Phonology, Literacy, Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics, Discourse Analysis, Theoretical Linguistics
I am an Instructor in the Academic Literacies Programme in the Faculty of Humanities and Education teaching Scientific and Technical Writing, Academic Writing for Research Purposes, and English for Academic Purposes. Currently, I am also the administrator of the Grammar Workshop, an LMS-based resource available to ALP students for improving the weak areas of their writing. My approach to education is student-centred, always endeavouring to decipher the need while functioning in the imparted values of the skilled exemplars who educated me. Furthermore, as a lifelong learner, research and its real-world applications hold particular focus. I have thus far conducted or participated in research in media language, theatre language, legal language, writing, accents and language attitudes, language and identity, choral sounds, and World Englishes.
When graduating A-Levels I was adjudged by blind review the First Place/ Grand Prize Winner of the Trinidad Guardian National Secondary Schools' Creative Writing Competition. Entering the world of work, I underwent formative mentoring in auditing and customer service in the financial sector by truly exceptional supervisors, managers, and peers. Subsequent to exploring my deep-seated interest in pedagogy in a year-long Pre-Service Teacher Training Programme in Secondary French (1st - Portfolio), a chance encounter with a brochure at an Open Day at the UWI St. Augustine Campus in 2002 saw me enroll in the Linguistics undergraduate programme the following year and earn a UWI Open Scholarship by regional examination the year after that. I continued my academic passions into graduate work at Cardiff University, Wales in Language Communication Research under National scholarship, and, thereafter, professional qualification as an Associate of the Trinity College London (ATCL). Today, my research activity centres around the linguistics of signed and spoken languages with special interest in discourse analysis, literacy, phonetics, and phonology.
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