TESL niagara Distinction Award 2010
Dr. McGarrell is our inaugural recipient for our member of distinction award. Dr. McGarrell is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University and has been a member of TESL Niagara for many years. She is being honoured for her ongoing commitment to celebrating local research in TESL. For the last nine years, Dr. McGarrell has served as the co-editor (along with R. Courchêne) of the special issue of CONTACT with the refereed proceedings of the Research Symposium. She is also the co-author of the writing textbook “Writing for Results.”
Dr. Hedy McGarrell
Dr. Hedy McGarrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics. She has taught, presented papers and carried out research in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia.
Dr. McGarrell’s research interests include writing development in L2, applications of corpus linguistics, L2 language teacher knowledge, and TESL methodology.
Dr. McGarrell has served in many different roles both inside and outside of the Brock community since joining Brock University in 1988. Dr. McGarrell currently serves on several university committees. She has previously served as Graduate Program Director, as Chair of DALS, and as Director of the Intensive English Language Program (IELP).
Beyond Brock, Dr. McGarrell is a member of the Editorial Board and a frequent reviewer for several international journals. In addition, she has reviewed book manuscripts for publishers including Blackwell, Cambridge Press, Longman, Oxford Press. She is currently a member of the TESOL Publications Committee.