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Alison Soutar
Alison Soutar is RNLD's Education Officer. Alison has been involved in language teaching and training in a variety of capacities for a number of years. Her most recent experience has been in Wellington, New Zealand, where she has been involved in community-based training programmes with refugee and migrant communities as well as co-ordinating training programmes in the health industry. Alison has also been involved in language training in Latin America and has several years experience co-ordinating educational tours and university credit courses to diverse countries throughout the world.
Alison has a Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics in Language Endangerment Studies from Monash University and is working towards a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She has a particular interest in community-based language documentation, revitalisation and maintenance programmes in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Education
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (current)
Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics in Language Endangerment Studies, Monash University, 2010
Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), RMIT English Worldwide, 2005
Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics), Monash University, 2004
Relevant Work Experience
General Practice Education Programme Administrator, Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Wellington, New Zealand
Training Co-ordinator, English Language Partners, Wellington, New Zealand
English Teacher, English Training System, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Literacy and Language Tutor (various locations in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Latin America)
Senior Travel Consultant, Australians Studying Abroad, Melbourne, Australia
International Language Exchange Programmes
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad de Habana, Cuba
Español Interactivo, San Cristobal de las casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Accord Ecole de Langues, Paris, France
Centre de Rencontres et d’Echanges Internationaux du Pacifique (CREIPAC), New Caledonia
Oyabe Junior High School, Japan
Contact
Alison will usually be available in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Email asoutar[@]rnld.org