Project Awards
In 2021/2022 we supported fourteen Teacher Association projects, in Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Guinea Bissau, India, Iraq, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
Click on the individual countries to see their projects.
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The Roger Bowers Teacher Participation Grants
Dr Roger Bowers was an influential figure in English language teaching for nearly five decades and was Chair of the Hornby Trust from 2007 to 2014. The Roger Bowers Teacher Participation Grants have been set up to celebrate his contribution to ELT and the work that he did in support of teachers of English world-wide.
The grants are dedicated to helping Teacher Associations widen participation in events that they have already planned (a conference, a workshop etc.) through subsidising the cost of attendance for teachers who would otherwise be unable to afford this.
The application process for 2023 is now closed.
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A.S. Hornby Dictionary Research Awards
The A.S. Hornby Educational Trust is pleased to announce a call for research proposals under the A.S.Hornby Dictionary Research Awards initiative (ASHDRA).
We support innovative research into areas of lexicography and dictionary use which will build on the pioneering contributions of A.S. Hornby within the field of English language education. Each year we fund original research that aims to produce clear practical benefits for learners of English.
ASHDRA can offer funds of up to a total of £15,000. Grants can be for either a single project or for smaller initiatives. Previous awards have ranged from less than £1,000 up to the maximum amount of £15,000.
The application process for 2024 is now open. The call for proposals and application form can be downloaded here. The deadline for receipt of applications is 15 May 2024.
To get an idea of the kinds of research we support, have a look at summaries and reports of previous ASHDRA projects which can be found below and in the right hand column.
Summaries and downloads of eight research reports are available below.
Agus Riadi, Incorporating linguistic landscape in a plurilingual dictionary to support students' translanguaging in Borneo under-developed region: a preliminary study Summary
Yan Yan Yeung, Supporting Chinese EFL learners' dictionary preferences Summary
Ngan Chinh Nguyen Le Piloting SemiMed—a mini semantic visualisation dictionary of semi-technical medical vocabulary Summary
Aisling O'Boyle, A Welcome Dictionary: refugee families using dictionary resources to support English Language Learning Summary
Thomai Dalpanagioti Integrating frame semantic resources into EFL instruction: Developing and piloting materials for enhancing learners’ metaphoric competence in EFL Summary
R. Vennela, Developing a Pilot English-Telugu bilingual pedagogic picture dictionary resource and teacher resource book for low resource ESL contexts Summary
Man Lai Amy Chi, Dictionary Literacy Training for EFL Teachers Summary.
2023 Award recipient
Dai Lingzhen, Improving Dictionary Skills of Teacher Trainees for Less-resourced Areas in China
2022 Award recipients
Dr Lorna Morris, The African Association for Lexicography (Afrilex): A pocket electronic bilingualised dictionary for primary school learners in South Africa
Dr Priya Mathew, Middle East College, Oman: A bi-lingual corpus-based physics dictionary for L1 Arabic undergraduates
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EURALEX 2022 CONFERENCE
A report on the conference
For a second year running, ASHDRA awardees had the opportunity to showcase their projects at the Euralex congress. Euralex is the leading international association for lexicography, and its conference series has been running since 1983. At last year’s conference — nominally held in Greece, but in the end a virtual event — there was a dedicated session for ASHDRA awardees, where previous winners Aisling O’Boyle, Agus Riadi, Yan Yan Yeung, and Janine Knight gave presentations about their projects using a version of Zoom. This was a technically challenging operation, with Expert Panel members Julie Moore and Michael Rundell (also appearing remotely) chairing the session and managing the Q&A that followed.
This year the conference was hosted by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany, from 12th to 16th July, 2022, and was ’live’ for the first time since the Covid19 pandemic. The conference included a ‘hybrid day’ — when delegates attending and presenting in person were joined by attendees from all over the world — and this was when our three ASHDRA representatives, who had won their awards in 2021, were invited to talk about their research and its progress. This time the format was simpler: the presenters sent in pre-recorded videos, and Michael Rundell, who was at the conference in person, chaired the session. Amy Chi (from Hong Kong, Chinh Nguyen Lee (from Vietnam but studying in Australia), and R. Vennela (from Telangana, India) all gave engaging and well-organised presentations. Summarising a complex project in an 8-minute video is quite a challenge, but our winners carried it off impressively. Their talks were well received by conference delegates (both in-person and virtual), and the session stimulated a lot of discussion. It also gave us the opportunity to raise awareness of the ASHDRA scheme ahead of the next Call for applications.
Euralex Congress 2021
The ASHDRA award scheme was showcased in a session at the Euralex Congress. Euralex is the premier international lexicography society, and has held conferences every two years since 1983. This conference (7-9 September 2021) was ‘virtual’, and we had a 75-minute slot in which to talk about the ASHDRA scheme. Michael Rundell, Chair of the Expert Panel which adjudicates ASHDRA awards, introduced the session with some background about Hornby himself, the Hornby Trust and its activities, and especially about ASHDRA and its progress since it was established in 2018. But the main event was the excellent presentations made by our four 2019-20 award holders, who explained the diverse and innovative projects they are pursuing. Their presentations were followed by a lively Q&A session, moderated by Julie Moore, another member of the Expert Panel.
The ASHDRA presentations got a really favourable response. There were almost 70 Euralex members in the ‘audience’ for the session, and many of them sent in positive and enthusiastic comments. One of our goals for the session was to raise the profile of ASHDRA in the dictionary community, and we feel confident that this was achieved. Many thanks to the four awardees - Janine Knight, Aisling O’Boyle, Agus Riadi, and Yan Yan Teung - who all gave excellent accounts of the interesting work they are doing, funded by the Hornby Trust.
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