Awards & Grants

Dina Feitelson Research Award   |   Est. 1997

The International Literacy Association (ILA) Dina Feitelson Research Award was established to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson. It is a US$500 award that recognizes an outstanding empirical study, published in English in a refereed journal, that reports on an investigation of aspects of literacy acquisition such as phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, bilingualism, home influences on literacy development, or cross-cultural studies of beginning reading. The results should have clear implications for instruction.

This award is sponsored through a generous donation from the Feitelson family.

Guidelines

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Recipients

2026

Amy-C-Crosson 
Michael J Kieffer 
Margaret G Mckeown  
William Nagy 

Amy C. Crosson, Michael J. Kieffer, Margaret G. McKeown, and William Nagy

Cross-Language Morphological Analysis Improves Academic Word Learning for Multilingual Adolescents. Scientific Studies of Reading, 29(1), 55–84.

Past Recipients

2025

Jackie E. Relyea, James S. Kim, Patrick Rich, and Jill Fitzgerald

2024

Amber Lawson

2023

Marianne Rice, Florina Erbeli, Christopher G. Thompson, Mary Rose Sallese, and Melissa Fogarty

2022

Seung-Hee Claire Son, Kirsten R. Butcher, Lauren Aimonette Liang; Kaja K. Jasińska, Mary-Claire Ball, Erin Curran, Fabrice Tanoh, Hermann Akpé, Shakhlo Nematova

2021

No award given

2020

No award given

2019

Dani Kachorsky, Lindsey Moses, Frank Serafini, Megan Hoelting

 

Complete list of past recipients

 

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