finalist, Jacqueline Ross TOEFL® Dissertation 2009 Award Finalist by Educational Testing Service: The dissertation was recognized for its contribution to knowledge about second or foreign language tests and testing and/or the use and development of such tests and testing. 03/2008 University of Georgia Dissertation Award 12/2005 Virginia Macagone QUIG Scholarship: 2006 Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Conference.

02/2005 Louise McBee Scholarship, Georgia Association for Women in Education 03/2003 M. A. First Class Honors, the University of Auckland 09/2002 Auckland University Partnership Awards, the University of Auckland.

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