Announcement
Along with our partners, the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and the Association for language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ), we are delighted to announce that the winner of the Penny McKay Award for 2025 is Dr Dean Ryschka for his doctoral thesis undertaken at the Queensland University of Technology and entitled Acculturation of English as an Additional Language (EAL) Students to Australian Secondary Schooling: Issues of Culture, Social Cohesion and English Language Learning.
Dean was supervised by Professor Karen Dooley, Associate Professor Nerida Spina and Adjunct Associate Professor Margaret Kettle.
You can read Dean’s abstract and thesis at QUT ePrints
You can read more about the award at the Penny McKay Memorial Award page on this web site.
First Call for Applications for the Penny McKay Award 2026
Applications for the Penny McKay Award 2026 are now open. For details, please visit Who we are – Australian Council of TESOL Associations