Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship | Est. 1998
This fellowship is a US$5,000 grant established to encourage and support reading research by promising scholars. Its special emphasis is to support research efforts in the following areas: beginning reading (theory, research, and practice that improves the effectiveness of learning to read); readability (methods of predicting the difficulty of texts); reading difficulty (diagnosis, treatment, and prevention); stages of reading development; the relation of vocabulary to reading; and diagnosing and teaching adults with limited reading ability.
This award will be offered again in August 2025.
Guidelines
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Past recipients
2024
2023
Mai W. Zaru, Southern Methodist University, Texas
2022
Brittany Finch
2021
Lori Bruner
2020
Xiaoning Wang
2019
Shih-Yuan Liang
For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.