The penny McKay award
The Penny McKay Award for an Outstanding PhD Thesis is awarded annually. It is supported by ALAA, ACTA, and ALTAANZ.
Further information about the award and documents for submission are available via the links below.
Eligibility
The Penny McKay Memorial Award is awarded annually for a doctoral thesis submitted at an Australian university and passed in the preceding academic year. For 2016, theses submitted and passed between 12th August 2015 and the closing date below are eligible.
The thesis should be focussed on aspects of second/additional language education in Australian schools (including pre-schools), including language development and learning, curriculum, teaching, assessment or policy-making for Indigenous languages, community languages, foreign languages, Standard Australian English as an additional language or variety, and English as a foreign language.
The applicant must be a verified member of ALAA or their State/Territory ACTA affiliate or ALTAANZ.
Applications
Applications for the 2016 round are due on or before midnight EST on Friday 7th October 2016.
Applications should be submitted electronically to the ALAA Secretary, Dr Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Flinders University colette.mrowa-hopkins@flinders.edu.au
Applications should be in pdf format. If you are submitting more than one document, please make sure your name is included in each document.
Supporting the Award
The Award was established and is maintained from donations from individuals, professional associations and other institutions in Australia and overseas, and from the sale of Penny’s extensive professional library. These funds are invested securely as agreed by ALAA, ACTA and ALTAANZ according to the normal procedures governing such funds.
Your help is needed to maintain this Award which carries forward Penny’s lifelong commitment to language education that is grounded in both research and the insights of practising teachers.
To donate to the maintenance of this Award, please go to Make a Donation for further details.
Penny McKay Award 2016 Information
Penny McKay Award 2016 Application Form
Penny McKay Award 2016 Evaluation Criteria
Please note that the deadline for submissions is Friday 7th October 2016.
Further information about the award and documents for submission are available via the links below.
Eligibility
The Penny McKay Memorial Award is awarded annually for a doctoral thesis submitted at an Australian university and passed in the preceding academic year. For 2016, theses submitted and passed between 12th August 2015 and the closing date below are eligible.
The thesis should be focussed on aspects of second/additional language education in Australian schools (including pre-schools), including language development and learning, curriculum, teaching, assessment or policy-making for Indigenous languages, community languages, foreign languages, Standard Australian English as an additional language or variety, and English as a foreign language.
The applicant must be a verified member of ALAA or their State/Territory ACTA affiliate or ALTAANZ.
Applications
Applications for the 2016 round are due on or before midnight EST on Friday 7th October 2016.
Applications should be submitted electronically to the ALAA Secretary, Dr Colette Mrowa-Hopkins, Flinders University colette.mrowa-hopkins@flinders.edu.au
Applications should be in pdf format. If you are submitting more than one document, please make sure your name is included in each document.
Supporting the Award
The Award was established and is maintained from donations from individuals, professional associations and other institutions in Australia and overseas, and from the sale of Penny’s extensive professional library. These funds are invested securely as agreed by ALAA, ACTA and ALTAANZ according to the normal procedures governing such funds.
Your help is needed to maintain this Award which carries forward Penny’s lifelong commitment to language education that is grounded in both research and the insights of practising teachers.
To donate to the maintenance of this Award, please go to Make a Donation for further details.
Penny McKay Award 2016 Information
Penny McKay Award 2016 Application Form
Penny McKay Award 2016 Evaluation Criteria
Please note that the deadline for submissions is Friday 7th October 2016.
Past winners of the penny mckay award
2014:
Susan Creagh "A Foucauldian and Quantitative Analysis of NAPLaN, the category 'Language Background Other Than English' and English as a Second Language Level" (University of Queensland).
Julia Rothwell "Let's eat the captain! Thinking, feeling, doing: Intercultural language learning through process drama" (Queensland University of Technology).
2015
Jennifer Alford “Conceptualisations and enactment of Critical Literacy for senior high school EAL learners in Queensland, Australia: commitments, constraints and contradictions” (Queensland University of Technology).
Susan Creagh "A Foucauldian and Quantitative Analysis of NAPLaN, the category 'Language Background Other Than English' and English as a Second Language Level" (University of Queensland).
Julia Rothwell "Let's eat the captain! Thinking, feeling, doing: Intercultural language learning through process drama" (Queensland University of Technology).
2015
Jennifer Alford “Conceptualisations and enactment of Critical Literacy for senior high school EAL learners in Queensland, Australia: commitments, constraints and contradictions” (Queensland University of Technology).
