Awards


Emerging Scholar Award

 

About the Award

The Language and Social Processes SIG seeks to support outstanding scholarship among doctoral students through its Emerging Scholar Award. 


 

Eligibility

LSP SIG members who are graduate students are eligible to apply. Candidates are to submit texts that focus on language and social processes in education to the LSP SIG award committee. The text may be a paper, a web page, or related product and may have been recently published or considered publishable. The text topics must focus upon language and social processes in education and must be considered scholarly products, such as empirical research studies, theoretical papers, reviews of research, or considerations of educational practice, among other texts.

Any AERA member may nominate a candidate, who must be a member of the LSP SIG (joining the SIG at the time of nomination is permitted).



Materials to Submit 

The application packet will include the nominating letter, a cover letter from the candidate, a vita, and a hard copy of the text. The writing sample should focus on language and social processes in education. This may be a paper, a digital resource, or related product created by the scholar. Papers may have been recently published or considered publishable (doctoral students may submit papers for past or potential conference presentations; early scholars should submit texts that are published or publishable). Topics of writing samples must focus on language and social processes in education, broadly defined. These may include empirical research studies, theoretical papers, reviews of research, or considerations of educational practice, among others. The cover letter written by the candidate should address the significance of the writing sample and their related scholarship to language and social processes research in education. The nominating letter should address the candidate’s merit as an emerging scholar in the field of language and social processes research.


 

Applications will be assessed by the following criteria:

 Overall quality; extent to which the topic addresses language and social processes of education; and significance for research, theory, and/or practice. The committee will also consider the candidates' scholarship history as evidenced in their curriculum vita, the cover letter, and a letter from the scholar who has nominated the candidate. Materials from both emerging scholars will be subject to rigorous review and held to high standards, but the committee will acknowledge and take into account potential differences between emerging and early career scholars. 

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