Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Mr Alistair Welsh

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Position Lecturer
Email alistair.welsh@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 522 71443
Campus Geelong
Location Waurn Ponds
Role and profile Alistair has extensive language teaching experience and substantial in-country experience in Indonesia. Alistair is a NAATI accredited Indonesian translator and has worked in that role for the Commonwealth Government in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. In 2005-2006 Alistair was on leave from Deakin and employed on the AusAID-funded 'Islamic Schools English Language Project' in East Java. He is currently Director of Deakin's in-country intensive Indonesian program, held in Malang, East Java at the Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
Teaching responsibilities Indonesian language units across all levels
Bachelor of Arts
Research interests Language teaching and learning
Intercultural understanding
Indonesian language
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Cocos Malay
Current research projects Alistair is currently undertaking doctoral studies in education. His focus is on the intercultural understanding of Australian university students who learn Indonesian.
Qualifications BA (Monash), Dip Ed (Monash), Grad Dip in App Ling (CDU), MA (Prelim) (LaTrobe)
Memberships MLTAV, VILTA.
Conferences Alistair regularly presents at conferences. Recent presentations have included ASILE, VILTA and TEFLIN conferences.
Additional URLs

In country - Indonesian program

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22nd April 2013