Please consider nominating colleagues, mentors, or recent graduates to the corresponding awards for recognition at the 2024 AERA annual meeting: Dissertation, Mid-Career, and Leadership through Research. Please see here for the details of the nomination processes and criteria.
The Leadership Through Research Award
Nominees will be evaluated based upon the following criteria:
(1) Active and long-standing role in the field of second language research;
(2) Highly respected and recognized both nationally and internationally as a leader in the field on issues critical to second language education;
(3) Engaged in original and innovative research and/or materials development recognized by experts as having a major impact on our understanding of second language education;
(4) Supports other scholars, particularly new and younger scholars, in furthering their research and teaching in the field through mentoring, collaborative research, professional development, and other similar activities.
(5) Their work has (directly and/or indirectly) had an impact on equity and access for second language learners and their teachers.
The Mid-Career Award
(1) The nominated mid-career researchers must have developed a clear and coherent research agenda (over 6-15 years beyond the conferral of the doctoral degree)
(2) The nominated mid-career researchers will be evaluated on the aims, potential outcomes, and the overall degree to which their research advances knowledge in the field of second language research, promotes equity and access for students, teachers, teacher educators, communities, and/or families, and influences the creation, collection, and analysis of data.
(3) The nominated mid-career researchers must demonstrate a strong record of publications that reaches audiences in peer-reviewed research journals and/or practitioner-oriented journals, widely-disseminated reports from professional organizations, or scholarly books published by university or other academic presses.
(4) Nominees do not have to be Second Language Research SIG members at the time of nomination; however, the award winner will be strongly encouraged to join the SIG if not already a member.
The Outstanding Dissertation Award
The award goes to the dissertation research that best demonstrates the following criteria:
(a) solid theoretical base,
(b) sound methodology and data collection,
(c) originality, and
(d) promising contribution to the field of second language research.
2024 Winners
Leadership Through Research Award (co-recipients):
Dr. Maria Coady, Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity and Professor of Multilingual Education at North Carolina State University.
Dr. Megan Madigan Peercy, Special Assistant to Provost and Professor of Language, Literacy, & Social Inquiry, and Teacher Education & Professional Development, University of Maryland, College Park.
Committee: Dr. Deb Palmer (chair); Dr. Kellie Rolstad; and Dr. Manka Varghese
Mid-Career Award (co-recipients):
Dr. Maneka Brooks, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Educator Preparation and Associate Professor of Reading Education, College of Education, Texas State University.
Dr. Kellie Rolstad, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park.
Committee: Dr. Nihat Polat (co-chair); Dr. Yuliya Ardasheva (co-chair); Dr. Becky H. Huang; and Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar
Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Dr. Martha Sandstead, College of Education, Oregon State University.
Dissertation title "Transformative pedagogies of voice: Creating the conditions of voice in bilingual students' writing"
Committee: Dr. Caitlin G. Fine (co-chair); Dr. Christine Montecillo Leider (co-chair); Dr. Fares J Karam (co-chair)
2023 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 Winners
2021 Winners
2020 Winners
2019 Winners
2018 Winners
2015 Winners
2014 Winners (awarded in 2015)
2013 Winner
2012 Winners