Dina Feitelson Research Award

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.

This award will be offered again in August 2025.

Guidelines

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Recipients

2025

Jackie E. Relyea, James S. Kim, Patrick Rich, and Jill Fitzgerald
Effects of Tier 1 Content Literacy Intervention on Early-Grade English Learners’ Reading and Writing: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Domain-Specific Vocabulary and Oral Language Proficiency. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(7), 1172–1195.

Past Recipients

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

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