JSLW Award for the Best Graduate Student Papers at SSLW
The Journal of Second Language Writing (JSLW) Award for the Best Graduate Student Papers at SSLW honors outstanding graduate-student papers presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW). Sponsored by Elsevier and the Journal of Second Language Writing, this award celebrates emerging scholars whose work demonstrates originality, clarity, and strong potential to contribute to the field of second language writing.
Each year, two papers receiving the highest ratings from SSLW proposal reviewers and JSLW Editorial Team are selected for this recognition. Elsevier provides a monetary award of $250 USD for each of the two papers.
To be eligible, the paper must be authored solely by graduate student(s) with no faculty co-authors, and the proposal must be submitted to SSLW on time for the review cycle. Recipients must also attend the SSLW to present their papers.
The award is announced at the SSLW closing ceremony, and the monetary award will be sent directly to the corresponding author by Elsevier.
The JSLW editorial team and SSLW Organizing Committee congratulate the awardees.
2026 Recipients
To be announced
2025 Recipients
1st Place
Tomoko Oyama, Waseda University, Japan
“Genre-based pedagogy in the age of GenAI: Blending move-step analysis, teaching-learning cycle, and critical evaluation of GenAI output”
2nd Place
Valentina Guzman Polanco, The University of Melbourne, Australia
“The impact of collaborative and online planning conditions on the act of writing”
Honorable Mention
Che-Han Chen, Georgia State University, USA
“Which AI should we use? Comparison and evaluation of ChatGPT- and Claude AI-generated tasks for academic writing assessment”
Congratulations!