<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Below is a dissertation award opportunity from the Language Issues SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society. Best of luck!</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:22.02666473388672px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Language Issues SIG Dissertation Award 2014</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Language Issues (LI) Special Interest Group (SIG) is pleased to announce its 2014 Dissertation Award!  The award is open to dissertations that focus on educational language issues, broadly defined, in comparative and international education.  Dissertations will be reviewed based on the following criteria:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">1.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The dissertation’s relevance to current thinking in the field</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">2.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The degree of sophistication or innovation of the methodology used</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">4.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The dissertation’s social utility and/or its implication for policy</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Eligible dissertations must have been filed within an 18-month period prior to the LI SIG award’s extended submission deadline of February 15, 2014 (e.g., from August 15, 2012 to February 15, 2014).   Students in Ed.D. or Ph.D. programs are eligible and the applicant and/or the Dissertation Chair must be a current member of CIES.  The winning dissertation will receive $100.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Applicants should submit the following four documents to be considered for the award:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">1.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">A detailed abstract of no more than five pages along with a self-assessment indicating how the dissertation meets the above five criteria; both should be doubled-spaced with no author identification (for blind review)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">2.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">A title page (not counted within the page limit) with author’s name, address, institutional affiliation, telephone, e-mail address, and names of dissertation committee chair(s) and members</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">4.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">One letter from the Dissertation Chair recommending the dissertation for this award (this letter may be sent directly to the Committee at the e-mail address below).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">After the initial round of consideration, the two highest rated candidates will be asked to send the Committee a file with their entire dissertation. Awardees will be recognized formally at the LI SIG business meeting at the CIES Conference in Toronto, Canada, March 10-14, 2014.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Submission Information</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Please, submit the above documents electronically (as attachments in Word compatible files) with the key word “Dissertation Award Submission” in the subject line to:  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:cieslangsig@gmail.com" target="_blank">cieslangsig@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:red"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.8799991607666px;font-family:'Times New Roman'">by February 15, 2014.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Awards Committee at the above e-mail address.</span></p>
<div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Anna M. Farrell</span></div><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PhD Student</span><div>
<span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Comparative and International Development Education</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">330 Wulling Hall</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">86 Pleasant St SE</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Minneapolis, MN 55455</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cell: 612-599-4712</font></div><div><br></div>
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