The Penny McKay Memorial Award is jointly offered by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) and the Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand (ALTAANZ). This award honours Penny’s contribution to research and development in second/additional language education.
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Penny McKay Award for 2024 is Dr Susanne Stanyer for her doctoral thesis undertaken at the University of New South Wales entitled Teacher assessment literacy: The relationship between language awareness and writing assessment behaviour, supervised by Emeritus Professor Chris Davison and Dr Michael Michell.
Many congratulations to Susanne and her supervisors on this outstanding record of achievement!
More information about the award can be found at