ProfessorJohn Macalister

Prior to joining Victoria University of Wellington, John worked on ELT projects in Kiribati, Namibia, Thailand, Cambodia and New Zealand, as a teacher, teacher trainer, and course designer. He has also been involved in the Vanuatu Education Assistance Programme as a teacher trainer and in an English language teaching capacity-building project at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

In addition, he has worked on a variety of design projects in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, particularly Vietnam, Timor-Leste and Latin America. Interesting projects elsewhere include the design of English language curricula such as for the Marine Training Centre, Kiribati, and for the construction industry in Saudi Arabia.

He has served as both President and Treasurer of ALANZ, the Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand, and on a number of editorial boards. He remains on the boards of Language Teaching and Reading in a Foreign Language, of which he was previously co-editor.