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From https://www.ets.org/toefl/grants/el_researcher_practitioner_grant

The purpose of the TOEFL English-language Researcher/Practitioner Grant program is to enable practitioners to become involved in ETS's efforts to promote English language learning and to support education and professional development for English-language teachers worldwide through ETS's assessments and services.

The specific goal for the program this year is to compile data from diverse language learning contexts and to summarize these data in order to better understand the complexities of English language learning and teaching. The grantees will be asked to investigate changes in English-proficiency levels in relation to teaching and learning in a particular context by administering the TOEFL iBT® or TOEFL ITP® test at least before and after an instructional period. More specifically, the grantees will be asked to provide information on the instructional program, and student learning and other background characteristics. Grantees will also be encouraged to collect student performance samples (e.g., writing assignments; audio or video recordings of speech) at different intervals during the instructional period. If the instructional period extends beyond one academic semester or quarter (e.g., a series of classes in succession with the same students), grantees are encouraged to consider administering the tests and collecting performance samples throughout the entire instructional period. If needed, ETS will provide support in the quantitative analysis of the data and interpretation of the results.

Successful applicants will receive funding of US$5,000–$10,000. The exact amount of funding will be commensurate with the scope of the particular research project after determining the duration of the instructional period, the frequency of test administrations, the number of students tested, and the amount of other performance data collected.

October 31, 2014 — Deadline for receipt of application materials

For full details go to https://www.ets.org/toefl/grants/el_researcher_practitioner_grant