Indonesian student declaims Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ in Indonesian.

Nita (wearing hijab) with the other NAILA 2019 Awards Award recipients posing for a photo after the award ceremony, Melb 6 Dec 2019. Source: Courtesy: SCW.

Nita Novianti, a lecturer of English and Indonesian as a Foreign Language, current PhD student at the University of Tasmania and winner of the 2019 National Australia Indonesia Language Awards (NAILA) in the Wildcard category, talks about translating and declaiming in Indonesian, Dorothy Mackellar’s “My Country,” as her entry.

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Published 19 December 2019 10:03pm

Updated 20 December 2019 9:10pm

By sri dean

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Nita Novianti, a lecturer of English and Indonesian as a Foreign Language, current PhD student at the University of Tasmania and winner of the 2019 National Australia Indonesia Language Awards (NAILA) in the Wildcard category, talks about translating and declaiming in Indonesian, Dorothy Mackellar’s “My Country,” as her entry.

Nita Novianti with her husband and children at NAILA 2019 Awards evening in Melbourne, 6 Dec 2019. Source: Courtesy: SCW.

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