Magda Tigchelaar

Dr. Tigchelaar received her M.A. in French Studies from the University of Guelph and her Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Michigan State University. She specializes in second language writing, second language assessment, and second language teaching methods. She teaches French as a second language and language teaching and learning courses and conducts research and teaching scholarship in the following areas: 

• Genre-based second language pedagogy
• Corpus-assisted second language writing and teaching 
• Creating task-based language teaching materials  
• Self-assessment of functional language skills 
• Second language proficiency assessment