Grants Funded

January 1988 to October 1988        The linguistic evolution of written styles in Somali.                                                                     Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, U.S.C.  $11,007.

September 1988 to February 1991 Synchronic and diachronic relations among spoken and                                                              written varieties in Somali.  

 National Science Foundation. $89,106.  (#BNS-8811720).

March 1991 to March 1992            Extension to Synchronic and diachronic relations among                                                                  spoken and written varieties in Somali.                                                                  National Science Foundation.  $14,400.  (#BNS-9096258).

November 1990 to November 1993   Diachronic relations among speech-based and written                                                                     registers in English. 

 National Science Foundation. $162,408.  (#BNS-9010893; E. Finegan co-PI).

July 1991 to June 1992                   Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF                                                                               grant on Diachronic Relations in English.  $4,500. 

July 1992 to June 1993                   Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Supplement to NSF                                                                               grant on Diachronic Relations in English.  $8,000. 

July 1995 to June 1996                   Organized Research Grant, NAU -- Corpus-based lexical                                                                     knowledge acquisition.  $7,000. 

Spring 1996                                    Academic Computer Services Steering Committee Grant,                                                                NAU -- Lab for English Language Instruction and           Analysis. $10,770 (+ A&S College matching funds; F Stoller co-PI).

May 1993 to May 1996                  Computational tagging and grammatical analysis of the                                                           Longman/Lancaster English Language Corpus.  

 Longman Group UK.  $262,500.

May 1996 to May 1998                  Extension to Computational tagging and grammatical                                                            analysis of the Longman/Lancaster English Language                                                              Corpus.  Longman Group UK.  $18,000. 

Aug 1998 to June 2000                   Construction and Grammatical Tagging of the TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language Corpus.                                                                                Educational Testing Services. $400,000. 

May 2000 to July 2002                   Linguistic analysis of the T2K-SWAL Corpus to develop

                                                     diagnostic tools for listening and reading texts.

                                                        Educational Testing Services. $150,000. 

Aug 2002 to May 2005                   Multi-dimensional analysis of synchronic and diachronic                                                   register variation in Spanish.

                                                        National Science Foundation.  $150,000. 

                                                             (#BCS-0214438; M. Davies co-PI).

May 2007 to December 2008         The effectiveness of feedback for individual writing

                                                         development:  A meta-analysis

                                                         Educational Testing Services. $30,000. 

Sept 2010 to Dec 2010                   Collocational analysis of the Pearson International Corpus of Academic English

                                                         Longman/Pearson.  $20,000. 

July 2009 to May 2011                   Discourse characteristics of writing and speaking responses on the TOEFL iBT

                                                         Educational Testing Services. $120,000. 

July 2013 to Dec 2015                    A comparison of TOEFL iBT written task performance

                                                         with disciplinary writing proficiency

                                                         Educational Testing Services. $120,000. (R. Reppen co-PI).

August 2012 to August 2016          A Linguistic Taxonomy of English Web Registers

                                                         National Science Foundation. $332,000. (M. Davies co-PI).

January 2016 – Dec 2017                   Exploring the longitudinal development of linguistic complexity in advanced untutored settings.  

Educational Testing Services. $120,000. (R. Reppen co-PI).

July 2018 – Dec 2021                        A close inspection of the academic language used by K-3

                                                         students.  

Institute of Education Sciences (US Department of Education) $1,612,264. (NAU subcontract:  $289,098) (T. Spencer and R. Reppen co-PIs).