Each year, our SLR SIG honors outstanding scholarship and service through three awards celebrating excellence and leadership in the field. These awards highlight the creativity and impact of our members whose work continues to shape and inspire the field of language education. Please consider nominating your colleagues and students for the following awards:
2. AERA 2026 SLR SIG Mid-Career Award: Call for Nomination
This award honors an outstanding scholar who has developed a research agenda for between six and 15 years beyond the conferral of the doctoral degree. The award is designed to recognize an individual with a promising program of research on significant issues reflecting the purpose and goals of the Second Language Research SIG: (1) to advance knowledge related to second language education; (2) to encourage scholarly inquiry related to second language education; and (3) to promote the use of research to improve teaching and learning. The award recipient will be officially recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting in 2026 and will be invited to give a brief address during our SIG business meeting.
3. AERA 2026 SLR SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award: Call for Nomination
The Second Language Research Special Interest Group of AERA honors an outstanding dissertation completed during each calendar year. The award recipient will be officially recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting in 2026 and will be invited to present their study during our SIG business meeting.
Eligibility: Candidates must have completed and filed their dissertation between January 1, 2024 and November 15, 2025. Candidates do not need to be members of the Second Language Research SIG at time of nomination, but membership is required for the Dissertation Award winner.
2024 Award Winners
2023 Award Winners
2023 Winners - SIG-sponsored financial support to attend the meeting(s)
Graduate Student Travel Awards
Conference Registration Sponsorships
Graduate student recipients
Early-career scholar recipients
2022 Award Winners
2021 Winners
2020 Winners
2019 Winners
2018 Winners
2015 Winners
2014 Winners (awarded in 2015)
2013 Winner
2012 Winners