TOEFL® Grants and Awards
TOEFL® Grant and Award Recipients
Listed below are past grantees and award recipients. For past recipients from more than 5 years ago, view Past TOEFL® Grant and Award Recipients (PDF).
| Year | Recipients | Academic Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Sheila Parveen Lallmamode | N/A | Saudi Arabia |
| 2024 | Nang Kham Thi | Taungoo University |
Myanmar |
| 2024 | Jehoson Jiresh | Christ Deemed to be University | India |
| 2023 | Linda Nepivodova |
Masaryk University | Czech Republic |
| 2023 | Yulia Cherdantseva |
University of Franche-Comté Bourgogne | France |
| 2023 | Art Tsang |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China |
| 2023 | Janar Abuova | AKFA University | Uzbekistan |
| 2022 | Oluyemisi Adebola Oladejo | Itolu Community High School | Nigeria |
| 2022 | Paul Murphy Joseph Serrani Alexander Nanni |
Mahidol University International College | Thailand |
| 2022 | Alper Sahin | Atilim Universitesi | Turkey |
| 2020 | Nuria de Salvador de Arana | Institut Joanot Martorell | Spain |
| 2020 | Valentin Uwizeyimana | University of Rwanda College of Education | Rwanda |
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Nicholas Glasson |
University of Bedfordshire |
| 2024 | Dylan Burton |
Michigan State University |
| 2023 | Maria Treadaway | University of Auckland |
| 2022 | Daniel R. Isbell | Michigan State University |
| 2022 | Scott E. Grapin | New York University |
| 2020 | Senyung Lee | Indiana University |
| Year | Recipient | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lyle Bachman | University of California, Los Angeles |
| 2024 | Micheline Chalhoub-Deville | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| 2023 | Jennifer Randall | University of Michigan |
| 2022 | Peter Skehan | Institute of Education, University College London |
| 2021 | Glenn Fulcher | University of Leicester |
| Year | Recipients | Academic Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Judit Kormos | Lancaster University | Investigating the test-taking processes, experiences and perceptions of candidates with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs) in the TOEFL iBT |
| 2024 | Nivja de Jong | Leiden University | Investigating dynamicity of fluency for valid oral language assessment |
| 2023 | Daniel Isbell Dustin Crowther |
University of Hawai’i | Extending TOEFL Essentials Test Scores to Academic Speaking: Investigating Test Taker Performance in the Target Language Use Domain |
| 2023 | Megan Montee Francesca Di Silvio Elyssa Sun |
Center for Applied Linguistics | The TOEFL Teaching Framework in China: Effective Application in EAP Courses |
| 2022 | Anthony Green | University of Bedfordshire | Relationship between TOEFL iBT and Academic Writing Practices in English-Medium Universities in South Asia: Case studies from Bangladesh, India and Nepal |
| Ram Ashish Giri | Monash University | ||
| Agnes Kukulska-Hulme | The Open University | ||
| Amol Padwad | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University | ||
| Rubina Khan | University of Dhaka | ||
| Saraswati Dawadi | The Open University | ||
| 2022 | Xun Yan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Comparing the perception and use of the TOEFL iBT Standard, iBT Home, and Essentials for higher education admissions: Evidence of concurrent and predictive validity |
| Rurik Tywoniw | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||
| 2021 | Nahal Khabbazbashi Parvaneh Tavakoli Edgard Emmanuell Garcia Ponce |
University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom University of Reading, United Kingdom University of Guanajuato, Mexico |
A Longitudinal Examination of English Language Improvement in a Mexican Higher Education Context using TOEFL ITP |
| 2020 | Sara T. Cushing | Georgia State University, United States | The Use of TOEFL in Admissions Decisions: Stakeholder Perceptions |
| 2020 | Ron Martinez | Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil | Exploring Proficiency Thresholds in EMI |
| Year | Recipient | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Stefan O’Grady | University of St. Andrews |
| 2023 | Benjamin Kremmel | University of Innsbruck |
| 2023 | Kristopher Kyle | University of Oregon |
| 2022 | Xun Yan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Year | Recipients | Academic Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Chia-Hsin Yin | The Ohio State University |
| Fatima Montero | University of Maryland, College Park |
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| Jieun Kim | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| Marina Melo Cialdini | Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) | |
Mateus Souza |
University of Limerick | |
| Meng-Hsun (Hunter) Lee | University of Toronto | |
| Sebnem Kurt | Iowa State University |
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| Shengkai Yin | Shanghai Jiao Tong University / The University of Melbourne |
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| Yichen Jia | Nanyang Technological University |
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| 2024 | Coral Yiwei Qin | University of Ottawa |
| Elisa Guggenbichler | Universität Innsbruck |
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| Jia Guo | Queen's University | |
| Jincheng Wu | University of Macau | |
Margarida Pato |
University of Bedfordshire | |
| Melissa Hunte | University of Toronto | |
| Mutleb Alnafisah | Iowa State University |
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| Shireen Baghestani | Iowa State University |
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| Shishi Zhang | University College London |
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Suet Sin Cheung |
University College London |
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| Takehiro Iizuka | University of Maryland, College Park | |
Xingcheng Wang |
University of Melbourne |
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| Zhiyuan Deng | University of Maryland, College Park | |
| 2023 | Ananda Astrini Muhammad | Iowa State University |
| Camilo Ramos Gálvez | Lancaster University | |
| Ping-Lin Chuang | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| 2021 | Susanne DeVore | University of Hawai'I at Mānoa |
| Yi (Laura) Tan | Georgia State University |
| Year | Recipients | Academic Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Monique Yoder | Michigan State University | How parents of young learner ELLs interpret and use their child’s standardized test score reports: Perspectives from parent stakeholders |
2020 |
Wenjun Ding | University of Bristol, United Kingdom | Exploring Cognitive Validity of Casual Explanation Speaking Tasks for Young EFL Learners in China |
2020 |
Myoungjin Kim | Seoul National University, South Korea | Orthographic and Phonological Vocabulary Sizes of Young Exploring Cognitive Validity of Casual Explanation Speaking Tasks for Young EFL Learners in China EFL Learners and Their Influence on Listening and Speaking Performance in TOEFL Junior Standard Test |
| Year | Recipients | Academic Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Okim Kang | Northern Arizona University | Young Learners’ Score Gains in the TOEFL Primary Tests and their English-Language Progressions in Various Contexts |
| 2020 | Benjamin Kremmel | University of Innsbruck, Austria | Does self-pacing in the TOEFL Junior Listening Test have an impact on the validity and accessibility of the test for candidates with different first language literacy profiles? |
| Year | Recipient | Country |
|---|---|---|
2023 |
Beatrix Price |
Hungary |
2023 |
Dilrabo Babakulova |
Uzbekistan |
2023 |
Thi Ha Do |
Vietnam |
2023 |
Valentina Canese |
Paraguay |
| 2022 | Burcin Kagitci Yildiz | Turkey |
| 2022 | Jirina Karasova | Czech Republic |
| 2022 | Toni McLaughlan | United Arab Emirates |
| 2021 | Andres Villalba | Argentina |
| 2021 | Ijobat Juraeva | Uzbekistan |
| 2020 | Michelle Cowans | Australia |
| 2020 | Ceren Kocaman | Turkey |
| 2020 | Suzie Ryu | Korea |