Associate ProfessorRod Neilsen

Associate Professor in Education (TESOL)

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

  • Associate Professor in Education (TESOL)
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • +61 3 924 45437 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

TESOL/EAL Pedagogy, Pedagogical Grammar

Expertise Summary
Language Teaching Teacher education Multilingual development Second language
acquisition, Intercultural aspects of language teaching
- Education
- Language

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ETL 705 Pedagogic Grammar
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ETL714 Language Teaching and Assessment
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ETL704 Innovation in Language Curriculum
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    English as an Additional Language (EAL) policy enactment in regional Australia
    Thi Phuong Thao Mai - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing Metacognitive-based Writing Instruction to Promote EFL Tertiary Students' Critical Literacy Skills
    Rahmat Agung Azmi Putra - School of Education
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Navigating Educational Transitions: A Longitudinal Narrative Case Study of Chinese Australian Students Transnational Experiences
    Guochan Wu - School of Education
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Towards a blended ecological pedagogy for advanced EAL academic writing
    David Ian Kasakeijan-Ross - School of Education - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    "Finding Myself in Someone Else's Land" Stories by Teachers of Literatures in English in Padang: A Postcolonial Framework
    Desvalini Anwar - School of Education - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Stimulated Recall: Unpacking Pedagogical Practice of Code-switching in Indonesia
    Yetti Zainil - School of Education - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Personality and English as a Foreign Language Learning in Aceh: A Sociocultural Approach
    Syarifah Dahliana - School of Education - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Interculturality and Secondary History Education: A study of contemporary history pedagogy.
    Kerri Anne Garrard - School of Education - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The cultural and educational impacts of study abroad in the context of TESOL programs
    Ali Al Yassiry - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Motivational Characteristics of Gifted and Talented Secondary English Learners in Hong Kong
    Paul Lip - School of Education - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Experiences of Chinese Learners of English in Sino-Australian Programs at Tertiary Level in China
    Yingmei Luo - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Language, culture, and identity: An intergenerational study of Iranian migrants' acculturation experiences in Australia
    Alireza Fard Kashani - School of Education - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    EAP teachers' conceptions of and interactions with professional development: A phenomenographic investigation
    Laura Gurney - School of Education - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identity and expression of selves in Iranian English-as-a-Foreign-Language classrooms
    Elham Mohammadi - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Collaboratively Processing Written Corrected Feedback through Co-Constructed Texts
    Nicholas Henry Carr - School of Education - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Dynamics of Identity: Japanese Language Learners and Discourses of Nihonjinron
    Zelinda Sherlock Dutta - School of Education - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Sociocultural Study of Identity Reconstruction Among Iraqi Adult Immigrant Learners in Australia
    Ali Al Hmedawi - School of Education - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Critical Thinking and Iranian International Students Academic Writing in Australia
    Haji Aboutorab Kaashi Hesaam - School of Education - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Complexities of Beginning English Language Teachers' Experiences in Aceh, Indonesia
    Risdaneva Risdaneva - School of Education - 2024