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DISE PhD Students, Lana F. Zeaiter and John Wayne N. dela Cruz, Win Prestigious International Doctoral Dissertation Grant
Lana F. Zeaiter and John Wayne N. dela Cruz, DISE PhD Candidates in Educational Studies at McGill, are winners of the prestigious 2024 Doctoral Dissertation Grant (DDG) awarded by The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF).
Lana Zeaiter's groundbreaking work is titled Towards Educational Reform: Addressing Teacher Education Challenges with Ecological and Integrative Approaches to Technology-Mediated Plurilingualism. The TIRF DDG award will support Lana's research on deconstructing and reframing teacher training in technology-mediated plurilingualism by providing access to essential resources and enabling the creative dissemination of findings to a wider audience.
John Wayne N. dela Cruz's cutting-edge work is titled From Assimilation to Integration: Legitimizing Immigrant Learners’ Plurilingualism in Canadian Second Language Education. John will use the TIRF DDG award to fund the last stages of his research. Specifically, the award will partially support John’s data analysis and efforts to disseminate findings in academic and public domains.
The TIRF DDG is a highly competitive international award that recognizes excellence in doctoral research in language education. The competition receives over 80 applications annually and only awards on average 12 doctoral students. Out of this year's 13 awardees, we are thrilled that two winners are from the Plurilingual Lab. Both Lana's and John's PhD studies are being supervised by Dr. Angelica Galante.
